NEW BOOK: “Rural Church Planting” (Coming soon…)
One of the motivators behind this blog site is the extreme lack of resources available on the topic of rural …
Author Archives: Patrick Bowler
“Rural rebound…”
By Patrick Bowler Valley Life Church (Lebanon, OR) In a previous post, I mentioned that rural communities can look as …
Rural Churches Grapple with a Pastor Exodus (TIME Magazine)…
This morning, I ran across this article (Thanks, Charles Hill) in TIME Magazine from back in 2009 that I found …
Jesus is better than a six-dollar burger…
By Patrick Bowler Valley Life Church (Lebanon, OR) Jesus is Better Than a Six-Dollar Burger Now, the church does not …
Out of the “junk drawer” and back on the shelf…
By Patrick Bowler Valley Life Church (Lebanon, OR) Sorting through the “junk drawer…” Every …
No demographic favoritism…
By Patrick Bowler Valley Life Church (Lebanon, OR) A cultural bias… Now, I am assuming that it is not necessary …
Can anything great come out of a small town?
By Patrick Bowler Valley Life Church (Lebanon, OR) Called to Something Great The call. One can almost hear the hallowed …
Welcome to the middle of somewhere…
By Patrick Bowler Valley Life Church (Lebanon, OR) Welcome to The Middle of Somewhere, an aspiring resource environment for the …
The Middle of Somewhere~ 