Expectations for small or rural churches//Power of pastoral prayer

Overcoming trickle-down connectionalism How to help country church folk feel like they matter from Jonathan Lemaster-Smith A laywoman attended Annual Conference for the first time. She was very excited. There were reports, celebrations, votes, and worship services. But very little of it celebrated or pertained to the small rural church... Afterwards, she came to me and said, with heartbreak in her eyes, “I never realized how much we don’t matter.”  READ MORE The small church teaches a different way The modest expectations of a rural pastor by Jacob Byassee We infiltrate their communities, barely understand them, speak down to them, literally, from that pulpit. Supervisors send crummy preachers or else take away good ones to bigger churches first chance they get. And yet when they show up they’re treated with respect bordering on reverence.  READ MORE confession, peace, healing The power of public pastoral prayer in worship by Anne Williams The entire worship experience is often described as corporate prayer, but there is a particular moment, which typically follows proclamation, when a worship leader centers our hearts and minds all at once in a public conversation with God. READ MORE Worship for Kids October 17, 2021 Sermon Options October 17, 2021 Partner with Missionaries Subscribe to  Daily UMC News Worship Connection  October 17, 2021 Steve Harper's Primer  to Life in Christ Browse our selection of books in preaching, worship, ministry leadership, and church & culture. Get 2022 Annuals while supplies last Making all things  new in  2022! Teaching how to pray in public

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