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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.

A Missionary Care Sending Church desires to make those they send feel loved, cared for, and accountable to what they are sent to accomplish.

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

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

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

Churches that actively identify sent ones are actively developing the leadership potential of their members.

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.

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

In short, we believe emotionally healthy spirituality is key to missionary flourishing and longevity.

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.

Multisite churches have massive, often untapped potential for global missions. Check out these resources for multisite missions leaders.

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

Isaiah 6:8 has been formative in our call to missions. But in Acts 13 we see a description of a church’s important involvement in sending.

The process of seeking a holy ambition helps leaders guide men and women to figure out what God is calling them to do.