THE ASSOCIATIONAL DIRECTOR OF MISSIONS/CHURCH STARTER STRATEGIST AS A MODEL OF LEADERSHIP FOR RURAL CHURCH PLANTING (A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
Georges' Book Rural Church Planting, A Missional Footprint. From Appalachia to the Adirondacks, from the Great Plains to the Pacific Northwest, the rural heartlands have specific needs every church planter should know. Rural Church Planting: A Missional Footprint outlines the essentials for anyone called to this critical mission field. The new book shares creative models and strategic practices from missiologists and practitioners serving across North America.
Rural Church Planting offers practical missionary principles that portend a futuristic design for field missionaries in the SBC and other evangelical movements. The book’s relevance and insight make it valuable not only to rural church planters, but to anyone desiring a true church planting movement in North America.
http://www.jdpayne.org/ Doctor JD Payne, missiological thinking interviews George Garner about the Rural Church Planting: A Missional Footprint book.
http://www.smallchurch.com They have some good things for smaller membership churches and pastor's helps.
www.rhma.org Rural Home Missionary Association. They have a newsletter called "Small Talk". Copy or download all of them. Look at the Core Values in the lst issue.
www.westernseminary.edu/ Western Seminary's Home Page. They have a course on "Shepherding the Small Church" in their Center for Lifelong Learning. It cost $25.00.
www.ruralchurch.us Pickens Baptist Association, Carrollton, Alabama. Dr. Gary Farley. Go to edocuments for access to wealth of materials that can be downloaded. Smaller membership church pastors; sociology of rural America; and much more.
http://ruralsociology.org Rural Sociology Society
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