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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.

The Team Sending Church sends a group of people to one or more areas as a church-based team to accomplish a specific missionary task.

In this series of articles, I want to help your church, become the type of sending church God wants you to be.

If you’ve experienced lockdowns, disrupted lives, and are still experiencing uncertainty, we encourage you to consider these questions.

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

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

Intentionally invest in ongoing, reciprocal relationships with your missionary candidates, missionaries, and returning sent ones.

I noticed some common components about strong sending churches that enabled them to have such an identity.

To put it simply, the reason missionaries identify as sent from their local church is because it is the local church that sends.

BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LARRY MCCRARY Receiving new workers on the mission field (whether they be short-, mid-, or long-term) is one of...

BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LARRY MCCRARY Receiving new workers on the mission field (whether they be short-, mid-, or long-term) is one of...

I strongly believe that how missionary teams receive new workers is vitally important to the Great Commission task.

Ministry requires more than knowing the names and locations of streets and highways in your city. Observations need to be made in...

Ministry requires more than knowing the names and locations of streets and highways in your city. Observations need to be made in...

WRITTEN BY SUSAN MCCRARY Drawing from her years of experience, Susan McCrary speaks to the hearts of returning sent ones- identifying...

Written by Susan McCrary Drawing from her years of experience, Susan McCrary speaks to the hearts of returning sent ones- identifying...