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UPSTREAM BLOG
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
BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LARRY MCCRARY Receiving new workers on the mission field (whether they be short-, mid-, or long-term) is one of...
Larry McCrary
Aug 12, 20195 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...
Susan McCrary
Jun 24, 20192 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...
Larry McCrary
Jun 10, 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...
Dan Bush
Apr 29, 20193 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.
Larry McCrary
Apr 15, 20194 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...
debbie4034
Mar 11, 20195 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...
debbie4034
Feb 11, 20193 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...
debbie4034
Dec 3, 20183 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...
debbie4034
Nov 30, 20182 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...
debbie4034
Nov 5, 20185 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
Nov 2, 20183 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...
debbie4034
Oct 22, 20184 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...
debbie4034
Oct 19, 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...
Larry McCrary
Oct 1, 20183 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...
Derick Sherfey
Sep 21, 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...
Derick Sherfey
Sep 14, 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...
Derick Sherfey
Sep 7, 20185 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...
Larry McCrary
Jul 27, 20183 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...
Derick Sherfey
May 11, 20187 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...
debbie4034
May 4, 20184 min read
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