UMNS Daily Digest - February 8, 2011 (Keywords: rural church, North Dakota, environment)
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To ensure consistent delivery, please add [1]newsdesk@umcom.org to your contact and/or safe senders list. [2]View Online | [3]Add to Address Book | [4]Subscribe UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service Tuesday, February 8, 2011 [5]Saving Bowbells: Churches keep hope alive [6]Rural Riches: Scenes from a Dakota Parish [7]Blog: The rural backbone of American Methodism [8]Conference supports 'caretakers of Planet Earth' [9]Rural Roots of United Methodism» [10]Scenes from a Dakota Parish» [11]UMTV: Rasmus' Church Growth Tips» [12]Additional UMNS Stories» [13]Find us on Facebook [14]Twitter Contact Us [15]E-mail (615) 742-5470 "People in small towns have lost so much ... and yet they hang on to that faith." â The Rev. Kathy Hammond, North Dakota pastor Saving Bowbells: Churches keep hope alive BOWBELLS, N.D. (UMNS) â Main Street, along with the churches built around it, is dying in towns like Bowbells and thousands of similar rural communities across the United States. The United Methodist Church still has an estimated 20,000 rural churches today - representing more than six in 10 of the denomination's congregations - and faces the challenge of how it will continue to minister to some of its most faithful members, as documented in the UMNS series, "Harvest of Hope: The Rural Church in America." [16]Read story and post a comment» Rural Riches: Scenes from a Dakota Parish KENMARE, N.D. (UMTV) â Pastor Kathy Hammond and her congregants in three North Dakota towns share dreams and concerns for the future of The United Methodist Church. âA lot of hope would be gone, if the local church was gone,â Hammond says. [17]Watch video» Blog: The rural backbone of American Methodism NEW YORK (UMNS) â In her Bloombytes blog, Linda Bloom writes about how small rural churches still remain part of the backbone of the denomination, despite their dwindling numbers, and what is needed to sustain them. [18]Read story and post a comment» Conference supports 'caretakers of Planet Earth' LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. (UMNS) â More than 38 speakers - ranging from the youthful founders of "One More Generation" to the Rev. Sally Bingham, founder of the Regeneration Project, are on the agenda of the March 31-April 3 "Caring for Creation" experience at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. The conference provides biblical and theological support for developing opportunities for faith communities to be caretakers of Planet Earth. A complete list of speakers and workshops is [19]available here. Did someone you know pass along this copy to you? Get your own copy [20]here. United Methodist News Service is a ministry of United Methodist Communications. 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