The Angels of Christmas - Couverture souple

Robb

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1791024254 ISBN 13 : 9781791024253

Editeur : Abingdon Press, 2022

Synopsis

Cultivate 'fresh expressions of church' in your rural congregation with Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church by Tyler Kleeberger and Michael Beck. Congregations became the hub of rural lifefor a time. The place where people gathered not only on Sundays to hear a sermon but to help each other work the land, break bread, and form deep relationships. The rural church was the place where they found a community that could sustain them through the joys and struggles of life with the land. In many ways, a rural church expressed the essence of church in general: To be the guiding hand into the life of a place. After disruptions from agriculture, industrialization, and technology, many rural churches (like the people around them) feel forgotten. Has urbanization made life outside the urban sprawl irrelevant? Can rural congregations struggling to survive find hope and new life? If so, can healthy rural churches catalyze a different future for the world? Tyler Kleebergerand Michael Beck think so. They have served rural congregations for over a decade, Michael in North Central Florida and Tyler in Northwest Ohio. They have discovered the potential and beauty of life and faith in the rural setting. The ageing congregations they serve(in declining rural communities) found ways to cultivate “fresh expressions of church” with people who call rural simply 'home'. They serve contexts in the often forgotten, wild places of our contemporary world. This book includes breakthrough stories from the diversity of rural contexts across the US. It lays out a fresh theology for rural life and offers

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan Robb's call to ministry led her to leave her career to pursue a Master's of Divinity degree at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. She graduated magna cum laude in 2006 with an award in homiletics. Susan's area of expertise lies in writing and teaching Bible studies and exploring the idea of listening to and responding to God's call. She is the author of Called: Hearing and Responding to God's Voice, Seven Words, and The Angels of Christmas. Susan is the former senior associate minister at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, where she was part of the church staff for 20 years. She is married to Ike, and they have two children, Caroline and James.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abingdon Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1791024254
• ISBN 13: 9781791024253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible