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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!

Healthy At Home: More Resources for Healthy Minds, Bodies, Souls, and Practical Needs

Shirley Ralston

Jul 1, 20211 min read

Healthy At Home: More Resources for Healthy Minds, Bodies, Souls, and Practical Needs

Here is a list of resources to further help you care for your sent ones' mind, body, soul, and practical needs.

Shirley Ralston

Jun 28, 20215 min read

Healthy at Home: Helping Hands

Relying on the local church for travel, lodging plans, and fellowship has long been the norm for those sent out to deliver the Good News.

Shirley Ralston

Jun 24, 20214 min read

Healthy at Home: Healthy Souls

Maintaining healthy souls on reentry is a community effort that takes time and commitment.

Shirley Ralston

Jun 21, 20215 min read

Healthy at Home: Healthy Bodies

Providing for the needs of the body lays the groundwork for rest and renewal of the mind, alleviating stress in sent ones’ reentry process.

Healthy at Home: Healthy Minds Part 2—Professional Christian Counseling

Shirley Ralston

Jun 17, 20213 min read

Healthy at Home: Healthy Minds Part 2—Professional Christian Counseling

Professional Christian counseling may be necessary for returned workers who have experienced trauma or levels of high stress on the field.

Healthy at Home: Healthy Minds Part 1—Debriefing

Shirley Ralston

Jun 14, 20215 min read

Healthy at Home: Healthy Minds Part 1—Debriefing

Debriefing helps ensure sent ones' continued health, resiliency, and well-being.

Healthy at Home: Five Ways to Provide Holistic Care for Returned Global Workers

Shirley Ralston

Jun 10, 20213 min read

Healthy at Home: Five Ways to Provide Holistic Care for Returned Global Workers

Reentry care is a multi-faceted endeavor that requires constant tending. Our attention to their care is key to health and longevity.

Four Types of Sending Churches: Missionary Care Sending Church

Mike Easton

May 3, 20213 min read

Four Types of Sending Churches: Missionary Care Sending Church

A Missionary Care Sending Church desires to make those they send feel loved, cared for, and accountable to what they are sent to accomplish.

Overview of Sending Church Element 12: Providing Ongoing Care for Sent Ones

Mike Easton

Apr 1, 20212 min read

Overview of Sending Church Element 12: Providing Ongoing Care for Sent Ones

The Sending Church can provide personalized care that keeps the Sent-One energized for the challenging work they endeavor upon.

Unlocked, Part 1: Encouragement for Moving Forward Out of Lockdown

Anonymous

Jul 16, 20207 min read

Unlocked, Part 1: Encouragement for Moving Forward Out of Lockdown

How do we walk through this pandemic together and come out on the other side in a way that honors and glorifies God?

Empower the Saints for the Work of Missionary Care

Matt Clark

Jun 29, 20205 min read

Empower the Saints for the Work of Missionary Care

We as missions pastors/leaders have the opportunity to equip lay members of our congregations to meet the needs of missionary care.

Four Phases of Unexpected Culture Shock in Our Current Crisis

Matthew Hirt

Apr 6, 20205 min read

Four Phases of Unexpected Culture Shock in Our Current Crisis

The COVID-19 crisis has shifted our norms so fast that we struggle to keep up. Perhaps our entire society is going through culture shock.

How the Local Church Can Support Single Women on the Mission Field

Anna Daub

Mar 9, 20205 min read

How the Local Church Can Support Single Women on the Mission Field

What can the local church do to support their single women sent ones while they are overseas?

Four REAL Challenges for Single Women on the Mission Field

Shirley Ralston

Feb 10, 20207 min read

Four REAL Challenges for Single Women on the Mission Field

This generation of single women thrive on relationships. They need support to stay healthy and guard against isolation and depression.

When Missionary Kids Return “Home,” Part Two

debbie4034

Oct 7, 20193 min read

When Missionary Kids Return “Home,” Part Two

By Parker McCrary Often, we look back on our circumstances as missionary kids (MK’s) and we realize how fortunate we were to see the...

When Missionary Kids Return “Home”, Part One

debbie4034

Oct 3, 20194 min read

When Missionary Kids Return “Home”, Part One

By Isaac Grace “Home” for MISSIONARY KIDS What is home? A place? A specific group of people, perhaps? Who can say, or nail it down to one...

Four Levels of Missionary Care: Part Three

Neal Pirolo

Jul 29, 20194 min read

Four Levels of Missionary Care: Part Three

BY NEAL PIROLO The local church has taken its place in identifying and nurturing the cross-cultural team, both those who go and those who...

Four Levels of Missionary Care: Part Two

Neal Pirolo

Jul 22, 20194 min read

Four Levels of Missionary Care: Part Two

BY NEAL PIROLO A solid foundation having been laid by the local church, let’s turn our attention to the least understood of the four...

Four Levels of Missionary Care: Part One

Neal Pirolo

Jul 15, 20195 min read

Four Levels of Missionary Care: Part One

By Neal Pirolo There is no doubt that the ministry of missionary care is multi-leveled and multi-faceted. It’s multi-leveled in the...

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...