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Churches and Rural Healthcare
29 Apr 2024
In this episode, Allen Stanton, author or Reclaiming Rural returns alongside Sidney Everhart to discuss how they've seen churches help their members and their communities stay healthy.
Where City Churches and Rural Churches Meet
15 Apr 2024
Robert Frazier discusses the difference between being a "small" church and a "micro" church. He provides new insight into how churches of all sizes can approach discipleship and the unique strengths small and rural churches have.
Rediscovering the Spiritual Practice of Pilgrimage
Luke Edwards | 8 Apr 2024
In the small mountain community of Robbinsville, North Carolina sits a little church on the hill overlooking town. Robbinsville UMC is the only United Methodist church in Graham County, the...
We’re Not Training Our Pastor. Here’s Why.
Jeanette Staats | 2 Apr 2024
Our church is starting a new hiking initiative that may even grow into a new expression of Church. We’re so invested in the possibility we’re getting special training for it....
Why (Some) Churches Change and Others Do Not
1 Apr 2024
Patricia Batten provides encouragement and direction for rural church leaders doing their best with limited resources.
Holy Week: Five Crucial Reminders
Chris Morton | 25 Mar 2024
As Church Leaders, it’s easy to get caught up in executing events and programs and forget why we do things. But the significant moments of the Christian year are essential...
Rural Churches, Excellent Preaching
18 Mar 2024
Patricia Batten provides encouragement and direction for rural church leaders doing their best with limited resources.
Worship in the Wild: Five Stories of Church Outside
Chris Morton | 10 Mar 2024
It’s 70 degrees and sunny. After a long week of work, household chores, and childrearing, I have a choice: spend my Sunday morning sitting in rows inside or get outside,...
More Relational, Less Professional
4 Mar 2024
David Blackwell returns to the podcast to explore a more "relational" model of ministry.
Authenticity, Excellence, and Small, Rural Churches
19 Feb 2024
The Rural Renewal Podcast launches with an episode perfect for rural church leaders seeking to create meaningful worship gatherings within their means and manpower.
4 Lessons from a Small Church That Revolutionized an Apartment Community
Heather Jallad | 7 Feb 2024
“You have changed the atmosphere in this place!” the apartment complex manager told the pastor after three months of “Lunch Church” with the residents. A retired school teacher, Pastor Tim,...
How to Leave a Small Church Better Than You Found It
Jon Davis | 25 Jan 2024
Powerful lessons from a three-and-a-half-year, bi-vocational call to a small church in a small town.
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