Last year, I visited a Methodist church in Colebrook, New Hampshire, a small town of about 2,000 people. On a typical Sunday, around 20 people attended the service at the Trinity United Methodist ...

Most Sunday mornings, Marcia Barker walks out of her house just before 8 a.m. and meets her friend in the middle of the road. Together, they walk across the quiet main street to church. The retired ...

For the fifth time since 2022, Evangel University received a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. The latest is worth $7.5 million. The grant is part of the Indianapolis-based private philanthropic ...

Trust in institutions is cratering everywhere, but at least in urban and suburban communities, those institutions still exist. The same cannot be said for rural America. In the last few decades, rural ...

CLARKSVILLE -- A more than $4.8 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. will help the University of the Ozarks support churches in serving as anchor institutions in their communities. Lilly's ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded grants to 20 organizations across the United States to provide resources to help churches in rural areas and small towns enhance the vitality of their ...

Churches have long been the heart centers of American towns - the place people gather once a week to worship, yes, but also to feel connected to their communities. Now those gathering places are ...

MINOT, N.D. - Some were farmers. Some were ranchers. All could be found on a regular basis at country churches throughout North Dakota. It was the rural church that brought people together like no law ...

It's like a temp service, only for preachers. Much like the traveling evangelists in the early West, small and rural churches in Montana that cannot find or afford a full time pastor often recruit and ...