Across North America, urban centers are growing, creating new challenges and opportunities for rural cities and towns. Rural churches, once a centerpiece of small town life, need new tools for loving their neighbors, sharing the gospel and connecting in community. In this Resilient Church Academy track, Michael Beck and Tyler Kleeberger will share their experience of helping established rural churches and communities experience new life through starting Fresh Expressions of Church.
**When signing up for this track, you will receive a FREE copy of Michael & Tyler’s book Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church**
Sept 19 – Session 1: Soil Map: Assessing the Rural Landscape
The first session will examine cultural shifts, phenomenon of decline, and introductory explanation of fresh expressions.
Sept 26 – Session 2: Why the Blended Ecology
This session will invite us to reimagine our contexts as communal ecosystems and provide the “why” for a blended ecology.
Oct 3 – Session 3: Cultivating Churches in the Wild
This session explores a framework for “how” to cultivate missional communities from the local church setting.