The Upstream Team's Favorite Missiology Resources
There’s always more we could read, isn’t there? While there are endless books you could be reading, we wanted to provide an answer to the...
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UPSTREAM BLOG
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!
Larry McCrary
- Aug 25, 2022
- 4 min
How to Design a Mission Space in Your Church
The Sunday gathering is a great time to create mission awareness in your church. Assuming you are already using some graphics or slides...
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Bradley Bell
- Aug 22, 2022
- 4 min
Why Every Church Member Needs Glasses: Fostering a Missional Lens
I started wearing glasses in the fourth grade. The optometrist whispered to my mom, “He’s nearsighted in one eye, farsighted in the...
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Dave & Lorene Wilson
- Aug 18, 2022
- 6 min
Creative Ways to Cultivate Awareness, Pt. II
In part one of this series, we highlighted the unhealthy and often counterproductive use of emotions and reason in cultivating awareness...
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Dave & Lorene Wilson
- Aug 15, 2022
- 6 min
Creative Ways to Cultivate Awareness, Pt. I
After serving in the church as a missions pastor for more than twenty years, I am often amused when I reflect on the variety of failures...
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Anna Daub
- Aug 7, 2022
- 4 min
Leading Your Church to Think About the Global Church
The global church offers Western Christians hope in what feels like hopeless times; however, because many Western Christians do not see...
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Matthew Hirt
- Aug 4, 2022
- 5 min
Resources & Suggestions for Cultivating Missions Awareness in Your Church
Mission Vision Toolbox: Tools for Casting a Great Commission Vision in your Church I think most pastors have the desire for their church...
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Ryan Martin
- Jul 31, 2022
- 6 min
Cultivating Missions Awareness
A little over a year ago, my family and I transitioned churches. This was not the first time either my wife or I had sought a new church...
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Mike Ironside
- May 2, 2022
- 3 min
Involving the Entire Church in Global Missions
A sending church involves the entire church by clearly and consistently teaching its missions convictions, vision, and strategy. This is...
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Meredith Cook
- Aug 30, 2021
- 5 min
Why Everyone Should Be Friends with Missionaries
I'm convinced that everyone should be friends with a missionary—or at least have some kind of contact with a sent one. Here's why.
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Mike Ironside
- Aug 25, 2021
- 4 min
Tips for Creating a Global Missions Display
A global missions display validates your efforts in global missions and shows your members what you are doing around the world.
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