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Small Churches/Small Town Ministry/Rural Churches
Items listed include online resources and publications from New Life Ministries
as well as information from other web sites. New Life
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to from here. Such links are provided because we believe they offer valuable
resources for your use.
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What's 
Canadian
Rural Church Newsletter - added Sept 09 2008
Bonsai Church Growth:
Lots of little churches = kingdom growth - MinistryMarketingCoach.org/Chris
Forbes -
added May 13 2008
How Do You Build Community in the Smaller Church?
BuildingChurchLeaders.com/John Koessler - added Feb 15 2008
Open Letter to the Rural Church - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Susan Wise
Bauer - added Feb 15 2008
Small Church Manifesto - Newport News Daily Press/N Tippens -
added Jan 21 2008
Smaller Churches: Advantages & Disadvantages - The Discipler/Michael
Hines - added Oct 15 2007
MicroChurch Movement - as reported by NBC News - added Oct 15 2007
Send us your suggestions
for great online resources.
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NLM Online Resources
Bibliography on Bi-vocational/Part-Time Pastoral Ministry
Bibliography on Smaller Churches
Small
and Strong: What Makes a Healthy Small Congregation?
- New Life Ministries Report/Steve Clapp & Kristen Leverton Helbert
Small Churches–Part
1 and
Part 2 -
People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Smaller
Churches Network - especially check out the
E-mail Discussion Forum
Ten Outreach Ideas for Smaller Churches
- Ronald W Waters
NLM Publications
& Videos
New Vitality for the Small Church
- Kit/Jim Kinsey
Preaching,
Planning, and Plumbing: The Implications of Bivocational Ministry for the Church
and for You - Steve Clapp, Ron Finney, and Angela Zimmerman
NLM Seminars
New Vitality for the Small Church
- Jim Kinsey
Other Internet Links
Canadian
Rural Church Newsletter
Index of
Christianity Today Library:
Small Churches,
Rural Ministry, and
Small Town
Churches - previews of articles from past issues of Christianity
Today, Leadership Journal, and other products of Christianity Today
Index of Leadership Journal articles
on small churches, rural ministry, and small town churches
Index to e-documents -
from Gary Farley at the Pickens Baptist Association
Index of Rural
Church Ministry Articles - from the Center for Rural Church Leadership
Links
to Small Church/Rural Church/Small Town Ministry
Rural
Ministry Resources
- Center for Theology and Land
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Big
Events, Small Budget
- Outreach/Debra
Akins and Lindy Warren
Bonsai Church Growth:
Lots of little churches = kingdom growth - MinistryMarketingCoach.org/Chris
Forbes
Church
Seven Days a Week - Regeneration Quarterly (Spring 2000)/Rodolpho
Carrasco
Common Size, Uncommon Impact - Outreach/Shawn McMullen & Mary
Elizabeth Hopkins
Delafield - a new television documentary on the challenges of small
rural churches and their communities - ITVS
Developing
Vision in the Smaller Congregation - Enrichment (Winter
2000)/Steven R. Mills
Evangelism in the
Small Church - John R. Harrison/SmallChurch.net
Evangelism
Outside the Box - good idea! Interview with Andrew Irvine
Faithfulness in the Heartland
- Gospel and Our Culture Network newsletter (June 1998 - first article)/Gail Neal
Filling that
Empty Pulpit
- United Church Observer (Jan 2004)/Donna Sinclair
Great
Escape–Americans Moving to Small Towns
How Do You Build Community in the Smaller Church?
BuildingChurchLeaders.com/John Koessler
How Smaller
Churches Grow - Leadership (Summer 2003)/Gary McIntosh
In Search of Lake Wobegon
- National Geographic (December 2000) excerpt/Garrison Keillor of the
Prairie Home Companion
The Joy of
Rural Ministry - good idea! (Summer 2000)/Cheri DiNovo
The Kidderminster Principle - OutreachMagazine.com/Shawn McMullen
Make
Way for the Microchurch - FaithWorks.com/Nicki
Reno
MicroChurch Movement - as reported by NBC News
Mikros
- web-based newsletter for smaller churches
Moving
a Small Church into the Future - John R. Harrison/SmallChurch.net
New Era for Rural America - American Demographics (October
1997)/Brad Edmondson
Open Letter to the Rural Church - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Susan Wise
Bauer
Seniors—The
Future of the Church – next-wave (Dec 2001); reprint fromLeadership
(Summer 2001)/Kevin Powell
Small Church, Big Adventure - Outreach/Kathryn Lay
Small Churches Struggle to Grow Because of the People They Attract
- Barna Research
Small Rural Church Quadruples in Size - PurposeDriven.com/Alan Brandt
Small Church Manifesto - Newport News Daily Press/N Tippens
Smaller Churches: Advantages & Disadvantages - The Discipler/Michael
Hines
The Strong Little Church - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Christian Schwarz
What
I Wish I'd Known Before I Quit - Church Leader's Newsletter (Nov
08 2000)/Anthony Laird
What
Will Your Rural Church Look Like in the Future? - RFD+ Mailbag/Geoff
Leslie
When
Wal-Mart Moves In - Outreach (May-June 2003)/John M De Marco
Why I Love Small
Churches
- Christianity Today (Feb 8 1999)/Loren Seibold
Why Sam Goes
to Church - Leadership (Winter 2003)/Anne LaMott
Youth
Evangelism in a Rural Community - good idea! (Autumn 2001)/Pete
Molloy
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June 23, 2009
