The Lord's Harvest and the Rural Church: A New Look at Ministry in the Agri-Culture

by Kent R. Hunter

Leading church growth expert provides insights into the unique worldview of rural settings in order to help pastors serve these congregations more effectively. Paper. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0834115034
• ISBN13: 9780834115033
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Valuable beginner's resource for rural ministry

This is a valuable resource for understanding the rural church of today in the USA. Hunter writes from his long experience as a pastor in rural churches and research in church growth. This book contains both his theory and practical experience for the small church in the country side. He deals with a wide variety of churches, such as cornfield churches, solo churches, small-town churches, playground churches, shrinking churches, migrant churches, and even "nonchurch churches." After defining rural, he then goes on to describe the personality of the rural church and how to heal its wounded personality. He then focuses on the health and vitality in the rural church, its pastor, worship, finances, and designs for the rural church. V. John

A pretty good book, worth the price

This book is useful for somebody who's had zero exposure to rural culture. But, like most works in the field of rural ministry, it doesn't go deeply enough into the particulars of rural sociology, and it ignores the economic aspects of agriculture. It's not a bad book, but the definitive guide for beginning rural ministers has yet to be written.