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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