It has been an assumption among those who study the church that the emerging church movement found its home among urban centers ministering to a specifically postmodern context. However, many hallmarks of this movement are appropriate for smaller churches-even rural congregations-that have been frustrated in attempts to appropriate church-growth models that do not fit their ministry settings. At Leetown United Methodist Church, we set out to create a faith community within a community both to revitalize our own membership and to reach a newly-developed part of the city closest in proximity...