If you’ve ever visited a mission agency’s website, you’ve likely seen the words, “Pray, Give, Go” offered as your options for involvement in missions. Most of the people who consider themselves to be “missions-minded” have decided to either pray, give, or go. The pray-ers tend to be diligent, watching the various prayer request channels (CompassionNet, [...]
I think we often make church much more complicated than it needs to be. What defines a church? Most denominations have their own definitions of church. Many mission organizations have documents on what defines a church. But I think sometimes we have the tendency to add things to the truest definition of church. I like [...]
We have outsourced the Great Commission. Outsourcing is normally done when a company needs something done by someone outside the company. For the company, it is usually cheaper, thus more effective, to do it that way. I have friends who outsource administrative work like payroll, an answering service, and so forth. The outsourced service is [...]
We’re now accepting entries for our Upstream Badge competition! Flex your Photoshop skills by creating a graphic that reflects your style while getting the word out that you are a member of the Collective. Submissions should be 150 x 150 px, and should relay the Upstream identity. By submitting your work, you grant permission for [...]
The Upstream Collective has a new blog. Yeah, we know that blogs are passé, and that we should be using Twitter and Facebook instead (we are using both, by the way – you can follow our Twitter stream @theupstreamC and our Facebook page.) But this isn’t just a blog. It’s a place where the conversation [...]
Recently, we were at Snow Hill Baptist Church in Tuttle, Okla. Their pastor, Todd Littleton, had invited us to help him lead his church in a time of missiological development and focus. Through a mini-conference, dubbed “The Church As Missionary,” we brought in some basic missionary training (stuff they already knew and were trying to [...]
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