Done for the Green Bay Pregnancy Council in St. Mark Lutheran Church Located in De Pere, WI you can see at the end of this song i couldn't finish it because of a sore throat but hey... oh well.
Category: Music
Tags: In christ alone lutheran wels christian solo black God Church
A female soldier blogged about Jaie Fletcher, and another young woman added a comment.
Jaie is married to Lindsey, the daughter of St Mark's Minister of Family and Music, Phil Boileau. Phil and Vicki Boileau sing on the Praise Team videos.
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Church and Change Conference
NSC Events
Faith Building provided information to churches that are preparing to expand, renovate, or build. Geared towards contemporary worship needs, but useful information for traditional worship as well.
Topics Covered: General contracting methods, acoustics, audio, video, lighting, fund raising, considerations that will affect music worship, how to get your church/congregation geared up and headed in the right direction, organ: the instrument, the acoustics, pipes & digital considerations.
Presenters:
Timothy Rinn - The Selmer Company
John Gillespie of the Bayside Growth Team - Capital Stewardship and Fundraising
Val Bartlien - Classic Church Organs
Pastor John Parlow - Senior Pastor at St Mark Lutheran Church in De Pere
Roger Ihde - Northern Sound & Video Contracting
Scott Rolfs - Ziegler's Church & School Finance Group
Phil Morrigan - Archdiocese of Chicago
The first of it's (sic) kind, Church and Change Worship Conference was held at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in De Pere, WI. The church showcases state-of-the-art sound and video projection systems installed by NSC. Phillip Boileau of St. Mark's organized the multiple day event that included two contemporary Christian music concerts with praise bands from California, Minnesota, and two groups from St. Mark's. The conference and concerts were well received with over 170 registered attendees for the presentations, and more than 300 people per night for the concerts.
The conference was designed to help churches start a contemporary worship service or refine their current services, by supplying them with information on everything from how to introduce contemporary worship to the congregation, music, Power Point software, and the technologies that are available. Roger Ihde, sales manager/designer for NSC, presented available sound and video projection equipment and technologies as tools for a contemporary worship. Roger also played the guitar in the praise band from St. Mark's on Thursday night. NSC was honored to be a part of the conference and was delighted to be able to provide direction for the churches that attended, as well as expertise for the concerts.
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Ex Corde
Music "from the heart"
Author: Dorothy J. Sonntag
The Northwestern Lutheran
If you think of church workers as staid and somber, the members of Ex Corde want to change your mind.
When this musical group is performing, they engage in antics that might be described as undignified and tell jokes best described as groaners. They display emotion openly--especially their happiness in the Lord.
The message they want to get across is that serving the Lord brings joy. And they'd like the young people in their audiences to think about serving him, too.
All of the group are in the ministry. Phil and Vicki Boileau, Ric Gibson, and Lyle Strehler teach in Lutheran schools. Dan Simons and Rod Pudell are pastors.
"We want to show that pastors and teachers can have fun," said Phil Boileau, "that we're normal people."
"We try to encourage kids to consider being pastors and teachers, or to serve the Lord in some other way," added Vicki. "We want to show them we have fun doing what we do, and they could, too."
"We're proclaiming Christ through music and having fun at it, " said Lyle Strehler, "and we always make it a point to try to get kids interested in the work of the church. After a concert, a lot of them talk to us about the ministry."
The group got started when Ric Gibson was in charge of planning the entertainment for the 1981 youth rally. He called on his friends for help, and they put together a musical group. After the rally they received requests to perform at church functions and Lutheran high schools. They've appeared regularly at subsequent youth rallies, and they recently made a tape.
At first they played secular music. In 1985 the group presented its first concert of Christian contemporary music. Simons calls the concert a "key turning point. CCM was new to us, and we liked it."
"It was so much fun," Vicki said. "We liked being together and doing our music. And to praise God, too! It was a spiritual high."
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Ol' Time Rock N Roll
One of the noteworthy WELS examples nationally is St. Mark Lutheran Church in De Pere. About 80% of the music that its praise band plays comes from top-selling contemporary Christian music. The church, which has a $150,000 audio-visual system with two big video screens, has nearly 2,000 members and needs to expand beyond the new facility it built a few years ago, said Phil Boileau, its minister of music and family.
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WELS Staff Minister
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Join us for our annual Praise Concert, Friday, November 14 starting at 7pm.
Enjoy great music, great friends and a chance to hear the message of hope which Jesus brings through the songs we sing! This won't be a choir concert! This is a chance to rock with the Rock, our awesome God!
So come on out and join us! Everyone is welcome! There is no cost to attend, so bring your friends!
If you would like more information, contact the church office at 336-2485 or e-mail us. We'd love to hear from you!
