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Cultivating Missions Awareness
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Developing a Vision
Involving the Entire Church
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Evaluating Sending Models/Partners
Identifying Sent Ones
Developing Sent Ones
Commissioning Sent Ones
Getting Sent Ones Established
Providing Ongoing Care
Maintaining Strategic Focus
Inviting Sent Ones' Influence
Receiving Sent Ones During Reentry
Influencing Other Churches
Innovating as Sending Churches
Types of Sending Churches Series
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Upstream Sending

3 days ago
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.

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Interview with Nathan Sloan, Executive Director of Upstream Sending

The Upstream Collective

4 days ago
6 min

Interview with Nathan Sloan, Executive Director of Upstream Sending

We're excited to announce that Nathan Sloan will be the Executive Director of Upstream Sending. Here is an interview with him.

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The Upstream Collective

4 days ago
2 min

Introducing Upstream Sending

Local churches send missionaries. Here at Upstream Sending, we can help you send well. It’s kind of our thing.

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The Role of Theological Education in the Missionary Task

Matthew Hirt

6 days ago
5 min

The Role of Theological Education in the Missionary Task

The global church needs theological educators committed to missionary efforts and missionaries committed to theological education.

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Cross-Cultural Missional Partnership: Some Perils of Neglect

Joshua Bowman

May 17
4 min

Cross-Cultural Missional Partnership: Some Perils of Neglect

The one-sided reality of failed cross-cultural partnerships may lead to the following errors.

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Resource of the Week: Upstream Collective Cohorts

Mike Ironside

May 10
2 min

Resource of the Week: Upstream Collective Cohorts

Our desire is to see your church move to the next level of being a Sending Church. We can help you do that through our cohorts.

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Four Types of Sending Churches: Shotgun Sending Church

Mike Ironside

May 6
3 min

Four Types of Sending Churches: Shotgun Sending Church

Rather than thinking proactively or strategically, the Shotgun Sending Church is involved in whatever comes their way.

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Four Types of Sending Churches: Missionary Care Sending Church

Mike Ironside

May 3
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.

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Four Types of Sending Churches: Strategic Sending Church

Mike Ironside

Apr 29
4 min

Four Types of Sending Churches: Strategic Sending Church

Strategic Sending Churches are great at partnering with existing team leaders on the field and members that are not from their church.

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Four Types of Sending Churches: Team Sending Church

Mike Ironside

Apr 26
5 min

Four Types of Sending Churches: Team Sending Church

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.

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Introduction to the Four Types of Sending Churches

Mike Ironside

Apr 22
5 min

Introduction to the Four Types of Sending Churches

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

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Overview of Sending Church Element 17: Influencing Other Churches

Mike Ironside

Apr 19
3 min

Overview of Sending Church Element 17: Influencing Other Churches

As God works through your church, how might He be wanting your church to help other churches become sending churches?

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Overview of Sending Church Element 15: Receiving Sent Ones During Reentry

Mike Ironside

Apr 12
2 min

Overview of Sending Church Element 15: Receiving Sent Ones During Reentry

Consider how you can serve and love the Sent-Ones from your church as they make this difficult re-entry for a short time or permanently.

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Overview of Sending Church Element 14: Inviting Sent Ones' Influence

Mike Ironside

Apr 8
2 min

Overview of Sending Church Element 14: Inviting Sent Ones' Influence

By Inviting Sent-Ones’ Influence the church is able to see its blind spots and adjust its practices to align more to the heart of Scripture.

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Overview of Sending Church Element 13: Maintaining Strategic Focus

Mike Ironside

Apr 5
2 min

Overview of Sending Church Element 13: Maintaining Strategic Focus

The Sending Church can provide unique insight and encouragement to help the Sent-One live out the vision and strategy that is before them.

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Overview of Sending Church Element 11: Getting Sent Ones Established

Mike Ironside

Mar 29
2 min

Overview of Sending Church Element 11: Getting Sent Ones Established

Beyond flourishing personally, it is also important to help Sent-Ones live out the right rhythms for ministry from the start.

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Overview of Sending Church Element 8: Assessing Sent Ones

Mike Ironside

Mar 18
2 min

Overview of Sending Church Element 8: Assessing Sent Ones

The stakes are too high in global missions for the church to not take seriously their role in assessing potential Sent-Ones.

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Overview of Sending Church Element 6: Evaluating Sending Models & Partners

Mike Ironside

Mar 12
3 min

Overview of Sending Church Element 6: Evaluating Sending Models & Partners

A sending model in its simplest form is the mode in which the Sent-One will enter the country.

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Overview of Sending Church Element 5: Involving the Entire Church

Mike Ironside

Mar 8
2 min

Overview of Sending Church Element 5: Involving the Entire Church

Finding ways to help your entire church be involved in global missions will will make a real impact on the field for the sake of the gospel.

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Overview of Sending Church Element 4: Building a Strategy

Mike Ironside

Mar 4
2 min

Overview of Sending Church Element 4: Building a Strategy

Strategy brings guidance to our church's culture and narrows its focus towards sending people and resources to make real field impact.

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