Four students from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind., participate in LCMS Rural and Small Town Mission’s first “Rural Immersion” event Feb. 25-March 4 at Concordia, Mo.
“You’re here today because our church has said, ‘We’re not giving up on rural America,’ ” says Missouri District President Rev. Ray Mirly at the installation of the Rev. Todd Kollbaum, new director of Rural and Small Town Mission.
The Rev. Todd E. Kollbaum has accepted the call to serve as director of Rural and Small Town Mission for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). He will begin serving in this role April 1.
By Roland Lovstad The Rev. Mark Nebel recalls that when he began serving his first call at a small congregation in Southern Illinois, there were no children in the worship services. “The mentality was ‘We’re too old, we’re too small,…
By Roland Lovstad Craig Pankow refuses to accept the notion that his small-town congregation in North Dakota will close for lack of members. In fact, he wants to encourage other rural and small-town churches to visualize outreach as a viable…
By Roland Lovstad Rev. Todd Kollbaum admits there were times when he prayed God would send him a call or derail the effort to build a regional ministry among three congregations in rural Cole Camp, Mo. “Time after time, God…
By Roland Lovstad LCMS ministry in rural areas and small towns can be summarized with a couple of 50 percent statistics: Slightly more than half of the 6,000-plus LCMS congregations are in communities with fewer than 15,000 population, and about…
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