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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.

As a returned global worker, I occasionally get this request from our church’s mission’s office: “We had a visit from someone about to...

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

Make the Most of Your Foreign Assignment Click here for part one of this article series. Engage in Marketplace Ministry If God has led...

This is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Holding the Rope: How the Local Church Can Care for Its Sent Ones by Ryan Martin, set to be...

Recently, I was on a personal retreat at a nearby monastery. With my Bible and journal in hand, I tiptoed away to the surrounding knobby...

“Does the sending church conversation unhelpfully exclude or deemphasize the universal church or the parachurch?” The Development of...

The local church, both its members and leaders, should be sending and supporting well for the promotion and advancement of the gospel.

We want to highlight some helpful resources from around the web. This is a mixed bag of resources about a variety of missions topics.

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