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Practicing care in rural congregations and communities / Jeanne Hoeft, L. Shannon Jung, and Joretta Marshall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, ©2013Description: vii, 189 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780800699543 (paperback : alk. paper)
  • 0800699548 (paperback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 254.24 22
Contents:
Part I. The wisdom and challenge of rural care. Care shaped by place -- Care engaging community -- Care intersecting with leadership -- Care responding to diversity -- Part II. Healing and transformative care in rural contexts. Rural poverty, class, and care -- Rural violence and care -- Rural health and wholeness -- Learning from rural communities and congregations.
Summary: "Pastoral care in rural communities is different from care in other locales. Despite these differences, rural churches and communities also hold a particular wisdom from which the rest of the church might benefit. Small towns and rural areas have particular challenges, and in seeking to live out the Christian life in the midst of those challenges, local churches have unique and useful insights into what it means to care for one another" -- Publisher description.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Print book for loan Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection BV638 .H58 2013 Available 31794003140580
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Southern Circulating Collection (Main & Upper Levels) BV638 .H58 2013 Available 35898001705793
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) BV638 .H58 2013 1 Available 31826003485555

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index.

Part I. The wisdom and challenge of rural care. Care shaped by place -- Care engaging community -- Care intersecting with leadership -- Care responding to diversity -- Part II. Healing and transformative care in rural contexts. Rural poverty, class, and care -- Rural violence and care -- Rural health and wholeness -- Learning from rural communities and congregations.

"Pastoral care in rural communities is different from care in other locales. Despite these differences, rural churches and communities also hold a particular wisdom from which the rest of the church might benefit. Small towns and rural areas have particular challenges, and in seeking to live out the Christian life in the midst of those challenges, local churches have unique and useful insights into what it means to care for one another" -- Publisher description.

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