Conservative rural farmers and conservation groups are sometimes at odds, but in the case of Otter Banks, a property that borders the Rocky Fork Creek…
Read moreNew Generation Embraces Farming Lifestyle
By Olivia Smucker Like the produce she grows, Lillie Eisenbeis’s farming roots run deep. Following in the footsteps of her parents and grandparents, Eisenbeis now…
Read moreThe Future of Food
This mini-documentary (7 min.) from Retro Report features Will and Sherilyn Ortman, Mennonite farmers from Freeman, SD. The couple has chosen to farm organically partly due to climate change….
Read moreRural Ministry Seminar and Course with Roy Kaufman
From the AMBS website: AMBS-Kansas Center, in conjunction with Central Plains Mennonite Conference and Western District Conference, will be hosting a Rural Ministry…
Read moreRural Community in the Context of Urban Civilization
Healing God’s Earth
by S. Roy Kaufman “This book reads the Bible through the lenses of rural communities…It turns out that local, face-to-face communities, both rural and urban,…
Read moreFor in [Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Colossians 1:19 - 20