Where Two or Three are Gathered: Rural and Small Town Youth Ministry

We hear it all of the time, “The youth are the future of the church!” While I have some issue with that statement (the baptized in Christ are the church now), let’s take it at face value. The idea is, we want to raise up and nurture our youth in the church so that they grow up to take the reins. While this sounds all well and good, doing this in rural and small town settings is often fraught with challenge and struggle. We see dwindling numbers of young people and the ones we do have are busy beyond...

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