Growing the Rural Church: A Conference for Rural Church Leaders and Members, which took place in March 2012 at at Scargill House


There are clearly challenges facing rural churches, whatever denominational stream they are from.

With pressure building on a reduced number of paid leaders and clergy, historic buildings to be maintained and communities made up of a cross section of new arrivals and families that have lived in an area for generations, it is not easy pulling the threads together to grow the rural church.

However there are many positive signs of growth from around the country as rural churches have responded to these challenges.

The conference took place in March 2012 and papers are now available at

http://www.arthurrankcentre.org.uk/library-of-good-practice/item/8749-growing-the-rural-church

For the twitter feed from the event see #scargillrural

For details of other events from the Scargill Movement see http://www.scargillmovement.org/