Rural Ministries
To see the countryside served by missional communities who are grace filled, God empowered and contextually relevant.
- Encourage, equip and enable rural churches in mission
- Networking practitioners, pioneers and rural churches together in similar situations
- Offering spiritual and practical support from our experienced staff
- Providing pump-priming resources for mission and church planting
- Teaching, training and raising the profile of rural mission and related issues
- Leadership development, specifically tailored to those working in the rural context
- Hosting an annual conference for all our partners, as a time of teaching, sharing, refreshment and encouragement
- Being the first point of contact for those looking to serve in a rural context
- Offering independent advice when problems arise
- Helping rural churches identify and call core leaders
- Providing an evangelical voice into many of the main line denominations, on challenges faced by rural congregations