Urban Mission // Rural Mission - 6/2019

In this episode, Rev. Todd Kollbaum, director of Rural and Small
Town Mission for the LCMS Office of National Mission, joins hosts
Rev. Dr. Steve Schave, Director of LCMS Church Planting, and Rev.
Dr. Mark Larson, Manager of Church Planting in the Mission Field:
USA initiative, to explore the differences and similarities between
urban and rural church planting and what urban and rural cousins
can learn from each other to strengthen the impact of their
ministries. About Rev. Todd Kollbaum: Pastor Todd Kollbaum was
installed as Director of LCMS Rural & Small Town Mission on
April 1, 2013. Prior to that call, he served as Senior Pastor of
Trinity Lutheran Church in Cole Camp, MO since August of 2004.
Pastor Kollbaum is a 2004 graduate of Concordia Seminary St. Louis,
MO and a 1990 graduate of Dana College in Blair, NE and is
currently working on his PhD in Missiology at Concordia Theological
Seminary Ft. Wayne. Pastor has been happily married to Angela
Kollbaum for nearly 29 years. They are blessed with five children,
three of whom are now married. Zachary (Clarissa), Jordan
(Stephanie) and Emily (Dylan), Ryan (a sophomore at Concordia
University Nebraska) and Abigail (an eighth grader at St. Paul’s
Lutheran School in Concordia, MO) The Kollbaums currently reside in
Concordia, MO.