This makes for richer ministry and strong relationships. And while it opens one up to more hurts, the benefits far outweigh these costs. Great opportunities to profoundly impact lives are here. Rural Pastors Can Leave Legacies. Few urban neighborhoods last, intact, through a third generation.
City communities change racial and socio-economically.
Not a few pastors have lamented to me about how urban change has swept away the marks of their ministry. They labored to build a church that is scattered. Not so most town and country churches. They live on and on, and what the pastor has built will far outlive him. In sum, let me testify that in the decade that I have worked with rural church program for Southern Baptists, I have found ever so many truly authentic and heroic pastors serving town and country congregations effectively and joyfully.