Gary Farley is the Director of Missions for the Pickens Baptist Association. From 1984 to 1996 he worked at the Home Mission Board in the Rural Church Program of the Southern Baptist Convention. In that role he published many articles pertaining to rural church and community life. Many of these articles have been collected here as a small library. In addition,the text of both earlier and subsequent articles and books are present here. For your convenience, all of these articles and other works have been converted to the Adobe Reader format.

We invite you to freely distribute these materials— both in their electronic and printed form. Very likely they will prove useful to many in the rural church field. We expect that this library of resources will continue to grow.

Many of the articles were originally developed to address needs expressed by rural church leaders—if you sense a need that we might address, please e-mail Gary Farley at pbaATpickensDOTnet