On 7-8 March we gathered on ZOOM and shared 24 hours of celebrating rural people, places and ministries
Starting at the Rural Ministry Conference hosted by the Center for Theology and Land at Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, USA, the Zoom event circled the globe over 24 hours.
Prayerfully we stood and continue to stand alongside rural church leaders, learn from the wisdom of local speakers and share in their story and culture.
Click on the links in bold below for presentations made during the event.
Introduction by our Chairperson
WARTBURG RURAL MINISTRY CONFERENCE AND PRAYER AROUND THE WORLD
1500 GMT Bible Studies led by Dr Craig Nessan
- Two Studies on Climate Change access full text here
- Local Congregations Anticipating Eden access summary here
Worship at Wartburg – Season of Creation access power-point here
1615 GMT IRCA Prayer and Connecting led by Heather Major
1715 GMT Keynote speaker: Rev Melanie Mullen Episcopal Church director of reconciliation, justice and creation care. Handouts access here
1815 GMT Stories from Wartburg Theological Seminary students, in conversation with Heather Major
From this point, we moved around the world:
- 1900 GMT USA: Rural Church Network, United Methodist Rural Advocates, Rural Chaplains Association
- 2000 GMT Latin America: CEDEPCA
- 2100 GMT Central America: Rural Families Crossing Borders and Languages
- 2200 GMT Atlantic Canada
- 2300 GMT Western Canada: Faith and Land
- 0000 GMT Pacific Region: Around the Pacific
- 0100 GMT Aotearoa New Zealand: It’s tough out there
- 0200 GMT Australia: Saltbush, working with Scattered Communities
- 0300 GMT Indonesia
- 0400 GMT Japan: ARI Ecumenical
- 0500 GMT South Korea
- 0600 GMT India: Rural Farmers/Aftermath of War/Pray for India
- 0700 GMT Pakistan
- 0800 GMT Malawi: Helping Hands
- 0900 GMT Uganda
- 1000 GMT South Africa: Farming God’s Way and Inundo Farm
- 1100 GMT Central Europe: Around Europe
- 1200 GMT UK: England, Wales, Northern Ireland
- 1300 GMT UK: Scotland
- 1400 GMT: Closing worship and prayer led by the Rev Dr Mark Yackel-Juleen, Chair of IRCA