Cross-Cultural Ministry

Upstream Blog

The Upstream Blog has a range of short articles on various topics around sending. Look through the tags to discover articles that meet your need.

I have many lingering impressions from forty years of missionary service and the privilege of leading the largest missionary-sending...

After twenty-three years of missionary work in Southeast Asia, I had a great deal of experience and insight into mission strategy, but...

Setting children up to thrive during a cross-cultural move

See our previous articles on the why and how of funding national partners or organizations and on how to find them . Vetting indigenous...

The importance of finding national partners is worth embracing the inevitable challenges for the sake of obeying the Great Commission.

Despite present barriers to entry in countries around the world, the internet provides access to people in the most unreached places.

What would you do if one of your children decided to become a cross-cultural missionary? The kind that wants to move to dangerous places...

As the church has moved south and east, the face of Christianity has changed.[1] If Western Christians want to work towards fulfilling...

Inviting international friends to Thanksgiving is one of the best cross-cultural missions opportunities available to American Christians....

A young man from a West African country asked me, “How can I be a missionary? Missionaries do not come from my place.” The only...

Immigration and migration represent a Great Commission opportunity for the church. Migration is not a new phenomenon. A casual reading of...

Have you ever heard of a “truncated icosahedron”? If not don’t worry—you’re not alone. I’m informed it’s a “bitruncated order-5...

We all possess a unique worldview that shapes how we perceive and understand the world around us. Scripture challenges all of our...

Today, everything is marketing. Everything about you can be monetized. Your social media accounts gather data to be sold to advertising...

This article is provided by guest contributor Ernest Goodman. It originally appeared under the same title on Missions Misunderstood and...

Upstream co-founders Larry McCrary and Caleb Crider are living in very different places: for Larry, Madrid, Spain; for Caleb, Richmond,...

Christianity continues to blossom in the Global South.[1] Our missions strategies and methodologies, while remaining unyieldingly planted...

As we come alongside brothers and sisters around the world to engage in the missionary task, we need new terms and categories to describe...

Discipleship 101: Pray, read your Bible, go to church, participate in cross-cultural training . . . Wait, what? Isn’t that the kind of...

I love the enthusiasm I encounter among aspiring missionaries. It drips from them like water from your hands when there are no paper...