The Pope Speaks, which is the official newsletter of Pope John the Malefactor, issued this chilling announcement:
Clergy Transfer
Pastor Wayne Borgwardt has accepted a call to serve Holy Scripture (WELS) in Red Deer, Alberta. His clergy membership is therefore being transferred to our sister synod. Wayne will continue serving Thoughts of Faith, but now as a newly elected member of the Board of Directors. We wish God’s blessing on the Borgwardts as Wayne takes up his new pastoral charge in Canada.
Borgwardt did some of the heavy lifting in getting rid of Northwestern College (WELS), Watertown. They called it amalgamation. Pastor Guy Purdue called it The Anschluss. More importantly, Borgwardt helped organize the ELCA-WELS-LCMS conference in Florida with Martin Marty as the featured speaker.
In 1992, I was sitting in the office of an LCMS executive, in charge of Church Growth for Missouri. He explained how WELS worked with ELCA and Missouri, "The two Waynes worked with us." That would be Wayne Mueller and Wayne Borgwardt. I asked if the ELS was invited to participate. He said, "No, they are statistically insignificant."
Fortunately, Borgwardt will be far enough away from the Vatican of the Little Sect on the Prairie that no one will notice him.
Meanwhile, Kincaid Smith's son is busy in India. Kincaid is the official hatchet man of the ELS.
My mother taught me this song for rainy days, but it work for Wayney days, too:
Wayne, Wayne, go away.
Come again some other day.
