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Hi everyone! I fully intended to post much sooner but it has been a very busy couple of weeks. This is a big weekend in our household as my oldest is in the local middle school musical this weekend, ‘Teens in Tinseltown.’ So practices have increased along with homework and then you add in my [...]
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Rural ministry…
I have enjoyed writing and responding about Rural ministry in this blog but I have decided to move my discussion about it to my other blog, now renamed, ‘Small Town Sermons and Thoughts’ that you can visit at http://jimkane.wordpress.com
Building capacity…
Well, the Noble County Indiana Hometown Competitiveness effort is getting underway and next month [...]
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Time magazine published a story about the challenges of rural pastors in their January 29, 2009 issue and it can be found here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1874843,00.html
I wrote something in my last post about this article but had not read it until last week.
I have been a rural/small town pastor for nearly 8 and 1/2 years now and [...]
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I continue to be impressed and inspired by Jung and Agria’s text: Rural Congregational Studies: A Case for Good Shepherds and especially with chapter 5 on leadership.
Two words define this chapter for me: process and listening. Both are skills and a mindset. I believe that their point that rural ministry requires a patience for process [...]
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In this morning’s local paper, The Kendallville News-Sun, an article appeared that noted that our county, Noble County, ranks fourth in the state of Indiana in unemployment at 10+%.
The implications for this are tremendous but as I read the article I also thought about the article I read on cnn.com that I noted in my [...]
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With the gracious permission of my local paper, the Kendallville News Sun, here is the article about the meeting that I attended on Monday the 15th and wrote about later that day.
Social agencies working to meet recession challenges
By Dennis Nartker
(Created: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:23 AM EST)
KENDALLVILLE — Open a soup kitchen in Kendallville?
That’s [...]
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