tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33947149626258433592011-07-07T23:59:15.946-06:00Dave and Stephanie Whitman's online journal of vocational ministry. Our idea is to share questions, struggles and concerns as we live out ministry...and hear yours as well.Dave and Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06439098367676450017noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394714962625843359.post-74341887214854343592010-09-01T09:28:00.002-06:002010-09-01T09:28:27.973-06:00

Posted by Dave:  At the encouragement of a friend, I'm experimenting with a revamped blog.  After a really long season of school, questions and moving, we've entered a new place in ministry (and life) where we're both serving in "missionary outposts" (aka, local churches).  We've traveled many miles (literally and figuratively), and God has blessed us with many friends/mentors along the way

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Posted by Dave: I never would have guessed where I'd be serving these past two years.  But an emerging vocational pattern is clear: I'm a rural church pastor.  Briefly, here is a short and incomplete snapshot.  Rural communities struggle to retain their identity.  Younger people move to bigger cities for practical reasons like employment.  Rural people are more conservative in their

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