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Suggested Resources for Missionary Development

Aug 13, 2020
2 min

Suggested Resources for Missionary Development

Editor’s note: Mike is the Director of Cohorts for The Upstream Collective. He is leading an online cohort this fall and next spring. If you’re interested in joining, click here to find out more information and to register. In my last two articles, I talked about helping missionaries attain emotional health and training them in multiplicative discipleship. With these ideas in mind, we have a few resources suggestions for how to help walk alongside a group of potential mission

Missions Resources from Around the Web

Aug 3, 2020
2 min

Missions Resources from Around the Web

Every week, we highlight resources from our site and around the web to help you think about missions, push the missions conversation “upstream,” learn what God is doing around the globe, help you learn how to lead your church to become a sending church, care for your sent ones, and much more. This week, we want to highlight some helpful resources from around the web. This is a mixed bag of old and new resources about a variety of topics in the missions conversation. The Great

Suggested Resources for Raising Families Overseas

Jul 30, 2020
1 min

Suggested Resources for Raising Families Overseas

Recently Susan McCrary taught about raising families overseas at our Upstream Helipad Training weekend. Susan and Larry raised both of their kids in Europe. She now works as a consultant in helping families with educational resources and schooling in a cross cultural setting. Here are some of her favorite books that she likes to recommend: Parenting Resources SHARE Education Services, 2015 Nicholas Brealey, 2017 ACSI, 1998 Bethany House Publishers, 2010 Crossway, 2014 Childre

Helpful Resources for Becoming a Sending Church

Jun 4, 2020
2 min

Helpful Resources for Becoming a Sending Church

Developing a vision for the Great Commission, raising up missionaries from within your congregation, creating a sending pipeline, providing missionary care…there is a lot involved with becoming a sending church. Over the last two weeks, we’ve talked about helping missionaries have a sent identity. You can find all three articles here, or download the free resource. Here is a list of other resources that you may find helpful as you take steps to help your church become a sendi

The Upstream Collective Training and Resources: New Online Format

Apr 30, 2020
2 min

The Upstream Collective Training and Resources: New Online Format

We believe that the local church has a critical role to play in God’s global mission—a role that is too often overlooked by churches, organizations, and missionaries. Over the last several weeks and months, we have seen many changes in the way we are able to continue ministering to churches and deliver training. In order to ‘love our neighbors’ and comply with social distancing, we are offering several of our training and resources in a new online format. These are designed t

Helpful Resources for Missionary Care from The Upstream Collective

Apr 16, 2020
2 min

Helpful Resources for Missionary Care from The Upstream Collective

I was talking with a friend last week the way I’ve been talking to all of my friends and family lately—over a video call. However, video calls and texting are always the way I talk to this friend because she lives on the other side of the world from me, where she serves as a missionary in a large urban setting. Like me—and most of the world —she’s been sequestered in her apartment for the last few weeks. All of my other missionary friends are in the same boat. As I receive th

COVID-19 Responses and Resources

Mar 26, 2020
2 min

COVID-19 Responses and Resources

There is no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone. Many have contracted the virus and many more are fearful of getting sick themselves or anxious that the virus may affect their family and friends. Businesses and schools have closed or at least altered how they operate. Many countries, and now cities in the US, have instituted shelter-in-place orders to try to stop the virus from spreading further. At this point, there have been many responses to the virus

6 Books You Should Read in 2020

Jan 6, 2020
3 min

6 Books You Should Read in 2020

It’s a new year, and that means it’s time for resolutions, lists, and commitments that may or may not be followed all the way to the end of 2020. But, as pessimistic as that last sentence may sound, it’s always good to review the year that has passed and consider what we desire to accomplish in the next. I, myself, tend to strive for the same things at the beginning of each year: to improve my spiritual disciplines, to exercise more (doesn’t everyone say that?!), and to read