After graduation, the Church of South India first posted him to a rural congregation.

His first pastorate included four rural congregations in Virginia.

With its administrative offices located in Elgin, Illinois, the district encompasses both urban and rural congregations, large and small.

Returning to Pennsylvania in 1773, he was employed in rural congregations till his death.

This was a particularly issue for rural congregations that periodically "called" a congregation member to conduct communion services in the absence of ordained clergy.

Church has rural congregations in 9 villages in the mandal, more than 200 families worship the Lord Christ.

Services are therefore carried out even by small rural congregations in the most extreme weather and under conditions of power failure and other privations.

The death knell or the tolling of the church bell is a popular practice among rural congregations.

The council decided on the orderly removal of images within Zurich, but rural congregations were granted the right to remove them based on majority vote.

By the next fall, some two hundred united orders had been founded at least on paper, among both rural and urban congregations.