One of the most meaningful experiences of students’ lives is their introduction to the periodic table. The little blocks with numbers and letters revealed a complex world of elements and represented a doorway to the world of chemistry. In a similar way The Sending Church Applied — the followup to Upstream’s foundational book, The Sending Church Defined —is a periodic table of global missions for the local church. It reveals seventeen “elements” that make up what we call a “sending church,” and makes them doable for any church. The Sending Church Applied moves from the theological foundation of being a sending church to its practical application. After years spent working within and alongside local churches, authors Bradley Bell, Mike Easton, Larry McCrary, and Nathan Sloan have gathered their collective wisdom into a journey through the “Sending Church Elements.” Some of them include: Building a Strategy Developing Missionaries Providing Ongoing Care Receiving Missionaries During Reentry Whether you read through them in a linear fashion or focus only on topics of interest, these seventeen chapters (one for each element) will teach you how to send people on mission with the gospel in ways that will both change your church and the world.