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Small has Merit |
Access to Internet Needed |
Rural Health Providers Applauded |
Acts of God? |
Life Events Reveal Hidden Gifts |
Mentoring the Minister |
Tell the Children |
IRCA Discussion Forum |
Hydrofracking |
Water: Source of Life, Source of Death |
Mother-in-law Potato |
| Hampered Communications Rural areas need to be given the privilege and opportunity to freely use the communication tools that are available to their urban cousins... March 2011 |
| Delegate's Report on 2010 Alex Sim Rural Symposium January 2011 |
| Down-sizing Taking care of stuff... January 2011 |
| Congregational Care Committees Spiritual care for each other is central to the work of the church … November 2010 |
| An Aging Congregation Paraphrase of Psalm 132: 1-10. David thought that one temple would be sufficient to house the Lord. He would be amazed to see churches sprouting like dandelions in every town and city – and each one precious to its people. November 2010 |
| Prison Farms Terminated Government spurns teaching agricultural skills … |
| Antagonists or Partners Rural and urban people are dependent on each other in a healthy society … |
Return to Rural - It is Possible |
Sacred and Secular Interface |
Finding Drought Resistant Seeds |
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The drive toward corporate culture in India is resulting in a crisis in the countryside... |
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Rev. David Webber, who works in an extended rural parish in the Cariboo-Chilcotin Region of B.C., reports his thoughts to the Presbyterian Record after his trip to visit rural churches in New Zealand. |
The Business Side of Church Wise advice concerning tax matters. January 2010 |
| Before Agriculture Archaeologists discover ancient storage bins... November 2009 |
| What is Rural? Anything that isn’t “urban” falls under the rural community and rural church heading. Novermber 2009 |
| Building Blocks for Rural Ministry At occasional gatherings, rural church folk share ideas about how they can work in the local community. They may examine the following questions... August 2009 |
| Sharing in the Life of a Small Congregation Whether we are many or whether we are few, sometimes it is helpful to stand back and take a look at the variety of persons who are involved in the congregation of small communities. The diversity of purpose and interests give important clues about how community-life might proceed... August 2009 |