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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.

I have many lingering impressions from forty years of missionary service and the privilege of leading the largest missionary-sending...

After twenty-three years of missionary work in Southeast Asia, I had a great deal of experience and insight into mission strategy, but...

When considering the Great Commission, is it prudent to entrust mission efforts to lay leaders? The missionary task is best accomplished whe

The leadership of those who have “been there, done that” often goes unquestioned, even in ministry settings. When you hear of someone who...

The role of advocacy teams has become increasingly vital to global missions and church planting as a means of caring for missionaries as...

I get most energized by being on the field with missionaries, but a close second is hearing from them while they are stateside. Walking...

Once while I was living in Uganda, I watched my Bible college students destroy an old termite mound. It looked to me just like a pile of...

The budget is one of the best ways to reflect the values of a church. Giving to global missions usually falls in one of four categories.

There are biblical and pragmatic reasons that giving to global missions is helpful for your church's budget.

As a missions pastor, these are ten things I have learned in my role as I have served my church.

We hope this liturgy written by Upstream's Bradley Bell is an encouragement to you.

Here are three reasons that we must be committed to language learning and disciple-making in the language of the heart.

I hope that we never let go of the strategic value of learning language as missionaries seeking to demonstrate that the gospel is for all.

Some missionaries go up to a mountain village to evangelize secluded cattle ranchers. For a day or two, these self-invited Christian...

I love the enthusiasm I encounter among aspiring missionaries. It drips from them like water from your hands when there are no paper...

Cross-cultural partnerships happen because they mutually submit to King Jesus. Here are principles and practices of healthy partnerships.

Cross-cultural missional partnership is a kingdom-oriented relationship of culturally diverse groups of believers who share common values.

Partnership is necessary because the gospel is universally relevant and provides the plan of redemption for sinners separated from God.

A few months ago, I had a conversation with the editorial director of one of today’s most highly trafficked Christian websites. I thanked...

In 2009, alpinists Fabrizio Zangrilli, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, and Simone Leorin stood at the base camp of K2, the world’s second tallest...