I want to know your rural church story. Do you have a story about how God is using your rural church? Has being in a rural church made a difference in your life? I want to know your ups, your downs, your struggles and your victories. Please share with us! Who knows your story might help another rural church somewhere?
Your Story
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I have attended a small, rural church for 62 years. I was saved and baptized in the same church along with my sons. My husband of 44 years was baptized when he decided to join from another faith. He has been a deacon of the same church for 29 years. My church has been my fortress in peace and turmoil in my life. My son was hospitalized for over 70 days and I felt strength I can’t explain on Sundays and Wednesdays when many prayers were lifted on our behalf from my church. I have buried my beloved son, mother, father, and grandparents with a pastor from this small church as my shepherd and consoling friend. It has withstood many things over time expecially a devastating fire of a newly constructed building. I feel it stands on the principles of God’s word and believes strongly in the Great Commission to go and tell of God’s love as practiced in my small, rural country church who is led by a faithful,knowledgable, loving pastor. I wish all mankind could experience the Christian love that I have from my church.
Thanks for getting the ball rolling C.A.
I am thankful to be a product of a rural church. I grew up in a small, rural community in Northeast Tennessee. My family attended Wallens Bend Baptist Church, which was a “quarter-time” church. That meant that our pastor only came one weekend a month to preach for us. On the other Sundays we only met for Sunday School. If we had thirty people in attendance on Sunday morning we felt we had a big crowd. Most everyone in the church was related by either blood or marriage. It was in the context of that community of faith that most all of the significant spiritual events in my early life took place. That tiny group of believers constituted my earliest role models for what it means to be a Christian.