Are Rural Churches Actually Ready for the Growth They Pray For?
Many rural churches pray for renewal while remaining organized for maintenance. Acts 2 challenges congregations to ask whether they are actually ready for the growth they say they want.
This Is Bigger Than AI: Rural Communities, Infrastructure Renewal, and a New Trades Renaissance
The biggest rural opportunity in the AI era may not be the data centers themselves. It may be the larger wave of infrastructure renewal, trade work, and technical opportunity that AI is speeding up anyway.
Small Town Graduation Time. Now What?
Graduation season should not end with applause and uncertainty. Rural communities can do more to help high school and college graduates launch into adulthood with clarity, support, and practical direction.
Shared Rural Ministry Calling: Why Churches in One Area Need Each Other
\n Many rural pastors and church leaders know they cannot meet every need in their community alone. Even so, churches often keep functioning as if each congregation must carry the whole burden by itself. That…
The Rural Brain Drain: Nurturing Small Communities in the Face of Migration
Understanding the rural brain drain The rural brain drain describes a pattern that has reshaped small communities across the country. Young people leave for college, for careers, for military service, or simply for a different…
Embracing Technology: Reaching Rural Communities with the Gospel
Why technology matters for rural ministry Rural communities face real barriers to connection. Distance, limited broadband, and small populations make it harder to reach people with the gospel using traditional methods alone. But technology, used…
Reaching Hearts in the Heartland: Spreading the Gospel in Rural Communities
The Heartland Is Not a Mission Field Somewhere Else When most people think about evangelism, they think about distant places. Foreign countries. Urban centers. Places where the gospel has never been heard. And those places…
About the Rural ThinkTank Podcast and Website…
If you are new here, welcome. I did not expect the Rural ThinkTank to have the reach or number of episodes that it has, or the ideas to flow as freely as they have. My…
Rural ThinkTank Episode 45: Morey Chapel Church of Christ 1/17/21
This message was given 1/17/21 at Morey Chapel Church of Christ, near Westville, Illinois. Sources MinistryPlace.net Rural Think Tank
Lost in Translation?
When the Gospel Crosses Cultures You never know when God is going to drop something into your lap. Years ago, I had the opportunity to speak through a translator to a group of Bhutanese refugees…
