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Several weeks ago I started collecting some research about what churches look for when they wish to partner with an overseas worker or team. I received a wide range of responses. I decided I would put this in several blog posts. I hope you find this to be helpful whether you are a church looking [...]

A few weeks ago I was able to go to a city for the first time. Saw some wonderful things. Met some outstanding people. I bought my Rick Steves book and he helped me out a lot. However, the best thing was talking to a person who lives there.  We had a ton of meetings [...]

I deal with a lot of partnerships regarding non-profits of various sorts from North America to other non-profits throughout the world. I see a lot of really cool partnerships. I see a ton of stuff being accomplished though these partnerships. I also see some partnerships that never quite make it. So I decided to make [...]

I recently asked the questions to quite a few cross cultural workers about what they look for in a partnership. Pretty good list. Here you go. Humility. Willingness to learn. Global minded. A helper. Missional thinkers. Self Starters. Follow Through. Being able to carry out what has been planned. An understanding  that a cup of [...]

I was able to go up to Hamburg, Germany this week for a couple of days. I spent some time with Steve Timmis who amongst various things leads Acts 29 Western Europe.  We love partnering with Acts 29 churches so it was good to catch up. It was a two day Total Church Conference. We [...]

This week I am on the west coast talking about Asia. We will be moving from place to place quite rapidly if all goes well so not a lot of time for posts.  I will keep post some updates on The Upstream Collective Facebook page. We are excited about working with some of our friends [...]

Last week I had the chance to sit down with Jason Dukes in Birmingham, Alabama. Jason lives in Florida but came there to this gathering. We were part of a mission conversation with a group  of church planters from Birmingham. I always enjoy time with Jason. I have enjoyed getting to know him over the [...]