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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.

Providing for the needs of the body lays the groundwork for rest and renewal of the mind, alleviating stress in sent ones’ reentry process.

Professional Christian counseling may be necessary for returned workers who have experienced trauma or levels of high stress on the field.

Debriefing helps ensure sent ones' continued health, resiliency, and well-being.

Reentry care is a multi-faceted endeavor that requires constant tending. Our attention to their care is key to health and longevity.

A Missionary Care Sending Church desires to make those they send feel loved, cared for, and accountable to what they are sent to accomplish.

The Sending Church can provide personalized care that keeps the Sent-One energized for the challenging work they endeavor upon.

How do we walk through this pandemic together and come out on the other side in a way that honors and glorifies God?

We as missions pastors/leaders have the opportunity to equip lay members of our congregations to meet the needs of missionary care.

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.

What can the local church do to support their single women sent ones while they are overseas?

This generation of single women thrive on relationships. They need support to stay healthy and guard against isolation and depression.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Content & Operations Manager, Dan Bush I just had surgery on my nose. When my pain medication wears off, I remember how agonizing the...

Season 2 || Episode 3 Gains & Losses in Missionary Care Upstream exists to help churches send locally & globally. We’re constantly asking...

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...