06-Evaluating Sending Pathways/Part 3/3

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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.

In this series of articles, I want to help your church, become the type of sending church God wants you to be.

A sending model in its simplest form is the mode in which the Sent-One will enter the country.

The 21st century will likely need more—not less—BAM workers in order to continue to effectively engage the lost world with the gospel.

Many traditional missions teams can benefit from adding a BAM component to their strategy.

Many who have been excited about Business as Missions as the ‘strategy of a new era’ are finding it fraught with new challenges.

The Upstream Collective is committed to equip those desiring to live, work, and study overseas. That's where our Helipad training comes in.

Most pastors honestly don’t know where to begin in sending “non-traditional” workers overseas well. In today’s post, we share a recent...

Season 2 || Episode 4 Church Planting as a Marketplace Worker Upstream exists to help churches send locally & globally. We’re constantly...

Season 2 || Episode 2 How to Uniquely Care for Marketplace Workers Upstream exists to help churches send locally & globally. We’re...

By Bradley Bell, Director of Content Development So, this could be a terrible idea for an article. But here goes. I don’t know how to...

We sat down recently with a friend of Upstream to get deeper insight into the beauty of being called & equipped to serve overseas in The...

By Larry McCrary, Executive Director, from his soon-to-be-released book, The Marketspace: Essential Relationships Between the Sending...

By Larry McCrary, Executive Director, from his soon-to-be-released book, The Marketspace: Essential Relationships Between the Sending...

By Larry McCrary, Executive Director Today, Larry McCrary shares an excerpt from his soon-to-be-released book The Marketspace: Essential...

The following is an excerpt from our Executive Director, Larry McCrary’s, soon-to-be-released book The Marketspace: Essential...

The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Larry McCrary’s soon-to-be-released book, The Marketspace: Essential Relationships...

Upstream has always been a voice in the conversation of helping churches and organizations consider alternative pathways to mission. The...

Our Executive Director, Larry McCrary, corresponded recently with Melissa Fu to get deeper insight into the beauty of using your vocation...

With many alternative pathways to missions, churches can and should assess marketplace workers. Here are a few things to look for.

Both the church and the missions organization have roles in developing missionaries, and they do well to work together.