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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.

Maintaining healthy souls on reentry is a community effort that takes time and commitment.

Providing for the needs of the body lays the groundwork for rest and renewal of the mind, alleviating stress in sent ones’ reentry process.

Professional Christian counseling may be necessary for returned workers who have experienced trauma or levels of high stress on the field.

Debriefing helps ensure sent ones' continued health, resiliency, and well-being.

Reentry care is a multi-faceted endeavor that requires constant tending. Our attention to their care is key to health and longevity.

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

Consider how you can serve and love the Sent-Ones from your church as they make this difficult re-entry for a short time or permanently.

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 unique insight and encouragement to help the Sent-One live out the vision and strategy that is before them.

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.

Working hard to develop character prior to going overseas is best for the Sent-One and for the team receiving them on the field.

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.

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.

I noticed some common components about strong sending churches that enabled them to have such an identity.

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

What God impressed upon me the most on the Jet Set trip was how we are to love and care for our sent ones.