Books
Rural Titles
- A Big Gospel in Small Places: Why Ministry in Forgotten Communities Matters By Stephen Witmer
- Big Dreams in a Small Town by Rocky McKinley
- Big Dreams in Small Places: Church Planting in Smaller Communities by Tom Nebel
- Dynamics of Small Town Ministry by Lawrence Farris
- Church and Countryside: Insights from Rural Theology by Tim Gibson
- Church Out Here: Insights from Small Town Churches edited by Will Basham, Olivia Meade, and Jason Cook
- Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life by George Herbert
- The Forgotten Church: Why Rural Ministry Matters for Every Church in America by Glenn Daman
- God-shaped Mission: Theological and Practical Perspectives from the Rural Church by Alan Smith
- God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church by Brad Roth
- The Lord’s Harvest And The Rural Church: A New Look at Ministry in the Agri-Culture by Kent Hunter
- Maximize! Leveraging the Strengths of Your Small Church
- No Little Places: The Untapped Potential of the Small-Town Church by Ron Klassen & John Koessler
- Old Time Religion: Healthy Churches in Rural Places by Jason Cook
- Ordinary Faithfulness by Olivia Meade
- Recognizing Rural Ministry: Moving from Anecdotal Assumptions to Data Derived Opportunities by Carl P. Greene
- Reflections of a Small Town Pastor: Engaging in God’s Mission in Smaller Places by Lee J. Smith
- Replanting Rural Churches: God’s Plan and Call for the Middle of Nowhere By Matt Henslee, Kyle Bueermann, and Mark Clifton
- Re-shaping Rural Ministry: A Theological and Practical Handbook by Jill Hopkins
- Rural Church RESCUE: A Call to Restore Healthy Churches to Rural North America by Jon Sanders
- Rural Congregational Studies: A Guide for Good Shepherds by Shannon Jung and Mary Agria
- Rural Evangelism: Catching the Vision by Kevin Ruffcorn
- Rural Ministry: The Shape of the Renewal to Come by Shannon Jung
- The Rural Pastor: Then Things I Wish I had Known Before I Began Rural Ministry by H. Andy Wiebe
- Rural Revival: Growing Churches in Shrinking Communities by W. Scott Moore
- Rural Youth Ministry: Expanded Second Edition 2nd Edition by Brent Lacy
- Small Town Jesus: Taking the gospel mission seriously in seemingly unimportant places by Donnie Griggs
- Small Town Mission: A Guide for Mission-Driven Communities by Aaron Morrow
- Transforming Church in Rural America by Shannon O’Dell
- Who were the First Christians: Dismantling the Urban Thesis by Thomas A. Robinson
Small Church
- The Bible, Live: A Basic Guide for Preachers and Teachers in Small Churches by Vernal Wilkinson
- The Big Small Church Book by David Ray
- Entering the World of the Small Church by Anthony Pappas
- The Grasshopper Myth: Big Churches, Small Churches and the Small Thinking that Divides Us by Karl Vaters
- The Healthy Small Church: Diagnosis and Treatment for the Big Issues by Dennis Bickers
- The Indispensable Guide for Smaller Churches by David Ray
- Inside the Small Church by Anthony Pappas
- Leading the Small Church by Doran McCarty
- Leading the Small Church: How to Develop a Transformational Ministry by Glenn Daman
- Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome by Kent and Barbara Hughes
- Microchurches: A Smaller Way by Brian Sanders
- The More-with-Less Church: Maximize Your Money, Space, Time, And People To Multiply Ministry Impact by Eddy Hall
- One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Bringing Out the Best in Any Size Church by Gary McIntosh
- Pastoral Care in the Small Membership Church by James Killen
- Reality Check for the Church: Discovering a Unique Vision for the Small Church by Ron Johnston
- Releasing the Power of the Smaller Church by Shawn McMullen
- Small Church BIG Deal: How to rethink size, success and significance in ministry by Chris Vitarelli
- Small Church Essentials by Karl Vaters
- The Small Church is Different! by Lyle Schaller
- Smaller Churches Healthy and Growing by Barry Campbell
- Shepherding the Small Church by Glenn Daman
- The Strategically Small Church: Intimate, Nimble, Authentic, and Effective by Brandon O’Brien
- A Toolbox for Small Churches by Hilary Taylor
- Uniquely Bivocational by Ray Gilder
- Unleashing the Potential of the Smaller Church by Shawn McMullen
Secular
- Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People by Gary Goreham
- Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America by Patrick Carr
- The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America by Robert Wuthnow
- Journal of Research in Rural Education
- Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows
- Rural Communities: Legacy + Change by Cornelia Butler Flora
- Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future by Robert Wuthnow
- Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America by Jennifer Sherman
Biography/Fiction/Other
- If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham
- Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson by D.A. Carson
- Moving To A Small Town: A Guidebook To Moving From Urban To Rural America by Wanda Urbanska and Frank Levering
- Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery by Richard Lischer
- Parables of a Country Parson: Heartwarming Stories of Christian Faith and Life William E. Barton (Author), Garth Rosell (Editor), Stan Flewelling (Editor)
