Little One Shall Lead
Little One Shall Lead
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A Little One Shall Lead
Small Congregations Create New Ways of Being Church
Susan McNelly Craig and Douglas Allan Dunlap
The Pilgrim Press, 2025
ISBN 9780829800920
Softcover, 163 pp.
8.4 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches | 0.6 pounds
A Little One Shall Lead shares the encouraging stories of 17 congregations that, despite limited worship attendance and financial resources, have outsized impact with their ministries. Co-authors Susan McNeily Craig and Douglas Allan Dunlap, of the Small Church Story Project, treat these snapshots of small church life with care and reverence for the Holy at work in life-affirming ways.
The Rev. Susan M. Craig, is a retired minister in the United Church of Christ, most recently serving on the three-member Pastoral Team for the Sheepscott Community Church, (2019-2024). This was preceded by her role as Interim Pastor at the Wiscasset Church UCC, in Maine 2014-2016. Prior to that, she served as Associate Conference Minister for the Maine Conference traveling throughout the Conference and meeting and working with congregations of all sizes.
The Rev. Dr. Doug Dunlap is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He has served as a church pastor, medical center chaplain, and clergy educator, and has engaged in community ministries pertaining to rural poverty, educational opportunity in rural communities, community-based rehabilitation for persons with major mental illness, and compassionate and comprehensive end of life care.
2025.05.07