About the Book
Rather than resist the change, Jonathan Davis invites rural churches and pastors to embrace it. In Sea Change, he shares why rural churches have strengths that make them better prepared than they may realize to navigate change.
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Groundbreaking Research. Timely Wisdom.
Exploring Rural Currents
Readers will learn what makes rural ministry so unique, and so exciting.
Posmodernity in Rural Ministry
One of the first books to explore in depth the impacts of postmodernity on rural ministry.
Leading Congregational Change
Leaders learn how to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of organizational change dynamics.
A Theology of Rural Ministry
With the Bible as a navigational chart, readers set sail on a new journey of fresh discovery and exploration.
Understanding 6 New Cultural Values
Not all emerging cultural values are threats to the church. In fact, many are gifts to be embraced.
Contextualizing Ministry
Readers will be taught how they can implement new strategies in their own context.
Video Overview
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Sea Change set for November Release
The book, Sea Change: Equipping Rural Churches for the Tides of Cultural Upheaval is set to release just in time for the holidays. Freiling Publishing is pleased to release this important work which has the potential to help the 150,000+ churches in rural America as they wrestle with shifting culture.
Many of the resources written for churches target large urban and suburban congregations. Author Jonathan Davis spent years researching rural culture, and has written an engaging book with rural pastors and churches in mind.
Davis delves deeply into the dynamics of rural ministry in the emerging postmodern and post-Christian North American contexts, explores how the Bible can help rural churches navigate the present age, and explores a fresh theology for ministry in rural and small-town contexts.
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About the Author
Jonathan has over twenty years of ministry experience, much of it serving rural churches and communitues.
About the Author
Jonathan Davis, MDiv, DMin, is an ordained minister with over a decade of ministry experience in a variety of contexts, and is the founder of www.smalltownchurches.org, which exists to share ideas, research, and tools for ministers and churches in small-town and rural locations.
Jonathan is passionate to help churches and non-profits across North America navigate the unprecedented changes brought on by postmodernity, and to train and equip faith leaders to find not only opportunity but Divine blessing in the midst of cultural and professional upheaval.
He is an author, executive leadership coach, facilitator, and popular speaker.
Sea Change set for November Release
The book, Sea Change: Equipping Rural Churches for the Tides of Cultural Upheaval is set to release just in time for the holidays. Freiling Publishing is pleased to release this important work which has the potential to help the 150,000+ churches in rural America as they wrestle with shifting culture.
Many of the resources written for churches target large urban and suburban congregations. Author Jonathan Davis spent years researching rural culture, and has written an engaging book with rural pastors and churches in mind.
Davis delves deeply into the dynamics of rural ministry in the emerging postmodern and post-Christian North American contexts, explores how the Bible can help rural churches navigate the present age, and explores a fresh theology for ministry in rural and small-town contexts.
The book, Sea Change: Equipping Rural Churches for the Tides of Cultural Change, is set to release just in time for the holidays.
