13-Maintaining Strategic Focus

Upstream Blog

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.

As we come to the end of the year, it’s a valuable time to reflect on the work God has done in 2023 and look forward to the work he will...

As a missions leader, you likely are having regular calls with your Sent Ones. These times are super valuable for catching up on their...

I can do real damage with something as simple as a screwdriver. Just a couple of weeks ago, I managed to get a screw jammed halfway into...

Christianity continues to blossom in the Global South.[1] Our missions strategies and methodologies, while remaining unyieldingly planted...

As we come alongside brothers and sisters around the world to engage in the missionary task, we need new terms and categories to describe...

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

After spending two years interning with Campus Crusade for Christ, and then joining the staff at a fast-growing, multi-site church, I...

Sally is a member of your church. She also tutors kids at a faith-based non-profit in your city. These four “characters”–Sally, the kids,...

God has called us all to remember our first love. Missionaries are no different in order to be effective for the message of the Gospel

The news lately has been bleak. A global pandemic, racial tensions, political division, environmental issues, hatred . . . the list goes...

The Sending Church can provide unique insight and encouragement to help the Sent-One live out the vision and strategy that is before them.

At a time when your lives may seem chaotic and in absolute upheaval, here are three truths to cling to for encouragement and comfort.

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

We should embrace missions as a grace-given role of joining God as his ambassadors in the mission he both initiated and will complete.

Here are a few questions to consider that might help us navigate, process, and prepare in crises.

The COVID-19 crisis has shifted our norms so fast that we struggle to keep up. Perhaps our entire society is going through culture shock.

By Content & Operations Manager, Dan Bush My mission team leader loved Nepalis. Even if we were in a meeting, he would drop everything...