emerging rural does it again

There is a great post over at emerging rural entitled, "don't overlook the power of the campfire." I have been asking the question this post attempts to answer for quite a while; what sort of organic and incarnational ministry opportunities will work in a rural context? Most of the authors in emerging xianity write from the city-center where cosmopolitan stuff works, but here in Foley we're wondering how a martini bar, an art show, a gothic mass, might stretch our community thin in terms of behind the scenes work AND inauthentic representations of their daily life.

Don't overlook the power of the campfire begins the work of answering this question.

Here's an excerpt:
Those of us in rural communities have, in my opinion, been guilty of overlooking or ignoring practices or methods that, on the surface, do not appear to be “emerging” because they aren’t the practices or methods of emerging churches in L.A. or Minneapolis. So, when we ask these questions, we need to be open to answers that may appear to be ‘foolish’ to someone living in a city-center, though the answer is extremely effective in a rural setting.