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 Nations in Our Own Back Yard
Entrusting Mission Ministry to Lay Leaders
Resources for Cultivating Missions Awareness in Kids
The What and Why of Advocacy Teams: Nurturing and Supporting Sent Ones
A Church Re-Entry Example
Serving Sent Ones in Hard Places
On-Field Care: Prayer Is Not Just the Means to Do the Work—It Is the Work
Caring for Sent Ones in the First Year
A Liturgy for When a Loved One Is Ailing Back Home
Why Every Church Member Needs Glasses: Fostering a Missional Lens
Leading Your Church to Think About the Global Church
Missionary Prayer Is Missionary Care
Supporting Single Missionaries in the Wake of Covid
Lamentations as the Textbook for Newly Arrived Missionaries
How to Care for Sent-Ones Learning a Second Foreign Language
A Liturgy for Missionaries During the Holidays
Pray for Afghanistan and Haiti
Overview of Sending Church Element 12: Providing Ongoing Care for Sent Ones
Sent Identity, Part 2: What Do Sending Churches Do Differently?
Questions Leaders Should Consider While Preparing for the New Normal