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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Developing a vision gives importance to defining a clear, simple and compelling statement that draws your church members into God’s mission.

The process of establishing missions convictions begins with a church leadership team coming together and searching the Scriptures.

Missions awareness starts with you. You can begin creating awareness by helping those close to you understand God’s heart for the nations.

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

There is a lot involved with becoming a sending church. Here are some resources to help you.

Here are 4 ways our little church is seeking to continue cultivating a sending culture in this difficult season.

Many traditional missions teams can benefit from adding a BAM component to their strategy.

Our understanding of the Trinity—God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—gives proper shape to our view of his mission.

Often multisite churches have the personnel, resources, and influence to make significant impact in gospel advancement.