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Daily Archives: October 23, 2019

Seeing & Staying:
Rural Congregations and Rural Communities

Attendance, Buildings & Spaces, Civic Engagement, Clergy, Ecology Frame, Neighborhoods & Contexts, Resources Frame, Rural Congregations, Surveys, Theology Frame, United States & Canada, Walking ToursBy Nancy AmmermanOctober 23, 2019

Many students of congregational life focus their attention on religious gatherings in the city. It’s where the action is! Where there are exciting challenges and new opportunities. Where your innovations will get noticed and rewarded. But what about the thousands of gatherings in tiny places that we imagine are doomed to nothing but decline? Pastor…

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