One Horse Town

Dive In: Getting to Know Your Community with Marty Cates

Marty Cates is a church planter in rural Virginia. Gossip, Plott hounds, and square bales fill this conversation with practical insights into small town pastoring.

The Beautiful Opportunities of Small Town Ministry with Gage Jordan

Gage Jordan pastors First Presbyterian Church in Dyersburg, TN. It may seem as though small town pastoring would be dull and uneventful. Yet Gage helps us to think through how small town ministry can be vibrant, transformative, and wonderfully engaging. 

Planting a Small Town Church with Kent Suits

Can you plant a church in a small town? Why would you plant a church in a small town? What kind of pastor should plant a church in a small town? In this episode, Corey Pelton of Rural Church Development, sits down with pastor Kent Suits to discuss this topic.

Three church circuit: an interview with Lincoln Speece

In this episode, pastor Lincoln Speece joins us to talk about pastoring three small churches in a very poor and rural area between Montgomery and Selma, Alabama.  We dive into what it looks like to share resources with other denominations, being intentional about community, and street preaching.

Think Parish: an interview with Bill Bennett

In this episode Bill Bennett, pastor of Jefferson Community Church in Jefferson, Georgia, talks about bi-vocational ministry, the importance of thinking parish, and the how-to's and what-not-to-do's of rural church ministry.  Oh . .  and chewing tobacco.

Called to Rural: an interview with Brad Roth

Today I got to speak with Brad Roth. Brad serves as pastor at West Zion Mennonite Church in Moundridge, Kansas.  He is also the author of God’s Country: Faith, Hope and the Future of the Rural Church.  It is not only a really good resource for small town pastors, but a beautifully written and, at times, humorous book.