Steve McVey is  founder of the Dirt Roads Network, which focuses on transforming rural America by planting and revitalizing life-giving churches in small towns and communities. For twenty years, Steve served as Lead Pastor of Lamont Wesleyan Church, a thriving church of 400 people in a town of 28 inhabitants. While he has handed off the Lead Pastor duties at LWC, Steve remains on staff there as Rural Missions Pastor.

Steve is cohost of the DirtRoads Circuit Riders Podcast, an honest rambling discussion between three leaders in the rural American church.

Our conversation focused on lessons learned in rural ministry, how rural ministry differs from urban or suburban contexts, misconceptions about middle America, and God's plan to big things in small places.