Rural Home Missionary Association

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Rural Home Missionary Association
Formation1942 (1942)
Executive Director
Adam Kipp
Website rhma.org

The Rural Home Missionary Association (RHMA) is a rural church network in the United States. [1] It was founded in 1942. [2]

RHMA seeks to plant new churches and strengthen existing churches through conferences and training. [1] Glenn Daman suggests that it has been "instrumental in expanding rural church ministry." [3]

In her 2019 book God Land, Lyz Lenz relates how she attended an RHMA training conference and was advised to carry a gun while preaching. [4] Lenz argues that the curriculum was "male-centric" and notes that RHMA-supported missionaries must be "men in heterosexual relationships". [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Ferguson, Dave (4 February 2020). "10 Church Networking Models—Part 2". Outreach . Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  2. "Our History". Rural Home Missionary Association. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  3. Daman, Glenn (2018). The Forgotten Church: Why Rural Ministry Matters for Every Church in America. Moody Publishers. p. 236.
  4. Felicetti, Elizabeth (11 November 2019). "Why did Lyz Lenz's church fail? Why do so many others?". Christian Century . Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  5. Lenz, Lyz (1 August 2019). "Trap Shooting with Pastors". Pacific Standard . Retrieved 19 August 2022.