You’re Not Just Giving.
You’re Sending.
Every dollar you give goes toward equipping churches, coaching leaders, and supporting missionaries around the world. When you partner with Upstream, you become part of a global sending movement.
Your Gift Shapes a Global Movement
When you give to Upstream, you’re helping shape the future of missions around the world. You’re equipping churches in dozens of countries with tools, training, and a biblical vision for sending well. You’re investing in a new generation of missionaries who are known, supported, and never alone. It’s exponential impact—one church at a time.
What Is a Sending Church?
A sending church doesn’t outsource missions, it owns it. From discerning a calling to preparing and sustaining workers on the field, a sending church is fully engaged in God’s global mission. But too often, churches feel under-equipped or under-resourced. Upstream walks alongside every church—large or small, local or global—to help them send well, with confidence and clarity.
Why “Sending Well” Changes Everything
When churches don’t know how to send, missionaries suffer. They burn out. They feel isolated. They’re spiritually under-supported. We believe no missionary should go alone—and no church should have to guess how to send. Healthy sending churches produce healthy missionaries, and that changes everything: for communities, for nations, and for the church’s witness around the world.
Church First. Missionary Second. Always Together.
Most sending orgs begin with the missionary. Upstream begins with the church. Before we ever send someone to the field, we help their church prepare to send holistically—with biblical conviction, practical tools, and long-term commitment. It’s not just different, it’s better. It’s the future of missions: church-led, relationally grounded, and spiritually sustainable.
Your Support Changes the Culture of Missions
When you give to Upstream, you’re not just funding a program, you’re fueling a movement. A movement where churches don’t sit on the sidelines, missionaries aren’t orphaned on the field, and the Great Commission is embraced by the whole body of Christ, around the world.
You’re not just giving. You’re sending.
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You’re not just giving. You’re sending.
Mail-In Check
To give by check, make checks payable to "The Upstream Collective". For missionary designated donations, please include the specific missionary's name designation in the memo line. Mail checks to:
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The Upstream Collective
P.O. Box 533
Louisville, KY 40201
*The Upstream Collective is a Section 501 (c)(3) organization. All gifts to The Upstream Collective are deductible to the full extent allowed by law as charitable contributions for federal and state income tax purposes. You will receive an official U.S. tax receipt sent by the end of January the following year.
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**The Upstream Collective operates on the basis of Donor-Advised Funding. It is our utmost goal to meet the Donor’s desire and intent to provide support to particular designations but, ultimately, according to the U.S. tax law, the responsibility for the disbursement and ministry use of funds is The Upstream Collective’s.
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