Healthy at Home: Healthy Bodies
Providing for the needs of the body lays the groundwork for rest and renewal of the mind, alleviating stress in sent ones’ reentry process.
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UPSTREAM BLOG
The Upstream 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!
Shirley Ralston
- Jun 17, 2021
- 3 min
Healthy at Home: Healthy Minds Part 2—Professional Christian Counseling
Professional Christian counseling may be necessary for returned workers who have experienced trauma or levels of high stress on the field.
Shirley Ralston
- Jun 14, 2021
- 5 min
Healthy at Home: Healthy Minds Part 1—Debriefing
Debriefing helps ensure sent ones' continued health, resiliency, and well-being.
Shirley Ralston
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
Healthy at Home: Five Ways to Provide Holistic Care for Returned Global Workers
Reentry care is a multi-faceted endeavor that requires constant tending. Our attention to their care is key to health and longevity.
Mike Easton
- May 3, 2021
- 3 min
Four Types of Sending Churches: Missionary Care Sending Church
A Missionary Care Sending Church desires to make those they send feel loved, cared for, and accountable to what they are sent to accomplish.
Mike Easton
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
Overview of Sending Church Element 12: Providing Ongoing Care for Sent Ones
The Sending Church can provide personalized care that keeps the Sent-One energized for the challenging work they endeavor upon.
Anonymous
- Jul 16, 2020
- 7 min
Unlocked, Part 1: Encouragement for Moving Forward Out of Lockdown
How do we walk through this pandemic together and come out on the other side in a way that honors and glorifies God?
Matt Clark
- Jun 29, 2020
- 5 min
Empower the Saints for the Work of Missionary Care
We as missions pastors/leaders have the opportunity to equip lay members of our congregations to meet the needs of missionary care.
Matthew Hirt
- Apr 6, 2020
- 5 min
Four Phases of Unexpected Culture Shock in Our Current Crisis
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.
Anna Daub
- Mar 9, 2020
- 5 min
How the Local Church Can Support Single Women on the Mission Field
What can the local church do to support their single women sent ones while they are overseas?
Shirley Ralston
- Feb 10, 2020
- 7 min
Four REAL Challenges for Single Women on the Mission Field
This generation of single women thrive on relationships. They need support to stay healthy and guard against isolation and depression.
debbie4034
- Oct 7, 2019
- 3 min
When Missionary Kids Return “Home,” Part Two
By Parker McCrary Often, we look back on our circumstances as missionary kids (MK’s) and we realize how fortunate we were to see the...
debbie4034
- Oct 3, 2019
- 4 min
When Missionary Kids Return “Home”, Part One
By Isaac Grace “Home” for MISSIONARY KIDS What is home? A place? A specific group of people, perhaps? Who can say, or nail it down to one...
Neal Pirolo
- Jul 29, 2019
- 4 min
Four Levels of Missionary Care: Part Three
BY NEAL PIROLO The local church has taken its place in identifying and nurturing the cross-cultural team, both those who go and those who...
Neal Pirolo
- Jul 22, 2019
- 4 min
Four Levels of Missionary Care: Part Two
BY NEAL PIROLO A solid foundation having been laid by the local church, let’s turn our attention to the least understood of the four...
Neal Pirolo
- Jul 15, 2019
- 5 min
Four Levels of Missionary Care: Part One
By Neal Pirolo There is no doubt that the ministry of missionary care is multi-leveled and multi-faceted. It’s multi-leveled in the...
Susan McCrary
- Jun 24, 2019
- 2 min
Raising Kids Overseas—Who is Sufficient For This?
By Susan McCrary What is the secret to raising kids overseas? [Waiting with bated breath for an answer.] Don’t we all want it to fare...
Dan Bush
- Mar 27, 2019
- 4 min
A Broken Body: The Missionary’s Need For the Church
By Content & Operations Manager, Dan Bush I just had surgery on my nose. When my pain medication wears off, I remember how agonizing the...
debbie4034
- Oct 26, 2018
- 1 min
Gains & Losses in Missionary Care
Season 2 || Episode 3 Gains & Losses in Missionary Care Upstream exists to help churches send locally & globally. We’re constantly asking...
debbie4034
- Jun 8, 2018
- 4 min
Growing in Missionary Care: Shepherding the Sent One’s Soul
While living overseas I had the opportunity to develop a couple of young men to become pastors. One day I decided to take a break from...
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