NPH - You Should Read Babtist Andy Stanley

Ski: "Tolja."


Babtist Andy Stanely, Mentor to WELS Pastors Ski, Parlow, Buske

Northwestern Publishing House:

"Fields of Gold, A Place Beyond Your Deepest Fears; Andy Stanley; Tyndale; Hard Cover; Practical Life/ Finance; For pastors, adults, young adults; $13.99; Babtist, conservative: The author presents a fine case for determining giving practices. Christians need to be trained in trusting God enough to be able to support His work with his offerings. The author bases his reasons on Scripture and presents some stories from his experiences. It is an easy read with much food for thought. Pastors would find some good ideas for commitment/stewardship sermons."

Bush-Clinton Era Over

The first Bush was elected Vice-President in 1980. For 28 years we have had either a Bush or a Clinton at the top. McCain was Bush's pick for president. When McCain was finished financially, Bush introduced McCain to his top supporters and gave McCain access to his mailing lists.

McCain never hid his contempt for conservatives, but they were willing to vote for him to prevent a bomber's friend from becoming president. Many think McCain would have won except for the manufactured financial meltdown. Revulsion was almost universal about the immediate response of President Bush, Treasury Secretary (Goldman Sachs vet) Paulson, and Congress - to bailout the criminals who created the mortgage crisis.

This rush to give financial incompetents and crooks $700 billion+ was far too much to be accepted by voters who were fighting to save their homes, to keep their credit available, and to maintain an income with so many industries failing.

The financial crisis will deepen with the new Congress and President. We need another Reagan.

Church and Change Evangelism Workshop

3 / 7 / 2009-Evangelism Workshop-Coordinated by Share Grace Consortium ...

http://www.churchandchange.org/site/search1.asp?sec_id=2384&search_assoc=&zoom_query=2009+conference&zoom_page=1&zoom_per_page=10&zoom_cat=-1&zoom_and=0&zoom_sort=0

These are the congregations in Share Grace.

I did a search and found this on the Church and Change calendar, so it is safe to say the congregations are friendly with Church and Change. One of them, Jim Aderman, has been deep into Church Growth for many years.

Funny, the Ed Stetzer Babtist Conference for 2009 is not listed anywhere on the site, even though Stetzer listed it on his schedule (as WELS Church and Change no less), blogged about it (I Like Lutherans) and twittered when he got the contract.

The cloaking device must still be on at Church and Change headquarters, a secure, undisclosed location.

Church and Change - Stealthy to the C.O.R.E

Ron Ash, Chairman of the Bored, Church and Change,
Pastor of St. Peter, Appleton

Pastor Ski, Member of the Bored, Church and Change
Ski: "Solid Rock Ministry? That's too hard to say. Let's try C.O.R.E."

Welcome Pastor Ski & Family!!

Pastor James Skorzewski (you are encouraged and free to call him Pastor Ski for the sake of ease) accepted the call to serve as the pastor of our daughter congregation and he and his family have now officially relocated to the Appleton area. Pastor Ski and his wife Janinne have been married for 13 years and have 3 children; Abbie (11), Megan (9), both of whom are in our Christian Elementary School, and Jackson (21 months). We are excited to have them here in the area and wish them all God’s blessings as they serve the Lord here in Appleton and as Pastor Ski begins his ministry at The CORE (this is the new church’s official name).

Pastor Ski will be installed in the 10:30 a.m. service here at St. Peter on November 16th. The service will take place in the gymnasium and there will be light refreshments served before and after the service allowing everyone the opportunity to meet Pastor Ski and his family. The service will be similar in style to what the daughter congregation might be like. Make plans to be there on that day to welcome Pastor Ski to the area and wish him God’s blessings on his outreach efforts at The CORE.

The CORE has no members (other than Pastor Ski’s family) to officially welcome them, so to welcome them to our area, we are going to collect canned goods and other food to help stock their food pantry as well as any household paper products (paper towels, etc.) that can be used by them in their new home. There will also be a box out for the next few weeks to collect monetary gifts which we will put towards a gift card to a local grocery store. Please mark the bags for this with the words "SKI FAMILY". Once again, welcome Pastor Ski and family.

MEANING of the name "The CORE"

The new daughter congregation will be called "The CORE". The idea behind that is first and foremost that Christ is at the core of everything we do as a church and should be at the core of everything we do as Christians. At The CORE we will help you strengthen your most important core, your spiritual core. The letters are also significant:

C = connected to others and Christ

O = overhauling your life with the Gospel

R = reconciled to God through Christ

E = engaged in the world with the Gospel

Ultimately that is what we are about – connecting people in a personal relationship with their Savior and other Christians which inevitably transforms their lives because of the power of the Gospel and then encouraging people to share that.

http://www.stpetercares.com/home/2440/2440/docs/Church%20Newsletter%20-%20November%202008.doc?sec_id=2440

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GJ - Rev. Ron Ash is the pastor of the sponsoring WELS congregation, St. Peter in Appleton, Wisconsin. Someone said they already had 40 WELS congregations in the area, so C.O.R.E. must be meeting a vital mission need. Or maybe they just got a juicy grant from one of their Church and Change connections, like Bored Member Bruce Becker, head of WELS Perish Services. At any rate, Jeske's church has one less mouth to feed during a drought of donations. Ditto, St. Mark, Depere (Paul Kelm call to The Love Shack).

Overheard at a WELS' pastoral conference - "Ichabod is finally lerning how to spell."