This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: The Long Decline Nobody Names in Rural Churches. This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: The Long Decline Nobody Names in Rural Churches. There is a decline that nobody preaches about in rural churches. It is not a scandal and …

This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: Teaching Kids to Pray in a Church With No Children’s Program. This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: Teaching Kids to Pray in a Church With No Children’s Program. A rural church with three children and no children’s director faces …

This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: Rural Churches and the Opioid Settlement Money. This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: Rural Churches and the Opioid Settlement Money. Settlement money from the opioid manufacturers and distributors is arriving in county budgets across rural America. The amounts are …

This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: The Church Parking Lot as a Third Place. This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: The Church Parking Lot as a Third Place. Most churches worry about what happens inside the building and ignore what happens in the space around …

This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: Small Church, Big Grief: Funerals in a Town Everyone Knows. This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: Small Church, Big Grief: Funerals in a Town Everyone Knows. In a rural church, the funeral is not an event the church puts …

This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: When the Hospital Closes: A Rural Church Stays. This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: When the Hospital Closes: A Rural Church Stays. The announcement comes in a town hall or a Facebook post: the hospital is closing. In a …

This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: The County Fair Is a Mission Field Most Churches Drive Past. This article provides a clear and direct answer to the question: The County Fair Is a Mission Field Most Churches Drive Past. For one week every summer the county fair gathers nearly everyone …