TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoeft,Jeanne M.
AU  - Jung,L.Shannon
AU  - Marshall,Joretta L.
TI  - Practicing care in rural congregations and communities
SN  - 9780800699543 (paperback : alk. paper)
U1  - 254.24 22
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Rural churches
KW  - United States
KW  - Rural clergy
KW  - Pastoral care
KW  - Rural population
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Rural conditions
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -