Evaluating Sending Models/Partners

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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

Dec 12, 2022
3 min

Letting Go of Partners

In our previous blog post, “Year-End Partner Evaluations,” we gave a template for evaluating partners. What do you do if the evaluation...

Mike Ironside

Dec 5, 2022
3 min

Year-End Partner Evaluations

In October, our theme was partnerships. What agency we partner with, what local field workers we partner with, who we partner with to...

Choose Your National Church Partner Wisely

Ellen Livingood

Oct 31, 2022
4 min

Choose Your National Church Partner Wisely

The following is adapted from Your Focus on the World by Catalyst Services. This book includes guidelines on building church-to-church...

Jonah Fox

Oct 13, 2022
5 min

Establishing Ministry Partnerships

Establishing partnerships is one of the most important things a church missions leader will do in their role. For most churches,...

Together on Mission with God: Principles and Practices of Healthy Partnerships

Joshua Bowman

Oct 10, 2022
4 min

Together on Mission with God: Principles and Practices of Healthy Partnerships

Cross-cultural partnerships happen because they mutually submit to King Jesus. Here are principles and practices of healthy partnerships.

Together on Mission with God: A Definition for Partnership

Joshua Bowman

Oct 6, 2022
4 min

Together on Mission with God: A Definition for Partnership

Cross-cultural missional partnership is a kingdom-oriented relationship of culturally diverse groups of believers who share common values.

Fully Funded or Support Raised? The Pros and Cons of Each, Pt. II

Bradley Bell

Jul 11, 2022
6 min

Fully Funded or Support Raised? The Pros and Cons of Each, Pt. II

I have been a support-raised missionary. It’s pretty awesome. Here are some of the challenges, along with a few pleasant surprises.

Fully Funded or Support Raised? The Pros and Cons of Each, Pt. I

Bradley Bell

Jul 7, 2022
6 min

Fully Funded or Support Raised? The Pros and Cons of Each, Pt. I

Being a fully-funded missionary is pretty awesome. Here are some of the benefits, along with a few unpleasant surprises.