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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!

Taking the Attitude of a Learner as You Prepare to Move Overseas

Larry McCrary

May 11, 20205 min read

Taking the Attitude of a Learner as You Prepare to Move Overseas

Those who plan to work overseas need to have a learner’s attitude and make changes in how they live in preparation for life abroad.

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?

How a Guru and a Televangelist from the 1980’s Disillusioned Majority World Christianity

Kyle Brosseau

Feb 17, 20205 min read

How a Guru and a Televangelist from the 1980’s Disillusioned Majority World Christianity

The proliferation of the prosperity gospel among Christians has probably come to be the most formidable crisis that missionaries face today.

Tammy Stayton

Dec 9, 20196 min read

Personality Matters to Missions

Why does personality matter in missions? Because people matter to God.

Matthew Hirt

Dec 2, 20195 min read

Discipling Children Toward Missions

There seems to be a correlation between children who receive missions education and those who later commit themselves to missionary service.

What Happens After “Here Am I. Send Me.”?

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.

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.

The Upstream Collective

Dec 24, 20182 min read

Christmas is About Mission

The celebration of Jesus' birth should remind us of the mission He embodied and shared with us.