About the Tent of Promise

The History of the Tent of Promise

"Australia First" were the words the Spirit of God spoke to Bishop Barry & Pastor Sandra Cunnington in the early 1990's. Since this day the Tent of Promise took shape with the Bible Panorama, a 1000 seat marquee, semi trailers and buses.

The ministry team traveled full time around Australia up to 2009, and part time since, seeing many thousands of salvations for Jesus.

Our Work

The Tent of Promise is a non-denominational work of reconciliation, equipping, calling and establishing the Word of God across rural Australia in support of local Churches. We have seen over 15,000 people make a decision for Christ and many set free, healed, encouraged, filled with faith and revived by the Holy Spirit across Australia.

After a 10 year recess as Senior Ministers of the Promise Faith Centre Church in Coolangatta, the Holy Spirit has again moved on Bishop Barry & Pastor Sandra to relaunch the Tent of Promise ministry to the Nation with a new shape and more flexible footprint.

Again, God's call of "Australia First" has mobilised the Tent of Promise back to Australia.

The Call back to the Nation

The Word of God will prevail across this nation of Australia. A faith revival is moving!

With the Bible Panorama and a team of believers, the Tent of Promise relaunched in Wilcannia in outback NSW in 2019. The Holy Spirit moved demonstrating power and change. In 2021 we were propelled back into the field with several outreaches in Toowoomba, the Gospel Music Festival, Gympie, Grantham, Texas, Inglewood, and Yelarbon.

The bondage shattering Power of God

After 16years of service under the senior ministers, Reverends David and Kristen Semmens are leading a team compelled by Jesus to now step up and step in, and be sent out amongst the nation of Australia to deliver His Word, bring salvation in the Name of Jesus, bring deliverance to those bound, healing to the broken, truth to a hard hearted and lost people living without hope and Holy Spirit fire to the Church.

To be Jesus' weapon against the works of the enemy, His mouthpiece to the Church and His tool in the harvest field of salvation.

To bring the time of refreshing across Australia by breaking up this unplowed ground.

Our God is a prophetic God and so we know, revival is coming and it will come through His People who carry the Holy Spirit!

Partner with the Tent of Promise

The Tent of Promise is back out on the road with short-term missions and currently rebuilding the equipment needed.

We will see the Gospel sweep back across our nation of Australia full-time under the fresh leadership of David & Kristen Semmens out in the field!

The Semmens family have sowed the first seed because they take Jesus at His Word, and joyfully obey the command to reach the lost. They stepped out and purchased a 12m decommissioned coach and are converting it to accommodation and equipment transport for the Tent of Promise.

They need further financial grace to complete the conversion by mid-2022 and get out on the road. If you too believe Jesus at His Word and know that Australia must be saved & revival sweep through the nation, then consider sowing your seed into this fertile soil too.

Meet the Leaders

Barry Cunnington

Senior Minister

Headquartered Toowoomba

From being a generational farmer to being called to the Lord's Harvest Field, Barry's apostolic anointing sees him operate in the equipping of ministers in the Promise Faith Centre Churches across Africa and in the Tent of Promise in Australia. With a strong gift of Faith, anointing to heal the sick and set the captives free, Barry has a strong grace in rightly dividing the Word of God.

Sandra Cunnington

Senior Minister

Headquartered Toowoomba

Receiving the prophetic word for the ministry, "Australia First", Sandra has been pivotal in the foundation of the Tent of Promise and it's longstanding work across Australia. With a beautiful teaching grace, Sandra ministers strongly to women from all walks of life.

David Semmens

Assistant Minister

Road Team Leader

With a passionate teaching gift, David burns brightly in firing up the church and has a great love for evangelism, apologetics and the Word of God. Walking in discernment and the anointing to set the captives free, David is 100% sold out for Christ. Let him loose in the Bible Panorama and he'll minister in there for hours!

Kristen Semmens

Assistant Minister

Road Team Leader

As a teacher Kristen's gifting strongly challenges people to move from everyday Christian to empowered and victorious Christian, who can then fulfill the purpose God has for them. Operating in discernment, deliverance and the gift of Faith, she has seen many times when God has intersected and changed the course of lives & circumstances.

What We Believe (in a nutshell!)

We are an evangelistic inter-denominational ministry, that helps us work with all Bible-believing denominations.
Our team are from churches of all flavours, and we have a heart to see greater unity in the body of Christ.
We believe the bible is the infallible Word of God.
We believe in one God expressed as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe in creation according to the bible
We believe that Jesus is coming again
We believe that the Holy Spirit is still active today and works with the believer to save, heal and deliver.