While conventional wisdom maintains that idle hands and minds are the devil’s tools, psychological research has found benefits to boredom.
Tim Huber
Tim Huber is associate editor at Anabaptist World. He worked at Mennonite World Review since 2011. A graduate of Tabor College, he and his wife Heidi Huber served with Mennonite Central Committee in Germany, where the first of their three children were born. His family attends Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton, Kan.
HESSTON, Kan. — Rural congregations are highly attuned to the seasons. While fields lie fallow and winter wheat slumbers, representatives from Midwestern Mennonite Church USA conferences gathered in Kansas for a look at the gifts and challenges unique to such churches.
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary—Kansas Center hosted a rural ministry course Jan. 20-22 capped by a seminar by S. Roy Kaufman on “The Mission of a Rural Congregation” Jan. 24 . . .
