{"id":2339,"date":"2019-03-07T22:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2019-05-13T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:57:44","slug":"the-academy-the-small-and-rural-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/the-academy-the-small-and-rural-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Academy &#8211; The Small and Rural Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/321826745\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Resources and Recommendations:<\/h4>\n<p>Each month The Academy concludes with recommendations and resources from our panel. \u00a0The panel notes that none of these resources are perfect, but would still highly recommend them. \u00a0As March&#8217;s webinar focused on Small and Rural Congregations, our panelists recommended the following additional resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>House Church and Missional Communities<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1-C87Di26bJuBdf2vJOyNAmdHMx4AjX1M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pastor Tom Hilpert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifetogetherchurches.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life Together Churches<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.callinc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Call Incorporated<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>A Future of Hope &#8211; The Small and Rural Church<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenalc.org\/blog\/gallery\/a-future-of-hope-the-small-and-rural-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Bible Study Resource from Pastor Brad Hales.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Second-Reformation-Reshaping-Church-Century\/dp\/1880828901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Second Reformation: Reshaping the Church for the 21st Century<\/a><\/strong>: William Beckham<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spirituality-Cross-Revised-Edward-Veith\/dp\/0758613032\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=spirituality+of+the+cross+gene&amp;qid=1551900255&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spirituality of the Cross<\/a>:<\/strong> &#8211; Gene Veith<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strategically-Small-Church-Authentic-Effective\/dp\/0764207830\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=strategically+small+church&amp;qid=1551900293&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1-catcorr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Strategically Small Church<\/strong><\/a>: Brandon O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Transforming-Church-Rural-America-Shannon-ebook\/dp\/B003GXEU5Y\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=transforming+rural&amp;qid=1551900346&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Transforming Church in Rural America<\/strong><\/a>: Shannon O&#8217;Dell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please mark your calendar for next month&#8217;s session of \u00a0The Academy &#8211; April 2nd at 11:00 AM EDT. \u00a0 Also watch for announcements regarding this specific panel, as we are blessed that they have promised to join us again!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>*To connect with any of our panelists directly, please send an email by clicking here: \u00a0<a href=\"mailto: missions@thenalc.org\">The Academy &#8211; March 2019 Panelists.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources and Recommendations: Each month The Academy concludes with recommendations and resources from our panel. \u00a0The panel notes that none of these resources are perfect, but would still highly recommend them. \u00a0As March&#8217;s webinar focused on Small and Rural Congregations, our panelists recommended the following additional resources: House Church and Missional Communities:\u00a0Pastor Tom Hilpert Life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/the-academy-the-small-and-rural-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Academy &#8211; The Small and Rural Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,12,7,45],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Academy-Web.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}