Tag: Developing rural church leaders

Discipleship, Gideon, and a Rural Kansas Church

Ministry Insights, Rural Interviews

Replace the torches with weekly meetings, accountability partners, and biblical devotions.
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Chi Alpha Students Launching Ministry in Rural West Texas Communities

Rural Interviews

What if students started finding jobs in small, unlikely places?
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The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations Book Critique

Book Review

Passion about where and what is led gives great value to the organization.
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Multiplication Begins With Us

Ministry Insights

This failure comes when they never trained those who could fill key roles in the church.
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Rural Leadership Development: A Critique of Pastoral Leadership Resources

Academic, Research and Papers

Ministry leadership development has neglected the rural ministry model for the younger generation.
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Ministerial Succession And Transition In Rural Churches: Challenges and Opportunities

Research and Papers

Rural churches would benefit from well-developed transition plans and discussions among their leade…
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A High Calling: Interview with Bryan Jarrett

Rural Interviews

By Joe Epley Unassuming. Overlooked. Unimportant. Disinteresting. At times, rural communities have...
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Rural Multisite in South Dakota: A Celebration of Change

Ministry Insights

Some rural pastors could not feasibly do multisite church, however, every rural pastor can learn to…
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Trends and Strategies for Churches and Ministry in the Sandhills of Rural Nebraska

Academic, Research and Papers

Read the Academic Article By Ronald L. Masten Partnership on purpose, spiritual fervency, and intentional outreach into the community will...
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Leadership Lessons Learned at A Small Country Church

Ministry Insights

I once pastored a church that was twice the size of the town it was in. Impressive! 20 people in to…
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Poured Out

Rural Interviews

The decade of faithful ministry Richardson gave to Licking, Missouri created kingdom impact beyond …
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