Description
Seventy-one per cent (71%) of all congregations in the United States have fewer than 100 people in average weekly attendance (78% in PCUSA) Forty-four per cent (44%) of all congregations are in rural or small town settings (48% in PCUSA). Explore your reaction to social change, conflict, community patterns, and opportunities for mission in rural places and small churches, including Appalachia and other regions. While readings, presentations and discussions frame the course, there are options for ethnographic field research and development of mission plans in a setting you choose.