Missiology

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.

I have many lingering impressions from forty years of missionary service and the privilege of leading the largest missionary-sending...

After twenty-three years of missionary work in Southeast Asia, I had a great deal of experience and insight into mission strategy, but...

As the church has moved south and east, the face of Christianity has changed.[1] If Western Christians want to work towards fulfilling...

Upon arriving in South Asia, I began to embrace the challenging task of driving on a different side of the road with exponentially more...

Once while I was living in Uganda, I watched my Bible college students destroy an old termite mound. It looked to me just like a pile of...

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

There’s always more we could read, isn’t there? While there are endless books you could be reading, we wanted to provide an answer to the...

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

THE FOLLOWING IS A GUEST POST FROM JOSH BAYLOR (@JOSHBAYLOR). JOSH SERVES AS A CHURCH PLANTER IN DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY. (Continued from...

THE FOLLOWING IS A GUEST POST FROM JOSH BAYLOR (@JOSHBAYLOR). JOSH SERVES AS A CHURCH PLANTER IN DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY. (Continued from...

No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there is someone who hasn’t heard it once. –Oswald J. Smith Occasionally it hits me...

A few months ago, I had a conversation with the editorial director of one of today’s most highly trafficked Christian websites. I thanked...

In 2009, alpinists Fabrizio Zangrilli, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, and Simone Leorin stood at the base camp of K2, the world’s second tallest...

The following is an adapted excerpt from The Sending Church Defined. A Holistic Mission Think globally, act locally. Chances are, you’ve...

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

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

In the early 2000s I (Bradley) played an active role in a church planting movement (CPM). Within only a few years of that movement, tens...

I love the sending church. That’s why I’ve devoted my life to it. So why would I want to talk about the dangers of it? First, because it...

We want to highlight some helpful resources from around the web. This is a mixed bag of resources about a variety of missions topics.

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