Rural Home Missionary Association

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

Rural Home Missionary Association (RHMA) is an evangelical organization that plants and strengthens churches in small-town America. It was founded in 1942 by rural pastor C.J. Rediger. [1]

RHMA seeks to plant new churches and strengthen existing churches through conferences and training. [2] Glenn Daman suggests that it has been "instrumental in expanding rural church ministry." [3]

RHMA has missionaries across rural America who are either church planters or church strengtheners. In either case, the goal is to bring the local church to self-sustaining status. [4]

The annual Small-Town Pastors' Conference (inaugurated in 1994) seeks to affirm, encourage, and equip pastoral couples in rural settings. [5]

The TACT [Town and Country Training] Program (inaugurated in 2008) consists of seminary-level, week-long classes (in June) which introduce and train for rural ministry. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Our History". Rural Home Missionary Association. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  2. ↑ Ferguson, Dave (4 February 2020). "10 Church Networking Models—Part 2". Outreach . Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  3. ↑ Daman, Glenn (2018). The Forgotten Church: Why Rural Ministry Matters for Every Church in America. Moody Publishers. p. 236.
  4. ↑ "Purpose". Rural Home Missionary Association. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  5. ↑ "Conferences". Rural Home Missionary Association. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  6. ↑ "TACT Program". Rural Home Missionary Association. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
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