Called to Stay: The Power of Faithful Presence in a Micro-Town

Everyone told David Smith he was pastoring a "small church." They were wrong. He was pastoring an average-sized church in an extraordinarily small town -- population 709.

Called to Stay is the book David Smith wishes someone had handed him before he and his wife, Tracy, loaded a moving truck for Nucla, Colorado. Drawn from twelve years of ministry in a "micro-town" -- a community of fewer than 800 people -- this book names a reality that seminary never prepared him for: rural ministry and mi...