Click below for individual articles in May2013 newsletter.
FAITH MATTERS
Problems May Become Opportunities
Recognizing how insights into creative change can be gifts from God …
Environmental Movement Can Learn From Religion
Student of the environment affirms the need to reach out to faith-based people when trying to solve environmental problems ...
Aging as a Gift
Older women help us to look on aging as a gift …
RURAL LIFE ISSUES
To Grow Greener Pastures, Build Better Networks
Rural communities can manage their own digital networks, thereby reaping the benefits of the Digital Revolution….
The Windsor Hotel, Buchanan
Where neighbours can be a valuable resource to each other, divisions create pain and loneliness...
Emphasis on Rural Medicine Training
Exposing medical students to rural medicine is about more than “solving shortages” for the availability of rural doctors ...
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS
The Cycle of Life
Developing a garden can be a study in sustainability…
Meditating on the Gift of Food
The Season of Creation gives us wonderful opportunity to examine in worship the gifts of agriculture that the Creator has given …
The Voice of the Earth
We must live by the assumption that what is good for the earth is good for us....
RURAL MINISTRY STORIES
The Bone Talker
A prairie community values one of its once-vibrant elders who apparently gave up on life.
CiRCLe M NEWS
Upcoming Courses/Training
Conversations in Indigenous Intercultural Ministry…
Qualitative Research Methods in Rural Settings…
Rural Community Crisis Intervention Training Webinars...
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Building Bridges to Reconciliation
Between Aboriginal and Settler Communities in the Wetaskiwin/Hobbema Area. May 16, 2013
Rural Church Leadership Workshop: Building a Team that Works
One-day events: May 28 to Jun 4, 2013
Prairie Centre for Ecumenism Summer Institute
June 10 - 13, 2013
CiRCLe M Rural Ministry Conference
February 2014
IRCA Conference
Summer 2014
LINKS
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An extensive listing of links to rural community and rural ministry sites
Tips on How to Live with Respect in Creation
Thoughts, facts and practical suggestions for living sustainably…
A New Resource for Rural Church Leaders
Free online library…
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