National Partners

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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.

See our previous articles on the why and how of funding national partners or organizations and on how to find them . Vetting indigenous...

The importance of finding national partners is worth embracing the inevitable challenges for the sake of obeying the Great Commission.

In our previous blog post , we delved into why funding national work is a powerful strategy for advancing God’s mission among the...

In late April and early May of 2015, the country of Nepal was struck by two devastating earthquakes, measuring 7.8 and 7.3 in magnitude....

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

One of the great joys of being a missions leader is getting to travel and see the work of God in the least-reached places of the world....

A young man from a West African country asked me, “How can I be a missionary? Missionaries do not come from my place.” The only...

Have you ever heard of a “truncated icosahedron”? If not don’t worry—you’re not alone. I’m informed it’s a “bitruncated order-5...

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...

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

In today’s connected world, churches, missions organizations, and missionaries work with partners from nations around the globe. Some of...

In a previous blog post, I defined cross-cultural missional partnership as a kingdom-oriented relationship of culturally diverse groups...

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

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