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Author: Heather Kilbourne

Heather Kilbourne is the Project Manager for the Faith in Rural Communities program at the NC Rural Center in Raleigh, NC. She is an ordained United Methodist minister. Prior to this position, she served 12 years as a rural church minister.

Moving Beyond the Walls of the Church: Shifting the Paradigm of Missional Engagement in Rural United Methodist Churches

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Heather Kilbourne

  A workshop leader asked the predictable question to a room full of ministers, “What is the purpose of the church?”  One brave person honestly answered, “To survive.”  This is Continue Reading

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