Grove City College Students Serve Rural Churches
Mikayla Gainor
For a second straight year Grove City College students are spending spring break serving and learning with rural and rust belt congregations.
Rural Ministry Connections
Rural Ministry Connections is the blog of the Project on Rural Ministry at Grove City College.
As its name implies, this forum is dedicated to connecting pastors, individuals, and organizations who care about the flourishing of rural pastors and churches to resources, ideas, and a larger community who share this common interest. At the PRM, we care about rural pastors. That’s why we are dedicated to fostering rural ministry connections that can resource rural pastors, amply their voices, and help them thrive along with the congregations and communities they serve. Thanks for joining the conversation!
Ordinary Time: Reflections on Life and Ministry within the Limitations of Time
Charlie Cotherman
Cultivating an understanding of time rooted in Scripture and the history of the church can help us flourish even in life’s ordinary moments.
The Badlands: Finding Life During Difficult Seasons
Nick Marlatt
How can we find life in the midst of difficult seasons of ministry? For one pastor, the answer involved rediscovering a few simple practices.
Introducing the Vitality Threshold
Dennis E. Bills
The vitality threshold presents small churches with a difficult paradox–churches grow best above the vitality threshold, but to break the vitality threshold, churches must first grow.
Guiding Churches Through Transition
Grace Leone
Pastor Jason Schepp works with rural churches in his region as they weigh the need for revitalization, transition, or closure.
What the Census Numbers Mean for Rural Communities and Churches
Grace Leone
The 2020 US Census drew attention to a growing rural exodus. What might these trends mean for rural communities and churches?
When the Tailwind Is Gone: What the Past Eighteen Months Have Taught Me About Ministry
Charlie Cotherman
The last eighteen months have been challenging for pastors and their congregations. Is there anything we can learn from it all?
On Being Sheep before Shepherds: Reflecting on Forty Years of Ministry
Bill Sukolsky
Pastor Bill Sukolsky offers some reflections for other pastors based on what God has taught him during forty years of rural ministry.
Project on Rural Ministry Hosts Local Pastors
Grace Leone
The Project on Rural Ministry’s annual conference returned this fall with a deepened sense that Christain colleges and local churches are better together.
Is the American Dream Dead?: A review of Alienated America by Timothy P. Carney
Nick Marlatt
Local congregations do more than many know to help folks in rural communities overcome alienation and despair.
PRM Student Interns Spend the Summer Serving Local Congregations
Grace Leone
For three Grove City College students, summer internships offered an opportunity to serve local congregations and grow in faith and leadership.
Wendell Berry and Marilynne Robinson: Membership and Wonder in Rural America
Collin Messer
A college English professor explores how these two contemporary authors are kindred spirits to all of us who live and labor in rural areas.
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Project on Rural Ministry
100 Campus Drive, Box 3042
Grove City, PA 16127
(724) 458-3897
office@ruralministry.org
Project on Rural Ministry
100 Campus Drive, Box 3042
Grove City, PA 16127
(724) 458-3897
office@ruralministry.org
Project on Rural Ministry
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Grove City, PA 16127
(724) 458-3897
office@ruralministry.org
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