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The Upstream Blog is published two times a week and contains content from missions leaders, pastors, missiologists, and the Upstream team on a wide variety of topics pertaining to being a sending church. Leave us some comments or questions!

The Incomplete Pass: A Call For Missionaries Teams to Receive Well, Part Three

Larry McCrary

Aug 12, 20195 min read

The Incomplete Pass: A Call For Missionaries Teams to Receive Well, Part Three

BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LARRY MCCRARY Receiving new workers on the mission field (whether they be short-, mid-, or long-term) is one of...

Raising Kids Overseas—Who is Sufficient For This?

Susan McCrary

Jun 24, 20192 min read

Raising Kids Overseas—Who is Sufficient For This?

By Susan McCrary What is the secret to raising kids overseas? [Waiting with bated breath for an answer.] Don’t we all want it to fare...

The Incomplete Pass: A Call For Missionary Teams to Receive Well, Part Two

Larry McCrary

Jun 10, 20193 min read

The Incomplete Pass: A Call For Missionary Teams to Receive Well, Part Two

BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LARRY MCCRARY Receiving new workers on the mission field (whether they be short-, mid-, or long-term) is one of...

National Ministry Partners: are they just co-workers or friends?

Dan Bush

Apr 29, 20193 min read

National Ministry Partners: are they just co-workers or friends?

By Content & Operations Manager, Dan Bush My mission team leader loved Nepalis. Even if we were in a meeting, he would drop everything...

The Incomplete Pass: A Call for Missionary Teams to Receive Well, Part One

Larry McCrary

Apr 15, 20194 min read

The Incomplete Pass: A Call for Missionary Teams to Receive Well, Part One

I strongly believe that how missionary teams receive new workers is vitally important to the Great Commission task.

On Relationships Between Sent Ones and Senders

debbie4034

Mar 11, 20195 min read

On Relationships Between Sent Ones and Senders

A guest article by Ron Bush Prompted by Caleb Alford’s article, “Sending Does Not Mean Letting Go,” published on January 28, 2019. I’ve...

An Intentional Strategy for Being on Mission (and Being Human)

debbie4034

Feb 11, 20193 min read

An Intentional Strategy for Being on Mission (and Being Human)

Recently we moved to another city in another country. Again. If you follow me on Twitter (@larrymccrary) you probably have noticed the...

Cultivating Missionary Skills | Bridges & Barriers

debbie4034

Dec 3, 20183 min read

Cultivating Missionary Skills | Bridges & Barriers

TODAY’S POST IS AN EXCERPT OF WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE TRADECRAFT WORKBOOK, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO PRACTICALLY GUIDE YOU & YOUR COMMUNITY...

Cultivating Missionary Skills | Exegeting Culture Part One

debbie4034

Nov 30, 20182 min read

Cultivating Missionary Skills | Exegeting Culture Part One

TODAY’S POST IS AN EXCERPT OF WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE TRADECRAFT WORKBOOK, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO PRACTICALLY GUIDE YOU & YOUR COMMUNITY...

Cultivating Missionary Skills | The How of Mapping Part Two

debbie4034

Nov 5, 20185 min read

Cultivating Missionary Skills | The How of Mapping Part Two

Ministry requires more than knowing the names and locations of streets and highways in your city. Observations need to be made in...

Cultivating Missionary Skills | The How of Mapping

debbie4034

Nov 2, 20183 min read

Cultivating Missionary Skills | The How of Mapping

Ministry requires more than knowing the names and locations of streets and highways in your city. Observations need to be made in...

debbie4034

Oct 22, 20184 min read

Cultivating Missionary Skills | Mapping

Nothing will accent the fact that you are an outsider in a certain place more than being lost there. This is particularly true if you are...

Cultivating Missionary Skills | Following The Spirit

debbie4034

Oct 19, 20183 min read

Cultivating Missionary Skills | Following The Spirit

Common sense is a part of discerning your church’s missionary call. The gifts of the people that comprise your local body should impact...

Larry McCrary

Oct 1, 20183 min read

Giving and Receiving Hospitality

By Larry McCrary, Executive Director, from his new book, The Marketspace: Essential Relationships Between the Sending Church, Marketplace...

Apprenticeship to Jesus Diagnostic | Part Three

Derick Sherfey

Sep 21, 20185 min read

Apprenticeship to Jesus Diagnostic | Part Three

By Derick Sherfey | Director of Content Strategy This year my family- along with a couple dozen others- made the thousand+ mile trek West...

Apprenticeship to Jesus Diagnostic: Part Two

Derick Sherfey

Sep 14, 20185 min read

Apprenticeship to Jesus Diagnostic: Part Two

By Derick Sherfey, Director of Content Strategy This year my family- along with a couple dozen others- made the thousand+ mile trek West...

Apprenticeship to Jesus Diagnostic: Part One

Derick Sherfey

Sep 7, 20185 min read

Apprenticeship to Jesus Diagnostic: Part One

By Derick Sherfey | Director of Content Strategy This year my family- along with a couple dozen others- made the thousand+ mile trek West...

Larry McCrary

Jul 27, 20183 min read

The Church as Missionary

By Caleb Crider, Co-Founder of Upstream When a Christian missionary leaves his home and enters a foreign culture in order to share the...

Derick Sherfey

May 11, 20187 min read

A Practical Tool for Mapping

Edited by Derick Sherfey, Director of Content Strategy If we’re going to be faithful sent ones, we must do the work to know the actual...

debbie4034

May 4, 20184 min read

Learning Dependence

By Derick Sherfey, Director of Content Strategy 2018 is a year I believe God is inviting me into deeper dependence. My family- alongside...