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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.

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?

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.