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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.

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

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

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

As missionaries utilize digital media to reach people in their heart language and heart medium, they are marching in lockstep with history.

Leaving home is always emotional, especially during a time of global crisis. But crisis does not negate Jesus's Great Commission.

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.

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

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.

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?

Every aspect of being a Sending Church should be evaluated regularly.

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 personalized care that keeps the Sent-One energized for the challenging work they endeavor upon.

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

Commissioning encourages the Sent-One, highlights God’s heart for the nations, provides prayer, and cultivates missions awareness.

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.