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 Hal A. Bilbo, D.Min.

 Associational Missionary

 Libby Hartsell

 Administrative Assistant

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Know Your Community & Culture

The following documents can help you better understand your community.  Your associational missionary would be happy to interpret these for leaders or congregations to apply these to mission and/or ministry strategies.

28001    Albemarle      Basic 10 Facts     Profile      Faith     Generations     Ethnic

28097    Locust            Basic 10 Facts     Profile      Faith     Generations     Ethnic

28127    New London  Basic 10 Facts     Profile      Faith     Generations     Ethnic

28128    Norwood        Basic 10 Facts     Profile      Faith     Generations     Ethnic

28129    Oakboro        Basic 10 Facts     Profile      Faith     Generations     Ethnic

28137    Richfield        Basic 10 Facts     Profile      Faith     Generations     Ethnic

28163    Stanfield       Basic 10 Facts     Profile      Faith     Generations     Ethnic

County-wide Statistics   Social Trends    Demographic Analysis -CMR

State-wide Statistics

National Statistics

Additional demographic and church leader resource links

   
Village Missions http://community.gospelcom.net/Brix?pageID=8089 
New Life Ministries http://www.newlifeministries-nlm.org/contents-smch.htm 
Christianity Today http://www.christianitytoday.com/bcl/areas/churchvitalsigns/articles/060506.html  Article in Christianity Today
http://www.ctlibrary.com/le/2003/summer/27.9.html Article in Christianity Today
Rural Social Science Education http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/rsse/index.html  Secular education website
Parkland Institute http://www.ualberta.ca/PARKLAND/post/Vol-V-No2/05whitsonepp.html  Canadian, secular, research institute
The Association for Religion Data Archives http://www.thearda.com/  EXCELLENT SITE- religious research
Small Church dot com http://www.smallchurch.com/  Good site for rural ministry
Young Life http://www.younglife.org/Pages/Small+Town+Rural.htm  An article on the Young Life website
Presbyterian USA Rural Website http://www.pcusa.org/rural/  
Rural Presbytery of Kisiminetas http://www.kiskipby.org/Links/smllrural.htm  Presbyterian USA website
ELCA rural website http://www.elca.org/rural/   
Anglican website http://www.oxford.anglican.org/rural/  English look at rural- Anglican
Wartburg Theological Seminary http://www.ruralministry.com/   
United States Department of Ag. http://ers.usda.gov/  Lots of good maps
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/RaceAndEthnic/geography.htm An article on the USDA site
http://maps.ers.usda.gov/new_rural/index.asp?ActiveLayer=33&ZoomTo=&action=zoomin&x=197&y=14  A good site on the usda site
Rural Policy Research Institute http://www.rupri.org/   
http://www.rupri.org/resources/rnumbers/demopop/demo.html  A good article on the RPRI site
Rural Sociology Society Journal http://ruralsociology.org/pubs/RuralSociology/
NC. Rural Health Research Map Archives http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/maps/maps.html  Lots of good maps and definitions
Luther Seminary http://www.luthersem.edu/catalog/05_07/courses/course_descriptions.asp?course=RM4515#RM4515  Courses on rural ministry offered at LS
Missouri School of Religion Center for Rural Ministry http://www.msr-crm.org/  Disciples of Christ 
Christian Farmers Outreach http://www.christianfarmers.com/index.html  Non Denominational, I think?
Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/  Always a good place for Rural info.
National Center on Addition and Drug Abuse  http://www.casacolumbia.org/absolutenm/templates/PressReleases.aspx?articleid=134&zoneid=49  An article on the Columbia University site
Calvin University Web site on worship http://www.calvin.edu/worship/wcom/rural_ministry.php 
Rural Home Ministry Associaton http://www.rhma.org/  THE SITE ON RURAL MINISTRY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturate Stanly 

Because it is not God's will that any person would perish and has called every believer to be an ambassador to represent Him, our churches are prayerfully developing a plan to communicate the Gospel in ways that others can understand and respond to Jesus Christ. Each church is asked to share its plan and update sister churches to celebrate victories and focus prayer for spiritual strongholds to fall. For more information, e-mail the association or check out our Facebook page.   read more

 

 Mike Ross,

 Moderator

 Neng Yang,

 Hmong Missionary

 Hugo Gallegos,

 Hispanic Missionary

Connecting churches in missions and ministry

We are God's fellow workers.   -1 Cor.3:9

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