Todd Morr is a missionary and leads Missional Made Simple with his wife Hannah from San Diego, CA. Learn more at missionalmadesimple.com Today we're joined with him and Kirk Crager, Discipleship Pastor at Calvary Boise and host of the Cultivate Community  Conference May 13-14.Transcript:[00:00:00] :  you're listening to the City Network podcast. Our mission is to grow and multiply healthy churches in the Treasure Valley and beyond. Head to the city network dot org for more info on our initiatives to catalyze church transformation and church planting. Here's today's podcast. All right, Welcome to the City Network podcast. My name is robert Frazier and I get the privilege to be a part of the team that leads same network and host the podcast with my friend josh Brandon. He's not here today, but today we have a couple of special guests. Um First off, I want to introduce to you uh Kirk Kreager who's a dear friend of mine, I think we know each other like 21 22 years, something like that. He's an old man, that's how, that's how, you know, you've known somebody for 22 years, they have gray in their hair. Yeah. And then Kirk Kirk, you've been overseas for about what, 15 of those years and then moved back just a few years ago and been part of um calvary Boise is the groups and community pastor, Welcome to the podcast. Hey, thanks robert Yeah, 17 years in Italy for three years and in England for 14 years. So crazy journey in that sense, like learning different cultures and experiencing just what God was doing in those places and then yeah, back here calvary Boise, Communities and mission aled discipleship pastor, that's kind of my role and what I'm supposed to be doing trying Yeah, I'm trying that's I think what we're all doing, trying Yeah, you and Kirk, you've invited uh my new friend Todd more to come join us. You have known Todd from your time in europe. But he's gonna be here in a couple of weeks and we wanted to introduce him to folks and his organization. Mission made simple. So would you just tell us a little bit about Todd before we jump in? Yeah, Todd and I first met in Manchester England. He came over, he was with some at the time and I think he came over through a friend of mine, James Deering down in Birmingham. We got connected, came up and met with a few of us pastors in Stockport was part of Manchester over there and just kind of connected and and really helped coach us through a little bit on the concepts of mission of community and what it looked like to live out the mission of God and community. And then I went down to Birmingham the next day and we had a little conference and we took some of our leaders and that was kind of transformative for our church in a lot of ways. Like it really helped to kind of coalesce a lot of the leadership lessons we were trying to kind of get across and learn ourselves at the time. So that's where I met Todd and then we just had a couple of connection points since then, I can't remember Todd, were you in the Czech Republic one time when I was there, I can't I know you're you're over there a lot but I think we might have met in Prague one time too. Yeah. So yeah, I lived in check for seven years and I helped organize that. It's probably the gathering we did when timothy came and uh we pulled in leaders for about 10 different countries. Yeah. Yeah. So that was great. Todd tell us a little bit about yourself, Tell us your your story, your journey really. You know the one minute version of what you've been doing and why? Why you're here? One minute version. Um Yeah, I grew up in Illinois midwesterner but God led me after I finished bible school and moody bible institute to eastern europe back in 1994. Um So it was just after the revolutions and we started planting youth ministries and then planting churches in some of the least churched, you know, countries in the world Less than 1%. So that's a big part of the story. What we're talking about here is um...