Cultivating God's farm : using agricultural and biblical stories and seasons to re-seed hope in small rural churches

Rebecca Leigh Collison

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Cultivating God's farm : using agricultural and biblical stories and seasons to re-seed hope in small rural churches

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Rebecca Leigh Collison. Cultivating God's Farm : Using Agricultural and Biblical Stories and Seasons to Re-seed Hope In Small Rural Churches. Wesley Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/8388066b-65e2-447e-afc9-049b35cfde16?q=2019.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

R. L. Collison. Cultivating God's farm : using agricultural and biblical stories and seasons to re-seed hope in small rural churches. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/8388066b-65e2-447e-afc9-049b35cfde16?q=2019

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Rebecca Leigh Collison. Cultivating God's Farm : Using Agricultural and Biblical Stories and Seasons to Re-Seed Hope In Small Rural Churches. Wesley Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/8388066b-65e2-447e-afc9-049b35cfde16?q=2019.

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Rebecca Leigh Collison

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Abstract

Through linking agrarian, biblical, and small rural church stories from the lens of farming the land, spiritual growth can be initiated and hope restored to the struggling small rural church. This project was conducted through small group study and discussion in small rural churches in a district of the Peninsula-Delaware Conference of the United Methodist Church. Specific attention was given to one small church over a two-year period where qualitative and quantitative growth was realized as the individuals reclaimed their roots in God’s story and planted seeds of hope through rich layers of shared faith and stories.[Note about entry: Abstract submitted to the Atla RIM database on behalf of the author. The text appears in its entirety as it does in the original abstract page of the author’s project paper. Neither words nor content have been edited.]

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