Hoeft, Jeanne M. <br/><br/>
Practicing care in rural congregations and communities / 
Jeanne Hoeft, L. Shannon Jung, and Joretta Marshall. 
 - vii, 189 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780800699543 (paperback : alk. paper) 0800699548 (paperback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014453493 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rural churches--United States.<br/>Rural clergy--United States.<br/>Pastoral care.<br/>Rural population--Religious life--United States.<br/>Rural population--Social conditions.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Rural conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>254.24