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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.

During my first missionary term in South Asia, I relished the opportunity to dive deep into the culture and begin learning the local...

In part 1, we went through some mistakes missionaries often make with language learning. Now let’s look at the missionaries who succeed...

Many missionaries start out motivated to learn and engage in the new language and culture around them. Unfortunately, those aspirations...

Jose Luis, his wife, Wendy, and their three small children are preparing to move to Africa next year to work with a mission organization...

There’s a lot of things in life that are really important but are also kind of boring: mowing the lawn, doing the laundry, filling out...

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

A turning point in our education came during a conversation with Upstream Collective about an element we lacked called Missions Convictions

Global Christians understand that they have to orient their life around God’s mission of bringing the Gospel to those who have not heard it.

September's sending church online training will focus on Creating a Sending Pipeline for your church.

While it can be said there are no perfect Sending Churches, we do see some common practices of healthy Sending Churches.

A global missions display validates your efforts in global missions and shows your members what you are doing around the world.

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

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.