Nearly all pastors sent to rural congregations were nurtured in larger urban congregations, and nearly always educated in urbanized seminaries. A wide culture gap between leaders and members often emerges among the church leaders in rural congregations. This book is designed to address and study the issues that arise when ordained and lay pastors are called or appointed to rural congregations. This handbook will orient seminary students and pastors who are doing ministry in rural congregations. It focuses on the nature of congregational life in such a setting, showing ways to deal with the issues and challenges specific to rural culture. The authors tell how to best engage in evangelism and mission in the particular locations in which these congregations find themselves. Rural Congregational Studies: A Guide for Good Shepherds outlines features of different rural settings that affect life and church life. Each chapter contains a section of "resources" (sidebars, ideas, programs, and so forth) that tie it to the chapter theme.

Rural Congregational Studies: A Guide for Good Shepherds

Religion & Spirituality

Jung, Shannon

Agria,Mary A.

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

Gardens are about growing and caring and learning new things every day. Gardening brings the generations together around the basic human instinct to grow. SECOND LEAVES, an unique introduction to gardens and gardening by Mary Agria, the best-selling author of TIME IN A GARDEN, is really three books in one. It is a storybook about gardens and growing for young children. It is an early reader and beginning How-To Garden Guide, and finally, with the help of Bonus Material (Grandma Says), it serves as a more challenging horticultural learning tool for the early grades.

Second Leaves

Children's Books

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Fiftytwo weeks of gardening columns from regional, bestselling author Mary Agria. Illustrated throughout, the book is a perfect addition to every gardeners' library. The columns originally appeared monthly in the Petoskey NewsReview, Petoskey, Michigan from 20072014. The author has a unique grasp of the connection of gardening to spirituality, and to life lessons learned from the garden.

Through the Gardener's Year: 52 Weekly Thoughts on Gardens, Gardeners and the Gardening Life

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

VOX HUMANA celebrates the transforming power of love, friendship, family and shared human work. As a young woman Charlise Howard left rural western Pennsylvania with music in her soul only to spend her career in Philadelphia as a job counselor helping others "find their voice." Force-retired at 59, Char feels spiritually and emotionally adrift as she moves back to her hometown of Hope. An encounter with a former classmate, Rob Sims now a priest assigned to the struggling Episcopal parish of her childhood, further shakes her assumptions about the choices that have led her to this point. At the keyboard of the historic parish pipe organ and as she helps spearhead a parish-based folk-weaving project to revitalize her dying community, Char learns to risk the love and fulfillment that have so long eluded her. VOX HUMANA is a powerful song of hope for those facing watershed moments in their lives and for generations struggling to reconnect with one another.

Vox Humana: The Human Voice

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Grief changes everything. Devastated by the loss of her beloved Adam, writer Eve Brennerman despairs of finding new ground upon which to rebuild her life. And then one wintery morning, Eve spots a rusty junker stranded outside the nursery she has inherited from Adam. Fate? Or coincidence? "Woman, Mother, Widow. All true and yet those words do not define me. My life is a work in progress." And thus Eve starts out on a journey to bloom where she is planted. "A tender, intelligent, heartbreaking and joyous celebration of the circle of life and the seasons." (Sharon Lovejoy, best-selling author and illustrator of garden and nature books.) Garden of Eve is the second novel in the Life in the Garden Series.

Garden of Eve

Lulu Press, Inc.

Award-winning garden writer Mary Agria tackles the challenge of multi-climate gardening in An Itinerant Gardener's Book of Days, a year-long journey through the world of gardens and gardeners. Sunbirds and Snowbirds from California to New York, Northern Michigan to the Desert Southwest will find humor, inspiration, technical tips and a fascinating glimpse into the history of gardens, calendars, ancient gardening customs and so much more in this thoughtful glimpse into the gardener's life. Author Agria was winner of the Michigan Garden Clubs' feature writing competitions in 2017, 2018 and 2019 for her column on gardening and spirituality that has run in Northern Michigan newspapers since 2006. Fifty-two of the columns were also featured in her previous work, Through the Gardener's Year. Her gardening novels-Time in a Garden [a regional best-seller in 2006], Garden of Eve, From the Tender Stem and Range of Motion [2019]-have also won her acclaim from readers and reviewers from coast to coast.

An Itinerant Gardener's Book of Days: Multi-Climate Gardening for Sunbirds, Snowbirds and all the Gardeners In Between

History

Americas

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