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I am heading to Japan in a few days. I am quite excited about this trip. In fact it is the first international trip for me in a year outside my time in Canada last Fall. I normally wait til the day before to pack but for some reason I decided to start putting things [...]

  At Upstream we are often asked by churches to help them think through how they can be more globally involved. With a large number of churches moving into urban centers, a common concern we hear is that there are glaring needs in their community. They want to know how they can invest even more [...]

This past weekend I was at Veritas church in Columbus, OH speaking at their Act Like Men conference. I’ve known Nick Nye, the pastor, for the past few years. In fact he came with us on one of our Jet Set trips to London and Paris. Veritas is a young church and I’m writing about [...]

Last week I was a part of a group that went to Central Asia. We visited Istanbul but also went on a tour of the seven churches of Asia Minor. You can read about those churches in the early chapters of the book of Revelation. It was really an incredible opportunity for us at The [...]

One of the reasons we lead pastors and church leaders from North America on our Jet Set trips is to expose them to a variety of partnership options. We want to see churches find ways to engage cross culturally. So we talk about what do healthy partnerships look like and how do you go about [...]

Michael Frost this morning said at “The Church in a Broken World” in Budapest that “to whom you’ve been sent should shape your church, not where you meet”. I recall in my church planting days in the states that a big discussion amongst the launch team was finding that perfect meeting space. After all most [...]

I have been following online the jet set trip this week to Prague.  I have been super impressed with their conversations. I cannot wait to start hearing about Budapest where they are now. I pulled this one off of twitter. “Part of our problem is that we go into worlds in which we’re sent with [...]