Web Cam

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A group of layman asked me about extending our services. We have a small group in three states worshiping together twice a month.

The laymen investigated and found a way to put the audio and video up (live) through a web cam. Those with a cam can view each other. Those without can click on the link, watch, and listen. They only need an Internet connection and broadband (cable or DSL). Dial up does not work with huge graphic files.

We used to videotape services for a man with ALS (Columbus). He and his wife said video made it seem like they were there.

We will be able to record the services and provide them through a website. We did an initial test the other day. The quality of the picture was superb. Sound is trickier.

We will not be able to match the production values of the big, honking Church Growth operations, but we will not hide the Lutheran name either.

Who Told You?, Part II

"Who told you?"

"Who told you?" is a signal that someone has identified a scandalous WELS event, a warning to forget it, as the creatures forgot the Piper at the Gates of Dawn in The Wind in the Willows.

I drove by a town in Arizona where a former WELS member lives. He was in business so he saw through the Church Growth marketing of WELS.

He said one day, "The big Church Growth pastor's hand-picked successor left the ministry due to depression."

I said, "Really? What was her name?"

He shot back, "Who told you?"

I replied, "When a WELS pastor leaves the ministry suddenly over depression, a woman is involved. Just be glad it's a woman."

Lenski explained it a long time ago. He was a genius in New Testament exegesis but also a District President. That was when a DP could have an IQ bigger than his belt size. Lenski said, based on his experience, that a man who was unfaithful to the Word was also unfaithful in other areas of life.

Up the Creek In a Yacht

District Pope Janke

When DP Janke said he was returning to his first love, the congregation, he failed to insert "huge and choice" in the message.

Janke has a call to Jefferson - not Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. Jefferson has had problems with declining membership and income. Doubtless Janke has the answers. Confirmation classes will be shorter in length, with only Nine Commandments to teach.

One anonymous person said I was peddling old news about DP Mueller and VP Kuske. Not at all, gentle readers. The same news is constantly recycled in WELS because people tolerate dictatorial and corrupt leaders. Their DP style is a template from Hell, where their master rules. They drive sound pastors out of the ministry while protecting clergy adulterers and blatant false teachers. They have bowels of Evangelical compassion for divorced pastors and unfaithful pastors, but hatred toward happily married pastors who are faithful to the Word and actually read the Confessions.

Observe another mark of WELS leadership - When they get into trouble, they leave town - or the country. DP Mueller was suddenly called to Russia. SP Gurgel went to Hong Kong, a move that might have been considered an act of war, except no one knows what the Wisconsin sect is in that colony.\

Holy Mother WELS is indefectible.