by Gary Farley | Nov 19, 2002 | Opinion
The most helpful “continuing education” experience for me these past five years as a rural minister has been the annual Country and City Tour Day. Something like it is provided by the Cooperative Extension in many rural counties across our nation. It has...
by Gary Farley | Nov 12, 2002 | Opinion
An alarming statistic from the report is that only about 20 to 25 percent of the adherents to the Baptist movement will be found in worship in a Baptist church on a given Sunday. This suggests that there is a lot of work to do within the congregations in the field of...
by Gary Farley | Oct 29, 2002 | Opinion
For the 167th time, people from the Baptist churches around this area came together for worship, celebration, fellowship and wonderful meals. While the annual meetings of associations have evolved across the years, these elements have remained constant. This is the...
by Gary Farley | Oct 17, 2002 | Opinion
If you find yourself in a Smallville stadium this Friday night, focus on teamwork. It takes teamwork to win. It takes teamwork to grow Christian character. It takes teamwork to improve life materially and spiritually in a community or an area. We watch our boys do...
by Gary Farley | Sep 20, 2002 | Opinion
These six sets of values, grounded in love for God, are among the most important basic Christian values expressed in rural settings—the values that should inform and guide every life. They come to us in dialectical or paradoxical form because either side of any set...
