We are hours away from beginning our trek to the other side of the ocean for The Upstream Collective’s very first Jet Set Tour in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain. This is the place where we’ll be posting blog entries as often as possible to chronicle our journey over the next several days. We look forward [...]
Archive | September, 2008
Idea: Subscribe to Foreign Media
A good way to help your church get a feel for a people group and it’s culture is to subscribe to a foreign newspaper. You may not realize this, but many newspapers from around the world are also printed here in the United States for the immigrant market (often in English). Since everything is published [...]
Near Cultures
The trouble with advocating for missions in “near” cultures (cultures that, at least at first glance look a lot like our home culture) is that it doesn’t seem as real. We’ve been programmed to think of missions as “suffering for Jesus” by going to share Christianity with people who really need it- poor, uneducated masses [...]
Why Europe?
Of all the places in the world, in the face of tremendous spiritual need, why would we focus on Europe? Aren’t France and Spain famous for their cathedrals? Wasn’t Germanic Europe the seat of Reformation thought? The truth of the matter is this: neither church buildings nor history save. The spiritual climate of Europe is [...]
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