Urban and Rural Ministry

Urban and Rural Ministry

Introduction

Rural and Urban development and growth plays an important role in the development of the country. The Rural and Urban Ministry is related to the issues of the poor but it also includes the learning and findings of their problems but also resolving the issues they are facing. The principal focus of the ministries is related to the transformation of the rural areas. In this paper we would be discussing role of Rural and Urban ministries in the rural congregation. The role of ministries in Rural Urban congregation will also be discussed.

Background of urban and rural ministry

The rural and urban ministries have a huge responsibility in Urban and rural settings. There are many rural areas in America. These groups form the social identity even as regional designations lose their ethnic basis. Local and national organizations provide crucial social to these areas and support them due to government restrictions on international aid. Recreational activities are mainly open only to wealthy urbanites.

Ethnic identification is a key determinant of these areas. Many of these ethnic affiliations and the social networks based upon them cross into the neighboring countries, most notably Ethiopia. The main geographic regions are the highlands, dominated by Orthodox Christians, and the lowlands, dominated by Muslims, but more heterogeneous. Those who belonged to the Front were linked socially as well as politically. Loyalty to this social and political network is instrumental in obtaining government positions. The formation of multiethnic regional designations that eroded the older ethnic-based regions and conflicts with border nations further strengthened national cohesion. The military conflicts, however, also served to disrupt traditional family life and the social networks based upon it. Rural areas are based upon ethnicity, religion, and social class. Large kin networks of lineage and clan are key determinants of social identity and also carry with them responsibilities and support within the social network. Elders command much respect and ensure that the young maintain the group's social norms and practices. The traditional landowning rural elites have largely disappeared due to land reforms, and widespread poverty has limited social distinctions based on wealth. Urban elites form a new social group that includes government employees, wealthy businessmen, and returning expatriates, and they often network exclusively among their own class.

Urban Ministries

In recent years we have seen in our continent has emerged how a pastoral theological reflection that has followed a number of church in research and development of evangelization in the big cities. Many theologians' pastoralists, through their efforts to approach the urban phenomenon, its pastoral discernment and participation in processes specific church, have faced the challenge of large Latin American cities facing the Church and have slowly traced a path that is important to recognize and return to the current time to take the challenge of urban ministry.

Space for reflection on the problematic urban ministry has been in the synodical processes that have made urban dioceses in the continent and allowing them to think and rethink themselves in relation to urban ...