Join us on Wednesday, October 19th, for an About East Asia miniconference. The free event will be held in the LifeWay Tower from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM, and will feature Ed Stetzer and workers from East Asia. These get-togethers are like short, informal missions conferences with lots of practical ideas for how to select a [...]
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Upstream Report, Fall 2011
Each month, Upstream submits a report of our activity to those individuals, agencies, and churches to whom we are accountable. This long-form, text-based, private report includes schedules, statistics, financial activity, communications strategies, and information regarding personnel. In order to promote transparency and give our audience a better picture of what we do, we will release [...]
LIVE: Sending Church, Day 2
8:30AM Good morning! Excited about the discussion today… 8:45AM Jason Dukes talking starting the day by talking about being both Spirit-led AND strategic. Pray. Value and validate the people you equip. Celebrate when people get on mission. Get specific about how you’re equipping your people to plant the gospel. Investigate and relate. Rather than declare [...]
LIVE: Sending Church Roundtable
Follow along as we live blog the event, starting Monday evening at 6:00 CST. (refresh and scroll down for updates) 22 churches have been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion about the role of the local church in global mission. These practitioners have come together as peers to share ideas, best practices, and lessons [...]
The Strategy of the Spirit
What does it mean to be led by the Spirit on mission? At The Upstream Collective, we often talk about the importance of being led by the Holy Spirit. We believe this is how God administers the church’s efforts as missionaries. But how does the Spirit lead? For starters, the missionary impulse is of God. [...]
Google Translate
Anyone who spends an extended period of time in a non-English speaking country develops a “default foreign language.” You travelers know what I’m talking about. Eight weeks in Peru as a college intern, and now you’re stumbling your way through Istanbul’s crowded Grand Bazaar requesting, “permiso” and begging, “perdón.” You’re not really fluent in Spanish, [...]
Scripture Translation
The Seed Company was born out of Wycliffe Bible Translators to “accelerate Bible translation.” Translation is central to mission; though the Bible is the world’s most widely-translated book, there are many languages (2000 or so) that do not have scripture translations. Yet. Normally, translation takes years and thousands of man-hours. Accuracy and quality are of [...]
Epoch Missions Grant
Here at the heart of the Collective, we’re a bit conflicted about the subject of grant monies for missions. Sure, the idea of free money (if there ever is such a thing) sounds great. But we find that more often than not, money seems to hinder mission as much as is facilitates it. Nevertheless, we [...]
Cache-Cache Europe
We’ve always had a special affinity for the creative class in Europe and those who work to foster faith communities among them. During our Jet Set Vision Trip to London and Paris back in 2010, we got to spend a bit of time with artists who love God and want to share that inspiration with [...]
Meeting(Up) Online
Our friend, Kyle Goen, moved to Brussels, Belgium late last year. Back in May, he wrote a great post for us on preparing to move to another country. If you’re not already following his blog, you need to; there he offers great insight into the life of a family learning a new language and culture [...]
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