Glenn Daman has served for over thirty-five years as a pastor of rural churches in Montana, Oregon, and Washington. He serves on the Village Missions board of directors and Rural Church Institute advisory board. He is the author of five books related to rural and small church ministry: Leading the Small Church, Shepherding the Small Church, Developing Leaders for the Small Church, When Shepherds Weep, and The Forgotten Church.



Jeff Clark (DMin) served as a church planter and trainer and the Executive Director of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention. He served for thirteen years training rural church planters in East Asia. Clark served as the Director for Wheaton College Billy Graham Center's Rural Matters Institute and is currently the Rural Mobilizer for the International Mission Board. Clark and Daman are also the co-editors of the book Equipping the Rural Church for the Twenty-First Century.