New Year’s Reflections from 2023
Join host Joe Epley as he walks through something praiseworthy, something challenging, and...
Incarnational Christmas with Joe Epley
Join our host Joe Epley as we discuss how and why to be incarnational in your community this Christmas Season. Scripture, history, and...
Loving the People in Front of You with Jim Loutzenhiser
Join us today as Pastor Jim Loutzenhiser shares about his ministry journey. Over the course of his life, he has worked as a pastor, a...
Ministry to People with Special Needs with Rebekah Burford
Join us this week as we talk to Pastor Rebekah Burford about her journey in rural ministry and her desire to minister effectively to people...
Pastoral Transition in a Rural Community with Alvin Koski
Join us as we visit with Alvin Koski today about pastoral transition, discipleship, and how to find...
The Challenges and Blessings of Longevity with Foster Beckstrand
Pastor Foster Beckstrand has been in Dazey, ND for 24 years. Over that span he was walked through the ebbs and flows of rural church life...
Planting Rural Churches Part 1 With Will Hampton
Join Pastor Will Hampton as he shares his journey with rural church planting. We cover topics today including raising up leaders, the value...
Bi-vocational Voices Part 6 with Tim Floyd
Tim Floyd is a pastor and a full time chaplain at a psychiatric hospital. Tune in as we discuss the...
Bi-vocational Voices Part 5 with Aimee Osterhout
Join us today as we talk with Pastor Aimee Osterhout about her journey in a rural community of 98 people! Today she tells us of the value...
Bi-vocational Voices Part 4 with Maynard and Brenda McCarthy
Join us today as we interview Pastors Maynard and Brenda McCarthy and hear about the lessons that bi-vocational ministry has taught them....
Rural Resource: The Forgotten Church Part 2, with author Glenn Daman
Join us today as we continue discussing Glenn Daman’s book, The Forgotten Church: Why Rural...
Bi-vocational Voices Part 2 with Steve McBrien
Join us today as we discuss being bi-vocational with Steve McBrien, pastor in Oswego, Kansas. Steve shares about how coaching has opened...
Bi-vocational Voices Part 1 with Garrett Freier
Join us this week as we hear from Garrett Freier, who spent 10 years in bi-vocational small town ministry as a youth pastor. Listen in...
Community Outreach Part 3 with David Bright
Join us today as we dive into how to meet the community in unlikely places. Pastor David Bright...
Rural Mindsets: The Good, the Bad, and the Godly part 3 with Gerad Strong
Gerad Strong was raised rural, has pastored rural churches, planted rural churches, and now helps other pastors do the same. Join us as we...
Discipleship Part 1: A Visit to Rural Kansas with Dwight Dozier
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Finding Joy in the Journey
The joy in rural ministry comes from embracing Paul’s encouragement on the placement of our focus
Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World Book Review
This book validates the church’s need for cultural sensitivity and will benefit those in mini…
Developing a Thankful Heart
While the world is discouraged and downhearted, believers look for reasons to rejoice.
Navigating the Unknown: From the Directors
How do Christ followers navigate the dark paths of the unknown? What should guide our response to t…
Rural Multisite in South Dakota: A Celebration of Change
Some rural pastors could not feasibly do multisite church, however, every rural pastor can learn to…
God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church By Brad Roth
By Rev. Joseph Epley Brad Roth’s 2017 work, God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the...
From Planted Seeds to Flourishing Fruit
Preparing the ground for fruitful ministry.
Threads of Hope
How one creative rural church impacted their entire community.
Dennis Parillo: A Cruise Ship Musician’s Testimony…
A firsthand story of how God used one man’s skills as an “instrument” for His glory Edited by Hope Mayes I have always been...
From Headlining Musicians to Rural Tennessee Pastors
Who would have guessed the same couple that stood on major cruise ship stages every evening as head…
“Not Your Ordinary Church:” an Extraordinary Church Movement Seeking to Reach an Unordinary Community
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