Children make up nearly 20 per cent of the rural population. This short,
accessible book offers practical resources and ideas to help churches
build an effective children's ministry in a rural setting. The ideas are
drawn from churches and communities in rural areas where children's
work is starting to grow.
Rona Orme offers realistic and creative ways of engaging with children
in the community by encouraging churches to make the most of
opportunities to:
share the Church's year with the community and the community's year with
the Church;
reach children and their families at significant rites of passage;
enable the Church to be a gathering point and contributing partner in
the community.
Each chapter contains inspiring case studies and thought-provoking
questions for discussion.