Cultivating Missions Awareness, Part Four
SENDING CHURCH ELEMENT 01: CULTIVATING MISSIONS AWARENESS The church becomes progressively aware of the lost world around them, both...
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The Upstream Collective 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!
Mike Ironside
- 6 days ago
- 4 min
Why Empower National Partners
One of the great joys of being a missions leader is getting to travel and see the work of God in the least-reached places of the world....
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Bradley Bell
- Sep 21
- 6 min
Cultivating Missions Awareness, Part Three
SENDING CHURCH ELEMENT 01: CULTIVATING MISSIONS AWARENESS The church becomes progressively aware of the lost world around them, both...
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Mike Ironside
- Sep 18
- 5 min
Lunch and Learns
At the end of Paul’s first missionary journey, there is a wonderful, descriptive paragraph on what Paul and Barnabas did as they returned...
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Larry McCrary
- Sep 14
- 3 min
Cultivating Missions Awareness, Part Two
Sending Church Element 01: Cultivating Missions Awareness The church becomes progressively aware of the lost world around them, both...
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Mike Ironside
- Sep 11
- 4 min
Why You Need a Sending Pipeline
Do your church’s programs have an end in mind? A sending pipeline provides a framework for evaluating your programs.
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Andy Jansen
- Sep 7
- 4 min
Cultivating Missions Awareness, Part One
Sending Church Element 01: Cultivating Missions Awareness The church becomes progressively aware of the lost world around them, both...
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Christian Townson
- Sep 4
- 4 min
Personalizing Your Awareness Strategies
“How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how...
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Larry McCrary
- Aug 31
- 4 min
Marketplace Workers: Fuel for Limitless Sending
Limitless sending from the global church for the glory of God among the nations? Yes, please! If that’s the goal, myriad pathways will be...
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Shirley Ralston
- Aug 28
- 5 min
Mobilizing Marketplace Workers in Your Local Church
As a returned global worker, I occasionally get this request from our church’s mission’s office: “We had a visit from someone about to...
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Hatley Hambrice
- Aug 21
- 3 min
Sending BAM Individuals from Your Church
How do you know if you are qualified and ready to practice business as mission (BAM)? Many members of our churches already have...
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The Upstream Collective
- Aug 17
- 2 min
Assessing Marketplace Worker Candidates
It is wise to assess members of your church who want to live and work overseas with intentionality.
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Sean German
- Aug 14
- 6 min
Marketplace Opportunities in Missions
“What do you mean I don’t have to choose between work and missions?” Michael* (name changed for security) was initially perplexed as I...
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Larry McCrary
- Aug 10
- 4 min
Global Professionals Can Reach the World for Christ
Let me tell you a little about Joe. Joe was a business student at a university in the U.S. He spent one semester studying abroad in an...
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Hatley Hambrice
- Aug 7
- 4 min
Using BAM to Impact Unreached Peoples
Business as Mission (BAM) is becoming a popular strategy in countries around the world today. BAM is a holistic ministry model that...
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Larry McCrary
- Aug 3
- 7 min
Don’t Quit Your Day Job: The Value of Marketplace Workers
The following article is a correspondence between our Executive Director, Larry McCrary, and marketplace worker Seth Kelly about his...
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Shirley Ralston
- Jul 31
- 7 min
Defining Key Terms: Marketplace Ministry
The Enduring Marketplace Author Neil Johnson defines the marketplace as "the forum through which human economic commerce is conducted."...
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Mike Ironside
- Jul 27
- 4 min
How to Communicate Missions Giving to Your Church Members
When you communicate and celebrate missions giving you communicate vision and priorities to your people.
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Ashlyn Portero
- Jul 24
- 5 min
How to Inform the Church on the Impact of Their Giving
We as church leaders want to see our people practice radical generosity. We want our churches to be intentional and wise in directing...
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Mike Ironside
- Jul 20
- 4 min
Four Church Giving Practices for Supporting Global Missions
The budget is one of the best ways to reflect the values of a church. Giving to global missions usually falls in one of four categories.
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