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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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