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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 10
- 4 min
Global Professionals Can Reach the World for Christ
Let me tell you a little about Joe. Joe was a business student at a university in the U.S. He spent one semester studying abroad in an...
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Bruce Mewbourne
- May 22
- 5 min
Providing Cross Cultural Opportunities Locally
Immigration and migration represent a Great Commission opportunity for the church. Migration is not a new phenomenon. A casual reading of...
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Anna Daub
- Nov 21, 2022
- 5 min
How to Do Missions in the Global South
Christianity continues to blossom in the Global South.[1] Our missions strategies and methodologies, while remaining unyieldingly planted...
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Bradley Bell
- Nov 3, 2022
- 5 min
So You Wanna Be a Missionary—Who Are You Discipling?
I love the enthusiasm I encounter among aspiring missionaries. It drips from them like water from your hands when there are no paper...
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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...
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Anna Daub
- Aug 8, 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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Bradley Bell
- May 16, 2022
- 5 min
Aligning Local and Global Missions Engagement
The following is an adapted excerpt from The Sending Church Defined. A Holistic Mission Think globally, act locally. Chances are, you’ve...
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Ryan Martin
- Feb 24, 2022
- 5 min
Reaching Oral Learners with the Gospel
If you stepped into my office, you could make two observations about me—I love to travel, and I love to read. I have collected many...
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Anna Daub
- Jan 31, 2022
- 4 min
Troubled Waters: Reasons International Partnerships Go Awry
In today’s connected world, churches, missions organizations, and missionaries work with partners from nations around the globe. Some of...
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Shirley Ralston
- Nov 29, 2021
- 6 min
Afghan Refugees: The Sojourners Among Us
HOU Arrival They stood together, surrounded by ten canvas bags, each marked with a name, probably Dari or Pashto. The bags contained...
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Mike Ironside
- Mar 8, 2021
- 2 min
Overview of Sending Church Element 5: Involving the Entire Church
Finding ways to help your entire church be involved in global missions will will make a real impact on the field for the sake of the gospel.
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debbie4034
- Aug 26, 2019
- 4 min
The Nations Among Us: What We’re Teaching Them About Worship
I stood in the afternoon worship service yesterday, listening to the large worship team express their love for Jesus. They were young,...
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debbie4034
- Jun 29, 2017
- 4 min
Invisible or Ignored: America’s Foreign Mission Field
This is a guest article by Ben Schroering. Something truly incredible is taking place. Unevangelized people groups from hard to reach...
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The Upstream Collective
- Sep 20, 2016
- 6 min
Refuge(e): Why Christians Must Respond to the Need of the Displaced and the Sojourners
THE FOLLOWING IS A GUEST POST FROM CHRISTIAN DOUGLAS. CHRISTIAN SERVES AS A GLOBAL MISSIONARY IN WESTERN EUROPE. The past two years have...
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