Rural & Small Town Mission: Webinars

Providing Guidance and Support to Rural and Small Town Churches


Rural & Small Town Mission webinars provide Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod pastors and congregational leaders with practical, relevant ideas for engaging the community with the Gospel.

Contact Deaconess Sandy Bowers at rstm@lcms.org or at 888-843-5267 to receive invitations and offer topic ideas for the video presentations.


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Webinar Archives

  • 2023 RSTM Webinars
  • Outpacing Inflation: How Keeping Savings in the Bank Could Harm Your Ministry’s Financial Future

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  • 2022 RSTM Webinars
  • No-Cost Revitalization Resources for LCMS Congregations

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    Keep the Fire Going with Youth Ministry

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    Articulating the Why

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    RSTM Congregations Caring for Their Church Workers

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    Welcoming People

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    Welcoming Publications

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    Welcoming Buildings

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    Preparing Your Grad for the Next Step

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    Disaster Response in RSTM

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    Rural Ministry Resources

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  • 2021 RSTM Webinars
  • Roundtable on Building Partnerships

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    Stewardship

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    David’s Harp and the Parish Based Music Conservatory

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    Ministry after the Pandemic — Making Disciples for Life

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    Orphan Grain Train Christmas Outreach

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    Joy in Youth Ministry

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    Leadership Through Conflict

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    Compassion Fatigue - Serving Our Lord Faithfully Without Burning Out

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    The Mission Field Outside Your Door

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    Parish Nursing in Rural and Small Towns

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    Life Ministry Overview

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  • 2020 RSTM Webinars
  • Deaconesses and the Rural and Small-Town Congregation: Partnership and Ministry Models

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    Congregational Partnership Training

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    Technology and the Church in Rural and Small-Town Areas

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    Thinking Outside the Box: Partnerships

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    Grace Place

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    Opioid Abuse in Rural and Small-Town Settings

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    Counting Your Blessings: Hope for Rural and Small-Town Congregations

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    Domestic Abuse in Rural and Small-Town Areas

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    Hurricane Florence—A Case Study

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  • 2019 RSTM Webinars
  • Always Prepared to Give Reason for Your Hope

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    Dealing with Addictions in Rural and Small-town Areas

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    Moving Beyond Survival: DOXOLOGY and Your Church’s Future

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    Church Reflections

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    The No-Casserole Illness and How the Church Can Respond

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    Active Stewardship in the Rural/Small-town Parish

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    What’s New in Witness & Outreach?

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    Outreach Through Lutheran Braille Workers

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    Community Engagement

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    Reaching Young Women: LWML

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    Rural & Small Town Ministry Resources

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  • 2018 RSTM Webinars
  • Summer Outreach Strategies

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    Introducing New Hymns in Small Congregations

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    Ministry to Inactives

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    Teaching the Faith: Adults

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    Pastors Leading Churches with Schools

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    Regional Youth Partnerships

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    The Christian Family — Engine for Exponential Growth

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    Redefining the Graying Church: The Mission Field of Older Adults

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    Reasons for the Faith: Apologetics 101-Islam (Sharing the Gospel with Muslims)

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    Working Partnerships: Dual and Multi Parishes

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    Children’s Midweek Ministry

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  • 2017 RSTM Webinars
  • LCMS Deaconess Ministry

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    LCMS Recognized Service Organizations

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    Spiritual Warfare

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    Disaster Relief Training

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    Mission Insight: Getting the Most Out of Your Demographics

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    Teaching the Faith: College/Young Adults

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    Teaching the Faith: Sunday School

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    re:Vitality for Rural and Small Town Congregations

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    Teaching the Faith: Confirmation

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    Teaching the Faith: VBS

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    Teaching the Faith: Youth

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  • 2016 RSTM Webinars
  • Enhancing Your Congregation’s Education Efforts

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    Using Technology for Ministry

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    What Is Revitalization and What Does It Mean for My Church?

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    Ministry to the Armed Forces in Rural and Small Town Settings

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    Are We A Friendly Church?

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    Following Through with Strategic Planning

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    Keep the Ball Rolling with Strategic Planning

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    The Value of Strategic Planning

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    Welcoming Your New Pastor

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    Sharing Christ in a Hyper-Connected World

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    Assimilation in Rural and Small-Town Settings

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    Community of Christ in Rural and Small Towns

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  • 2015 RSTM Webinars

  •  Every Pastor Needs a Pastor

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    Leadership: Churches with Schools

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    Overcoming Bad Experiences

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    Small Church Choirs

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    Youth & Parent-Partnered Youth Groups

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    Welcoming People

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    Welcoming Buildings

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    Welcoming Publications

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    Preparing Your Grad For the Next Step

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    Small Confirmation Options

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    Building Partnerships

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    Don’t They Know We’re Here?

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  • 2014 RSTM Webinars

  •  Ideas for Church Planting in RST Areas

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    Christmas Outreach

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    Witnessing Grandparents

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    Prepared: Ready to Witness in RST Areas

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    Transitioning to a Worker Priest Model

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    Rural Schools — Effective and Functional?

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    Legal/Financial Issues in Rural Parishes

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    Equipping Lutherans to be Gospel-Motivated Voices for Life

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    Parish Nursing

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    Endowments

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  • 2013 RSTM Webinars

  •  Governance

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    Church Planting in Rural & Small Town Settings

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    Stewardship Strategies

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    Campus Ministry Connections

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    Theology for Mercy in Rural/Small Town Settings: Reinvigorating the Dying

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