Spencer (WELS) Excited about Church and Change

SP Schroeder is no longer "excited about Church and Change," which was falsely reported on the Church and Change website. However, the official WELS website still has a 2004 article, by Church Growth maven James Aderman, gushing about the conference.

Spencer Excited about C and C

“I can’t believe there are so many exciting things going on in WELS,” says Barry Spencer, a lay leader at Immanuel, Medford, Wis.

Spencer found out about these exciting things from Church and Change, a three-day conference in November when 180 WELS members—men and women, called workers and laity—came to share ministry ideas, encourage each other, and celebrate God’s grace through Word and sacrament. It was funded by a grant from WELS’ 150th anniversary thankoffering.

This was the fourth and final conference that was hosted in connection with the Board for Parish Services for WELS members who are carrying on innovative ministries. Its purpose? To encourage and enable WELS congregations and individuals to better serve their Savior.

Cheryl Nelson from St. John, Minneapolis, Minn., appreciated that encouragement. “Church and Change has given me ideas and tools to take back to my congregation,” she says.

Church and Change is more than a once-a-year conference. It’s a clearinghouse for workable ministry models. Its Web site, ChurchAndChange.org, lists descriptions of hundreds of innovative approaches to ministry along with contacts for more information. Ideas on the Web site range from renting storefronts for conducting teen ministry to having members act out sketches before the sermon to prepare people for the answers that God’s Word provides to offering a “ladies’ power hour” that combines Bible study with aerobics.

Idea sharing also happens year round on the organization’s e-mail listserve.

James Aderman


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WELS Kingdom Workers Invited People to Attend Church and Change

YOU ARE INVITED

to attend the Church and Change Conference in Milwaukee, Wis., October 15-17, 2007. WELS members will conduct workshops focusing on five ministry areas: adult discipleship, women’s ministries, children and youth, outreach evangelism, and worship. All WELS members are encouraged to attend.Those who attend will gain a greater appreciation of the grace of God, and receive information about gospel ministries for use in their congregations. The goal of our conference is in keeping with a resolution passed at the WELS convention, which states: “be it resolved that we commit ourselves to expand mission efforts at home and throughout the world, using both traditional and innovative means of gospel outreach, as God provides the resources.”For more information about Church & Change and the conference, visit www.churchandchange.org.

WELS Kingdom Workers
414-771-6848 or 1-800-466-9357

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Spencer (WELS) Excited about Church and Change":

I wonder which of the Board of Apostates decided it would be good to tell everyone the convention made them do it...or the pres. is excited about it.

Misinformation. Deception. Twisting words. False teachers, anyone?

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Spencer (WELS) Excited about Church and Change":

Well, its official. I'll never consider helping or supporting WELS Kingdom Workers ever again.