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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!
David Wilson
Jan 20, 20225 min read
Questions to Ask a Sending Organization
What a Former Missions Pastor (Who Now Serves an Agency) Wishes He Had Known to Ask In scripture, we learn that the Church is being...
Mike Easton
Mar 22, 20213 min read
Overview of Sending Church Element 9: Developing Sent Ones
Working hard to develop character prior to going overseas is best for the Sent-One and for the team receiving them on the field.
Mike Easton
Mar 18, 20213 min read
Overview of Sending Church Element 8: Assessing Sent Ones
The stakes are too high in global missions for the church to not take seriously their role in assessing potential Sent-Ones.
Mike Easton
Mar 17, 20213 min read
Overview of Sending Church Element 7: Identifying Sent Ones
Churches that actively identify sent ones are actively developing the leadership potential of their members.
Mike Easton
Aug 13, 20202 min read
Suggested Resources for Missionary Development
In my last two articles, I talked about helping missionaries attain emotional health and training them in multiplicative discipleship....
Mike Easton
Aug 6, 20204 min read
Developing Emotionally Healthy Sent Ones
In short, we believe emotionally healthy spirituality is key to missionary flourishing and longevity.
Tammy Stayton
Dec 9, 20196 min read
Personality Matters to Missions
Why does personality matter in missions? Because people matter to God.
Larry McCrary
Nov 18, 20195 min read
What Happens After “Here Am I. Send Me.”?
Isaiah 6:8 has been formative in our call to missions. But in Acts 13 we see a description of a church’s important involvement in sending.
Ben Ward
Nov 11, 20195 min read
A Holy Ambition: Finding Your Pathway to Mission- Part Two
The process of seeking a holy ambition helps leaders guide men and women to figure out what God is calling them to do.
Jason Hunsucker
Aug 6, 20194 min read
How To Be Sent Well, Part One
By Jason Hunsucker From start to finish, both the missionary and the church must take responsibility in sending process. Jason Hunsucker,...
Anna Price
Jun 3, 20194 min read
Missionaries Are Not Superheroes: How the Hierarchy of Missions Hurts the Gospel, the Church, and th
The hierarchy of Christian faith—the one that puts missionaries as the closest to God—harms churches, missionaries, and ourselves.
debbie4034
May 13, 20193 min read
Sanctified For Mission, Sanctified Through Mission
BY Caleb Alford I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a...
Matthew Bennett
Mar 4, 20194 min read
Discerning a Call to Missions
Consider these questions when trying to discern if you're being called to missions.
Dan Bush
Jan 21, 20194 min read
Perfect Fear Casts Out Love: A Better Motivation for Mission
Snap … snap … snap … A missions leader stands before me, snapping his finger loudly, rhythmically – awkwardly, even – all the while...
debbie4034
Sep 28, 20181 min read
Missions & Marriage
Everything we do at The Upstream Collective is aimed at one goal: for every church to see themselves as a sending church and every...
Bradley Bell
Aug 10, 20184 min read
The Faithful Missionary: A Case Study in Missing the Point, Part One
BY BRADLEY BELL, DIRECTOR OF CONTENT DEVELOPMENT My junior year of college our campus ministry kicked off the year with a gathering...
debbie4034
Aug 6, 20184 min read
Building A Team || Part 2
In Friday’s post Jesse Eubanks, Director of Love Thy Neighborhood, described how he handles the challenge of building teams on mission....
Andy Jansen
Jun 25, 20185 min read
Developing Sent Ones: Their Stories Part Four
By Andy Jansen with Chris Nelson This is the last of our four-part series of interviews zooming in on the development stage of the...
Andy Jansen
Jun 18, 20184 min read
Developing Sent Ones: Their Stories, Part Three
Interview by Andy Jansen This series of interviews zooms in on the development stage of the Sending Church Pipeline. Developing Sent Ones...
Andy Jansen
Jun 11, 20188 min read
Developing Sent Ones: Their Stories Part Two
By Andy Jansen with Derick Sherfey This series of interviews zooms in on the development stage of the Sending Church Pipeline. Developing...
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