Leadership Journal Articles

Small Church, Rural Ministry, and Small Town Churches

Current through Summer 2003 (updated 11/13/2003)

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"Acceptable Losses," Robert V. Acker & David Hansen (ART), p. 38, Summer 98
"Best Books on the Small Church," Glenn C. Daman (SDB), p. 115, Spring 98
"Big Ambitions, Small Church," Jeffrey Schirle (ART), p. 104, Winter 99
"Church Growth Meets the Real World," David Coffin (SDB), p. 39, Winter 96
"City Pastor, Country Church," Bryan Clark (ART), p. 137, Fall 94
"Coaching the Little-League Church," Ed Rowell (ART), p. 97, Spring 95
"Connecting the Generations," Drew Zahn (ART), p. 37, Spring 02
"Diagnosing Hurry Sickness," John Ortberg (SDB), p. 31, Fall 98
"Disillusioned with Your Church?," Dietrich Bonhoeffer (ART), p. 37, Winter 98 (not available online)
"Double-Digit Churches," Marshall Shelley (ART), p. 38, Fall 83
"Evangelism for the Ordinary Church," Steve R. Bierly (ART), p. 43, Summer 97
"Evangelism in a Small Town," Kenneth Vetters with Cindy Vetters Lanning (ART), p. 74, Spring 84
"Finding Excellence in a Small Church," Steve R. Bierly (ART), p. 87, Summer 98
"First Runner-Up," Name Withheld (ART), p. 47, Winter 98
"Freed from Needing the Numbers," Craig Brian Larson (ART), p. 44, Summer 98
"Get a (Balanced) Life!," Gary D. Preston (ART), p. 52, Fall 98
"Good News for the Weary," Anthony Laird (ART), p. 38, Fall 98
"Good Pastors Don't Make Churches Grow," C. Peter Wagner (ART), p. 66, Winter 81
"Great Plains Ministry," Dan Edmondson (SDB), p. 108, Summer 93
"Helping a Settled Congregation Move Ahead," John Beukema, p. 61, Winter 97
"Hope in a No-Growth Town," Charles Yarborough (ART), p. 78, Summer 96
"How Home Visits Pay Off," Grant McDowell, p. 91, Fall 97
"How Many Did You Have Last Sunday," Jack Hayford (SDB), p. 39, Winter 98
"How Smaller Churches Grow," (SBD), p. 9, Summer 03
"How the Family Church Grows," Kathy Callahan-Holwell, Gary Farley, Martin Giese (FOR), p. 111, Spring 98
"How We Adapted," Jeffrey Schirle (SBD), p. 106, Winter 99
"In the Pastoral Pastorate," Stephen McMullin (ART), p. 72, Summer 87
"Investing in Small-Church Futures," John Koessler (ART), p. 26, Summer 94
"Large Ministry in a Small Package," Patricia Duckworth (ART), p. 99, Fall 96
"Living Abundantly When Resources Are Scarce," Craig Brian Larson (ART), p. 50, Winter 98
"Making of a Good Little Church, The," Gary Harrison (ART), p. 92, Summer 86
"More Oxygen to the Flame," Zig Ziglar, Ben Patterson (FOR), p. 20, Fall 98
"Must a Healthy Church Be a Growing Church?," Larry DeWitt, Vernard Eller, John A. Huffman, Jr., Ben Patterson, and C. Peter Wagner (FOR), p. 127, Winter 81
"Numbers Game, The: A Threat to Churches Large and Small," Wayne Jacobsen (ART), p. 49, Winter 83
"One Mother's Story," Jarol F. Duerksen (SDB), p. 108, Winter 85
"Open Secrets," Richard Lischer (ART), p. 108, Fall 2001
"Pandora's Box," (VanderEnde) Bob Moeller (ART), p. 40, Summer 94
"Pastor as Survivalist, The," Craig Brian Larson (ART), p. 92, Winter 90
"Pastoral Care in Paradise," David Goetz (ART/Photo Essay), p. 55, Spring 97 (not available online)
"Progress You Can Measure," Loren Seibold (ART), p. 98, Winter 98
"Quality Church, The (Part One)," C. Peter Wagner and Richard L. Gorsuch (ART), p. 28, Winter 83 (Note: no "Part Two" was ever published)
"Radical Ministry in Raw Surroundings," Nancy Pastor and David L. Goetz (PhotoEssay), p. 94, Fall 97
"Retooling for Rural Ministry," Ron Klassen (ART), p. 82, Summer 89
"Rivers Run Through Them," David Hansen (ART), p. 58, Fall 2000
"Shadow of a Megachurch, The," Chris W. Tornquist and John B. Aker (ART), p. 94, Fall 90
"Shadow of the Mighty Megachurch, The," Kristy Roberts Dykes (SDB), p. 81, Summer 87
"Sharper Definition," Brian Metke (ART), p. 61, Summer 2000
"Small Church, The," Steve Burt (BIB), p. 89, Summer 90
"Small Church's Big Goals, A," John Koessler (SDB), p. 30, Summer 94
"Statistical Strengths of the Rural Church," Randolph F. Legassie (SDB), p. 77, Spring 90
"Staying Sharp in a Small Town," Richard Doebler (ART), p. 53, Summer 99
"Stretching Your Small-Town Church," Loren Seibold (ART), p. 108, Spring 89
"Strong Little Church, The," Christian Schwarz (ART), p. 53, Fall 99
"Suggestions for an Effective First Pastorate," Mrs. Floyd Chapman and Stephen Englehardt (ART), p. 63, Summer 80
"Taking Care of Busyness," John C. Ortberg (ART), p. 28, Fall 98
"Treating New Members Like Royalty," Charles Yarborough (SDB), p. 82, Summer 96
"Uncle Ceph," Debra Allen (SDB), p. 131, Spring 91
"Unique Network of a Small Church," John Koessler (SDB), p. 85, Summer 93
"Upon Taking a Small Church," David Hansen (SDB), p. 79, Spring 90
"View from the Steeple, A," Ben Patterson (SDB), p. 57, Winter 80
"Ways and Means of a Country Church, The," Jack and Ann Wald (ART), p. 93, Spring 82
"We Should Be Growing," Name Withheld (ART/Case Study), p. 61, Summer 98; and "Responses," Reggie McNeal, Leith Anderson and Paul M. Diettrich, p. 64, Summer 98
"What I Learned About Rurban Ministry," James D. Berkley (ART), p. 72, Winter 82
"What I Wish I'd Known Before I Quit," Anthony Laird (ART), p. 33, Winter 98
"What's a 'Significant' Ministry?" Tim Bowman (ART), p. 99, Summer 99
"When Churches Begin to Shiver," Anne Rosser (SDB), p. 34, Winter 83
"When the Biggest Church in Town Isn't Yours," Dean Merrill (ART), p. 54, Fall 82
"Why Churches Don't Want To Grow," Lyle E. Schaller (ART), p. 29, Spring 95
"Why I Don't Train Leaders in Malinta, Ohio," David Coffin, p. 35, Fall 96
"Will the Circle Be Broken?," Lyle E. Schaller (ART), p. 31, Summer 98
"You Can't Believe Everything You Hear About Church Growth," Lyle E. Schaller (ART), p. 46, Winter 97

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