{"id":2918,"date":"2023-04-24T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2023-04-24T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:56:43","slug":"pastoring-small-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/04-24-2023\/pastoring-small-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoring Small Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Small churches can get left out when training new pastors is done. Sometimes, it is because people don&#8217;t realize how different a small town can be from a larger town or city. Ronnie Martin and Donnie Griggs have done a great job of drawing out how being a pastor in these often rural areas stands out. How it is sometimes harder, but also the benefits that come with it.<\/p> <p>I am not a pastor, but I am a deacon at a small church and help some other small churches in the area. That is why I was interested in this book, so that I could better support the pastors I know. It has plenty of helpful information on what to expect and how pastors can serve their congregations. I would recommend this book to anyone that serves at a small town church.<\/p> <p>I received a free copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small churches can get left out when training new pastors is done. Sometimes, it is because people don&#8217;t realize how different a small town can be from a larger town or city. Ronnie Martin and Donnie Griggs have done a great job of drawing out how being a pastor in these often rural areas stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}