Leading Rural Churches For Growth (L19)

Graham Dow offers advice to leaders of rural churches, focussing on the unique characteristics of a rural culture and how leaders can tailor their ministry to meet the needs of their context.

Although rural churches face a range of challenges—ageing congregations, overstretched clergy, high maintenance costs and limited facilities to name a few—they also have opportunities unique to their rural setting.

This study examines the pastoral nature of rural ministry and sets out ways in which churches can meet the culture and needs of their local context, shaping the rural communities of which they are part, and moving them towards the kingdom of God.

The Grove Leadership Series is a partnership between CPAS and Grove Books, offering fresh thinking and ideas to ensure the difference leadership makes is biblical, thoughtful and practical. Grove Booklets are fast moving explorations of Christian life and ministry: 'Not the last word ... but often the first'.