A Load of Bull From WELS President-in-Waiting Wayne Mueller

Donated By: Wayne Mueller
Est. Value: $500.00

Description: Jack-of-all-trades Wayne Mueller offers a quarter of a locally "grown" Black Angus steer to the selective carnivores among us. Lovingly tended and masterfully groomed (okay, that's stretching it) by Pastor Wayne, these prime cuts will eliminate the need to ask, "Where's the beef?"

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GJ - This is from the Junk for Jesus sale at Luther Prep. If the Wisconsin sect keeps writing self-parodies, I will not have to write my own parodies. I can just copy their material and leave the readers rolling in the aisles.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Load of Bull From WELS President-in-Waiting Wayn...":

That auction is absolutely appalling. I am just floored that WELS people support this. Auctioning off parking spaces for sporting events and sacred concerts and services of a personal attendant for the live auction? I need to go vomit.

Junk for Jesus Sale at Luther Prep

Actual graphic from Luther Prep Website, quoted below:

Welcome to Luther Prep's 3rd Annual Gala and ONLINE Auction!

LIGHTS! CAMERA! AUCTION! – Gala Event is Saturday, April 19, 2008 from 4:30-9:30.

We still have room for guests – but purchase seats soon.
We’re still taking donations – but let us know soon.

Join in the fun by looking over the items that have been donated. Just click on “VIEW AUCTION CATALOG”. More items added daily.

Bid at the Gala, via proxy bidder [rothedk@lps.wels.net to secure this], or in our Online Auction.

ONLINE AUCTION: April 5-9

All the donated items are in the online catalog – some are VIEW ONLY, some are ONLINE BIDDING ONLY.

This ONLINE BIDDING opens at 6am CST on Saturday, April 5 and stays open for bidding through 8pm Wednesday, April 9 CST.

You’ll have to register to bid online. This secures we know who won the item with the highest bid. A few items have a “reserve” of a certain amount that must be met or the item can not be sold per the bidder’s wishes.

Bidding follows the online established rules like an ebay bidding: Ready Set Auction will automatically bid up at $1.00 increments to your maximum bid you entered. Someone else becomes high bidder when they surpass the maximum amount you entered. Check back often – email rothedk@lps.wels.net should you have trouble or any questions.

Thank You

As we read in II Corinthians 9:12 “This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.”

WE THANK YOU for THANKING GOD through your joyful gifts to Luther Prep!

Questions: Call Debbie at 920.262.8104 or email rothedk@lps.wels.net

The entire catalogue is available by clicking this link.

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And who is the hatchet man of the Little Sect on the Prairie? The Right Rev. Kincaid Smith, DMin in Church Growth, Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne.

Every synodical pope loves to have a hatchet man to do his wet work.

You Can't Do This! I Know My Rites! Anglicans Steal a March on Moldstad

Bishop Gene Robinson: "May I pick the hymns?"
FLORIDA: Bishop Formally Fires 22 Priests

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
4/5/2008

On March 25, the Bishop of Florida, the Rt. Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, formally fired 22 priests from the Diocese of Florida the largest single group of priests to be deposed in the history of the Epsicopal Church at one time.

In a letter obtained by Virtueonline, Howard wrote, "By my action today, with the advice and the consent of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Florida, and pursuant to Canon IV.10.2.ii, I hereby release from the obligations of priests (for causes which do not affect the person's moral character) and deprive of the right to exercise the gifts and spiritual authority conferred in ordination upon:

The Rev. David C. Allert, Priest
The Rev. Charles S. Bailey, Deacon
The Rev. Gary Blaylock, Priest
The Rev. Charles H. Colt, Priest
The Rev. Gilbert T. Crosby, Priest
The Rev. Mark Eldredge, Priest
The Rev. Travis Greenman, Priest
The Rev. Edwin C. Griswold, Priest
The Rev. George W. Hall, Jr., Priest
The Rev. Harald K. Haugan, Priest
The Rev. Dorothy Head, Deacon
The Rev. James L. Hobby, Priest
The Rev. Sharon S. Hobby, Priest
The Rev W. Hall Hunt, Priest
The Rev. Neil G. Lebhar, Priest
The Rev. Petrina A. McCarty, Deacon
The Rev. Lawrence E. O'Connell, Priest
The Rev. William Earl Palmer, Priest
The Rev. James M. Parker, Priest
The Rev. Shawn E. Porter, Priest
The Rev. Leonard Eugene Strickland,Priest
The Rev. George W. Stockhowe, Jr., Priest

Neither Strickland nor Porter were ever inhibited, a source told VOL.

This action is taken after expiration of the six month period of inhibition for abandonment of the communion of this church and failure of either of the above named individuals to communicate any retraction of any declaration of act relied upon in the determination that the above individuals have abandoned the communion of this church.

The letter was dated March 25, 2008 And signed by the Rt. Rev Samuel Johnson Howard VII Bishop of Florida.

The letter was signed in the presence of two witnesses the Rev. Gayanne Silver and the Rev. Sandra K. Moyle.

The letter was forwarded to the Presiding Bishop, Recorder of Ordinations, The Secretary of the House of Bishops, The Church Deployment Office and the Bishops of the Episcopal Authority (or Ecclesiastical Authority of each) and to various offices in the Diocese of Florida.

