Getting Sent Ones Established

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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!

Three Keys To Witness as Worship: Evangelism in a Marketing-Weary World

Matthew Bennett

Feb 27
4 min

Three Keys To Witness as Worship: Evangelism in a Marketing-Weary World

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

Overcoming the Distance: Crossing Barriers to the Gospel

The Upstream Collective

Feb 20
2 min

Overcoming the Distance: Crossing Barriers to the Gospel

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

Three Reasons to Make Disciples in Local Languages

Matthew Bennett

Feb 16
4 min

Three Reasons to Make Disciples in Local Languages

Here are three reasons that we must be committed to language learning and disciple-making in the language of the heart.

Ashlyn Portero

Feb 13
5 min

Caring for Sent Ones in the First Year

When I served as an advocate for sent ones in my home church, there was a story I recalled often (and still do) that captured who I hoped...

Language Learning beyond Babel: The Biblical Redemption of Local Languages

Matthew Bennett

Feb 9
4 min

Language Learning beyond Babel: The Biblical Redemption of Local Languages

I hope that we never let go of the strategic value of learning language as missionaries seeking to demonstrate that the gospel is for all.

Getting Sent Ones Established—As Committed Church Members

Jason Apon

Feb 6
5 min

Getting Sent Ones Established—As Committed Church Members

Some missionaries go up to a mountain village to evangelize secluded cattle ranchers. For a day or two, these self-invited Christian...

Adventures with Larry & Caleb: What Are the Key Things That Help You in Contextualizing the Gospel?

The Upstream Collective

Nov 28, 2022
6 min

Adventures with Larry & Caleb: What Are the Key Things That Help You in Contextualizing the Gospel?

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

Training Sent Ones for Multiplicative Discipleship

Mike Ironside

Nov 10, 2022
3 min

Training Sent Ones for Multiplicative Discipleship

We should teach our future missionaries the principles of multiplicative discipleship no matter which church model they encounter.