R. Quinn Pugh was the Executive Director of the Metropolitan New York Baptist Association and the Executive Treasure of the Baptist Convention of New York. The service begins with organ music (00:00-00:56). There is a responsive reading, and the speaker gives a word of prayer (00:57-02:45). R. Quinn Pugh is introduced as the Missionary Day chapel speaker (02:46-04:55). The choir sings the anthem (04:56-07:30). Pugh begins his sermon with a word of prayer (07:31-08:24). Pugh speaks about the rural-urban divide in American society, and he encourages the audience to listen to God’s call of potentially doing ministry in urban areas such as New York City (08:25-46:54). Pugh ends the service with a word of prayer (46:55-48:21).
This message was part of the Ministry with the Small Rural Church Workshop. Robert E. Wiley was Associates Director of the Rural Missions Department in the Associational Missions Division of the Home Mission Board. Wiley begins his lecture by sharing some book resources for the audience, and he lays out the topics that he will be lecturing on over the next few days (00:00-08:12). Wiley’s lecture is about the changes in society bringing the rural and urban worlds closer together, and he walks through how one brings change to small rural churches where change is a difficult process (08:13-50:35). Wiley concludes his lecture by once again bringing attention to the book resources on cultural church change (50:36-51:12).