Staff:
Jorge Domingues
Interim Deputy General Secretary
jdomingu@gbgm-umc.org
212-870-3832
Address:
3rd Floor
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10115
Whom to Contact
This office works closely with the Rural & Urban Network Council, which is the advisory committee for the Rural & Urban Networks Office. It is comprised of representatives from each of urban jurisdictional networks and rural & town & country networks. The current co-chairpersons are Rev. Craig French from Syracuse, NY.(Urban) and Rev. Edward Kail, Alantic, Iowa, (Town & Country). For information, the contacts are as follows:
- Cooperative Ministries: Dorsey Walker - dhwalker@centurytel.net
- Gulfside Assembly in Mississippi: Mollie Stewart - mollie0128@att.net
- Hinton Rural Life Fellowship: Lyle Shipley - lyle@hintoncenter.org
- Rural Chaplains Association: Owen Gordon - revg@bellsouth.net
- Rural Church Network: Dave Ruesink - druesink@ag.tamu.edu
- Town and Rural Resource Program (TARRP) in Ohio: Tim Reeves - wlumc@bright.net
- United Methodist Appalachian Ministries Network: Robert Wilkins – umadc@aol.com
- United Methodist Rural Fellowship: Roger Grace - rogergrace@yahoo.com
Contact Via Email
Congregations can take six steps to begin an outreach ministry for the improvised. Please let us know your results and progress as you proceed with each step.
Step 1 Sanctuary clothing/food baskets
Step 2 Prepare and Serving Meals at established feeding sites
Step 3 Eat and converse with others
Step 4 Participate in local immersion experience
Step 5 Become a life guide to a family
Step 6 Practice "Aggressive Pursuit" of persons who live in poverty
Download Form
This Action Guide is the latest step in a journey that began in 1996, as a group of rural people who cared deeply about the faithfulness and effectiveness of rural churches proposed to the General Conference that a Comprehensive Plan for Town and Country Ministry be developed for the United Methodist Church in the United States. The proposal was adopted, and the plan that was subsequently developed was presented to the 2000 General Conference and adopted. The text of the plan, "Born Again in Every Place" can be found and downloaded from the Town and Country page of the GBGM website: www.gbgm-umc.org. or from The National Comprehensive Plan web site at www.townandcountryumc.org
Download FormUnited Methodist Rural Fellowship Bulletin
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