All of the above priests challenged the Episcopal Church on pansexuality and the church's ordination of an avowed homosexual to the episcopacy, the formal acceptance of homosexual behavior for clergy, the blessing of same sex unions, same-sex rites, and the abandonment of the authority of Scripture. They believed the church had moved beyond the bounds of Scripture to endorse behavior that endangered their souls and those of their parishioners.

Most of the priests have entered into formal association with Continuing Anglican jurisdictions that are orthodox in faith and morals.

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/content/Howard_Pronouncement_Letter_3-25-08.pdf

Buffalo Bob Was WELS

Buffalo Bob Smith, mentor to Howdy Doody, served as a WELS organist in North Carolina. The Howdy Doody Show was one of our favorites, a true classic.

Buffalo Bob Smith - The celebrity nickname of Bob Smith, the host of the classic children's puppet series HOWDY DOODY/NBC/1947-60. With the assistance of a silent clown named Clarabell, Buffalo Bob Smith, entertained the children in his audience (known as the Peanut Gallery) and interacted with all sorts of comic characters including the freckle-faced puppet star of the show, Howdy Doody. On earlier episodes Buffalo Bob Smith was just called Mr. Smith but by 1948 he was known as Buffalo Bob, a name given him by the Sycapoose Indians, a friendly tribe of American Indians who lived near the circus town of Doodyville. Buffalo Bob wore a yellow buckskin outfit with red fringe and buffalo insignias, supposedly because he was a descendent of Buffalo Bill. At the beginning of each program Buffalo Bob asked "Say, kids, What time is it? The kids then yelled "It's Howdy Doody Time!" Before taking on his role as host of THE HOWDY DOODY SHOW, Bob Smith was a member of the "Hi-Hatters," a radio singing group popular in the 1930s. Coincidentally, Bob Smith was born in Buffalo, New York. He died of cancer on July 30, 1998 near his home at Flat Rock, North Carolina. A replica of Howdy Doody resides in the Smithsonian Institution.

Here is a great link about Buffalo Bob, explaining the keyboard and North Carolina connection.

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(AP) "Buffalo Bob" Smith, the host of The Howdy Doody Show in the early years of television, died Thursday of cancer. He was 80.

Smith, who lived in the western North Carolina town of Flat Rock, died at a hospital in nearby Hendersonville, said family publicist Kelly Stitch. She said the family would not release further details.

Fans knew the opening routine of the show by heart. Smith would shout out, "What time is it?" and the Peanut Gallery - the kiddie studio audience - would respond with glee: "It's Howdy Doody time!"

Even though the TV show went off the air in 1960 after 13 seasons and more than 2,500 shows, Buffalo Bob and the freckle-faced marionette Howdy Doody were more than celebrities to millions of baby boomers across the country.

They became like a member of the family to their young fans and the young at heart. Columnist Bob Greene wrote in 1987 that the show "may have been the most important cultural landmark for my generation."

"I always liked kids," Smith, the father of three sons, said in an interview in 1994. "You can't kid a kid. They know right away if you like them or not."

Among the show's other much-loved characters in the town Doodyville, U.S.A.: Clarabell the Clown, Princess Summerfall Winterspring, Phineas T. Bluster, Dilly Dally, Chief Thunderthud, Trapper John and Flubadub. One of the performers who played Clarabell was Bob Keeshan, later to become TV's Captain Kangaroo.

"No one knows how hard we worked all those years," Smith told People magazine in 1987. "Live TV is the most difficult thing to do in the world. You're on the spot all the time."

Recovering from a 1954 heart attack that sidelined him for months, he actually did some appearances from a specially built studio in the basement of his home.

After his return to the NBC studio in 1955, he told The Associated Press he drove himself out of "a feeling of pride. You're happy that people want you to entertain them." He said the heart attack taught him to "remember your limits."

In the 1960s, Smith retreated from his spot in front of the TV camera and went back into radio, this time as an owner. He bought three radio stations and dabbled in real estate.

In 1970, he got a call out of the blue from a student at the University of Pennsylvania, who asked him to bring along Howdy Doody to the school and do a show.

"I thought he was putting me on," Smith said.

He wasn't.

College students who had grown up watching Howdy Doody felt right at home back in the Peanut Gallery. Over the next six years, Smith and his famous sidekick made hundreds of appearances across the country.

He and Mildred, his wife of more than 57 years, moved to Flat Rock in 1991 to spend more time on his other passion, golf. He still made occasional appearances at nostalgia events, bringing his marionette with he snub nose and perpetual smile with him.

Smith got his start on the radio and his nickname in his hometown, Buffalo, N.Y.

"I did just about everything you could do on the radio when I was 15," he said. Two years later, singer Kate Smith came to Buffalo.

Smith joined her vaudeville act, playing the piano at times and other times playing master of ceremonies. He was back working successfully in radio when NBC was looking for someone in 1947 to be host of a children's television show.

That was the birth of The Howdy Doody Show.

Despite his efforts to keep a low profile in later years, Smith's trademark "Buffalo Bob" voice always seemed to give him away.

"I walk into a supermarket and nobody recognizes me," he said in the 1994 interview. "Then I open my mouth and somebody always says, 'That's Buffalo Bob!'"

In addition to his wife, Smith is survived by sons Robin, Ronald, and Christopher and three grandchildren.

A private memorial service is planned but no date was given.