Cross-Cultural Missional Partnership: Some Perils of Neglect
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UPSTREAM BLOG
The Upstream Collective Blog is published two times a week and contains content from missions leaders, pastors, missiologists, and the Upstream team on a wide variety of topics pertaining to being a Sending Church. Leave us some comments or questions!
The one-sided reality of failed cross-cultural partnerships may lead to the following errors.
Matthew Hirt
- Oct 2, 2023
- 5 min
Building Healthy Multinational Teams
A young man from a West African country asked me, “How can I be a missionary? Missionaries do not come from my place.” The only...
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The Upstream Collective
- Nov 17, 2022
- 2 min
The Upstream Team's Favorite Missiology Resources
There’s always more we could read, isn’t there? While there are endless books you could be reading, we wanted to provide an answer to the...
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Joshua Bowman
- Oct 6, 2022
- 4 min
Together on Mission with God: A Definition for Partnership
Cross-cultural missional partnership is a kingdom-oriented relationship of culturally diverse groups of believers who share common values.
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Mike Easton
- Sep 13, 2021
- 5 min
The Sending Pipeline Part 1: Overview of the Sending Pipeline
The goal of a sending pipeline is to mobilize church members towards the missions vision and strategy that you have set before them.
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Ryan Martin
- Aug 9, 2021
- 5 min
Missionary Care Begins with the Local Church: A Look at 3 John 5-8
The local church, both its members and leaders, should be sending and supporting well for the promotion and advancement of the gospel.
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Matthew Hirt
- Jun 7, 2021
- 5 min
The Role of Theological Education in the Missionary Task
The global church needs theological educators committed to missionary efforts and missionaries committed to theological education.
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Mike Easton
- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
Overview of Sending Church Element 2: Establishing Missions Convictions
The process of establishing missions convictions begins with a church leadership team coming together and searching the Scriptures.
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Christy Thornton
- Jan 13, 2020
- 4 min
How the Doctrine of the Trinity Shapes Our Understanding of God’s Mission
Our understanding of the Trinity—God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—gives proper shape to our view of his mission.
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