5 STEPS TOWARD GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT / January '12: The basic building blocks of a church's global involvement
OPERATION WORLD / December '11: Practical suggestions for using this world-changing prayer fuel
A COACH APPROACH TO MISSIONS PARTNERSHIPS / November '11: Powerful questions and active listening empower partners
VIBRANT PEOPLE-GROUP NETWORKS / October '11: Lock arms with others to multiply your impact
NEHEMIAH'S PARTNERSHIP SUCCESS / September '11: Practical lessons from an effective wall-building collaboration
EXPAND YOUR PERSPECTIVES / August '11: Using the Perspectives course to impact the whole congregation
GENEROUS LIVING / July '12: Advent Conspiracy & other ways the church can resource missions
FINANCING RETIRED MISSIONARIES / June '11: How can churches do right by their veteran workers?
MONEY TALK / May '11: A frank, church-agency discussion about financing missions
POWERFUL PRAYING CHURCHES--2 / Ap '11: More models and some great resources to encourage prayer
POWERFUL PRAYING CHURCHES--1 / Mar '11: Models and ideas to involve 21st century congregations in effective global intercession
NAVIGATING A STRATEGIC MISSIONS COURSE / Feb '11: Implementing crucial change in local-church missions involvement
A SCALE OF CHURCH-AGENCY RELATIONSHIPS / Jan '11: Defining 7 levels in the church-involvement spectrum
CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE/ Dec '10: Building cross-cultural skills in the local church
MISSIONARY ACCOUNTABILITY/ Nov '10: Wrestling with the church's challenge to practice it well
MEASURING AGENCY PARTNERSHIP POTENTIAL / Oct '10: 10 indicators that an agency is serious about facilitating church partnerships
MEASURE CHURCH MISSIONS POTENTIAL / Sept '10: 10 indicators of churches’ potential for global involvement
INCARNATIONAL CHURCHES / Aug '10: How The Upstream Collective is channeling younger church leaders' global involvement
SENDING NEW MISSIONARIES / July '10: Engaging your congregation in preparing and sending new workers
ABUNDANCE and the Relationship between Scarcity and Choice / June '10: An overview & questions on some thorny financial issues
MOBILIZE THE CONGREGATION / May '10: Excerpts from Your FOCUS on the World
SEND A SURVEY TEAM / Ap '10: Excerpts from Your FOCUS on the World
Navigating the Multiple Stages of Partnership / Mar '10: How phases and relationships impact partnership success
Effective Internships / Feb '10: Win/win internships that benefit church and prospective missionaries.
Kids Missions Camp / Jan '10: You can give children a life-transforming experience of missions.
Global Missions in New Church Starts / Dec. '09: Why missions passion is essential at the beginning of a congregation's life.
Second Career Workers-2 / Nov. '09: How to help Boomers/Builders thrive in missions service.
Second Career Workers-1 / Oct. '09: How to challenge Boomers and Builders to leave their settled lifestyle for missions service.
Swarming / Sept '09: Justin Long describes a new, tech-assisted approach to mobilizing volunteers.
Ministry Action Teams / Aug '09: How Irving Bible Church's 14 ministry action teams engage over 100 people in their areas of global passion
Welcoming International Visitors to Your Church / June '09: how good planning makes "reverse missions trips" mutually beneficial
Clarify Expectations to Create Healthy Partnerships / May '09: identifying the hidden assumptions than can scuttle collaborative efforts
Business as Missions: How Do Church and Agency Connect? / April '09: churches and agencies grapple with how to integrate BAM
Global Partnering Growing Pains -- III / March '09: challenges as the global partnership movement grows up
Global Partnering Growing Pains -- II / February '09: challenges as the global partnership movement grows up
Global Partnering Growing Pains -- I / January '09: challenges as the global partnership movement grows up
To Catch the Wind / December '08: why Western high-control leadership styles may not fit cross-cultural partnerships
Short-Term Team Safety Preparation / November '08: how to prepare short-term teams for potential crises in country
Two Routes to the City in Great Need / October '08: an allegory contrasting partnerships with traditional missionary sending
Partnership-Ready Churches--Part 2 / Sept '08: preparing churches for global partnership
Partnership-Ready Churches--Part 1 / August '08: how to assess if a church is ready to embark on global partnership
Revisiting Advocate Teams / July '08: developing advocates who bridge between church and missionary
Short-Term Ministry Ideas / June '08: dozens of practical services short-term mission trips can offer
The Home Assignment Triangle / May '08: clarifies home-assignment responsibilities of church, agency, and missionary
The Essential Facilitator Bridge / April '08: explains the crucial roles a facilitator plays in successful global partnership
Kids with Power / March '08: children can impact the globe by praying for the nations
Rapid Response Teams / January '08: national and international disasters offer unique ministry opportunities for the well prepared church
Restructuring Local Church Missions / December '07: options for reorganizing mission committees/teams to foster more involvement
Missionary Communication / November '07: helping missionaries improve their prayer letters, emails, blogs, and other communications
Partnership Essentials / October '07: shares the most essential elements of successful partnerships and most frequently seen partnership quagmires
The Church/Agency/Missionary Sending Triangle / July '07: clarifying sending tasks and how to best collaborate in the process
Making Process Serve Partnership / June '07: truly reciprocal partnerships require time for relationships and shared goals to emerge
Matchmaking / May '07: a checklist to evaluate compatibility of potential partners
Financing the Task / April '07: 21st century difficulties and possible solutions for funding God's global mission
Business as Missions / Nov '06: "BAM" basics and how God uses business to advance His kingdom globally
Bicultural Facilitators / Sept '06: the value of partnership facilitators who can bridge cultures
Refocusing Western Mission Agencies / June '06: perspective-bending questions for agencies adapting to changing global realities