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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 best way to do missionary care is to put people on great teams. There are a multitude of reasons why missionaries leave the field:...

As a Sending Church, does it matter who you partner with? Pretty easy question, right? Of course it matters! However, as mission leaders,...

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

Paul's partnership with the Philippians and specifically Epaphroditus shows how missionary care serves the work of gospel proclamation.

How much should your church give to each of its mission partners? Consider these principles.

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

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.

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?

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

I strongly believe that how missionary teams receive new workers is vitally important to the Great Commission task.

Both the church and the missions organization have roles in developing missionaries, and they do well to work together.