2066 Lawrence Drive, De Pere, WI 54115 920-336-2485
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
In Christ Alone by Jaie Fletcher
We Will Stand-WELS Lutheran Church in Wisconsin
A finale of the night, all the folks who participated in the fund raiser came up and joined on this song... how touching.
Category: Music
Tags: We will stand Lutheran WELS Christian Russ Taft God Church Concert
You Raise Me Up by Jaie Fletcher
You Raise me up...Done for the Green Bay Pregnancy Council in St. Mark Lutheran Church Located in De Pere, WI.
Victory Chant by Jaie Fletcher And Members of St. Mark Praise Team
Rockin the Lutheran church again... went all the way back to Green Bay from Nashville to do this one song... had a blast...
Category: Music
Tags: Victory chant lutheran wels christian concert amateur
St. Mark's Paul Kelm Will Now Show WELS How To Worship Right:
For Sure! Seriously! Awesomely! Totally!
From: Jaie2007
Added: April 30, 2008
This song may not be the greatest to some of you professionals, but the fact that they allowed me to do it in a Lutheran Church using their praise and worship singers is AWESOME...this church is ready for a revolution!
Category: Music
Tags: Gospel Revolutionary Lutheran WELS Christian Concert
That's how we do it at St. Mark's. Go home and tell your friends.
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Church and Change - Why WELS Is Broke Again
or more to bail out Detroit auto unions
via the Big Three.
Ford can be bought today for $2 billion.
GM for around the same amount.
The Church Shrinkage Movement in WELS is far older than the stealth agency called Church and Change. Nevertheless, Church and Change is now the official arm of the radical rejection of Lutheran doctrine and worship in WELS.
The key figures in the Church and Change lodge go back 30 years. Starting TELL magazine with Ron Roth as the editor was the first warning shot. Their journal, The Pope Speaks (aka WLQ) even announced that TELL was begun to promote the Church Growth Movement. SP Naumann wrote an introduction for TELL, which was printed at The Love Shack.
The comatose clergy failed to notice.
For the last three decades Church Shrinkers have installed themselves in every possible nook and cranny of the sect. Every Evangelism Secretary has been Church Growth, starting with Paul Kelm. Every Parish Consultant has been trained at Fuller Seminary (Huebner, Kelm, Olson). Every head of Parish Services, American and world missions has been Church Growth. Church Growth professors are the weevils at MLC (nee DMLC) and The Sausage Factory. WELS got rid of Northwestern College because it was the last bastion of resistance to Church Growth doctrine. However, no one wanted to admit it. The NWC faculty surrendered passively and marched off to New Ulm to be rendered the capons they already proved themselves to be.
The Church and Changers are not an open-minded, loving, forgiving bunch. They are vindictive, vengeful, and obsessed with finishing their take-over the synod. They almost did it, but their finger-puppet, SP Gurgel, got tossed by popular demand. Next, President-in-Waiting Wayne Mueller quit in a huff because his sovereignty was denied. Wayne is known for insisting on the last word in every debate. Some are gone but not forgotten: Wayne is forgotten but not gone.
Let's go back a few years. The Love Shack broke into a collective sweat when St. Marvin of Schwan suddenly reached room temperature. I was one of the first to know. I phoned Otten, and he said, "What? Are you sure?" I said, "Well, don't run with it until you check it out, but yes, I am sure."
Why the sweat at The Love Shack? An insider told me that Schwan checks arrived there but they were not booked with everything else. One official took the check from the staffer and said, "I will take care of that." That money was never recorded officially. I could tell you who told me that story. He is well known in the synod.
The Paul Kuske report on synod funds--which doubtless helped Gurgel face retirement (or prison)--is still one of the most popular pages on Ichabod. The report shows how money was mismanaged by The Love Shack. That is but one reason why WELS is broke again.
Another reason is the way The Love Shack blew through all the Schwan Foundation funds and then some. I will not say, "They spent money like drunken sailors," because sailors spend their own dough. The Love Shack drones spent millions and millions on their pet projects, trying to be a big synod when they are really a shrinking sect.
Not content to use up the Schwan funds on Wild Hair Projects, they went through millions in designated funds until the Treasurer of the synod stopped them. Gurgel fired his friend and blamed his friend for the mess. The next story they told was about an accounting glitch. Sure.
So SP Schroeder is trying to make up for years of financial mis-management. WELS wants to be big but spending its way into bigness has not worked. One thing is needful, and the majority of the leaders have abandoned that in the name of growth, prosperity, and another trip around the world to inspect missions.
Meanwhile, the Church Shrinkers have laid waste to the sect for decades. WELS has kicked out pastors for favoring the KJV over the NIV (heresy!), for questioning involvement in and subordination to Thrivent (show them the money), and for scowling at Church Growth doctrine (their one true love, besides themselves).
Every victim of Church and Change has an extended family. When they all get their appeals (if they still belong), do they empty their wallets for more of the same treatment? I doubt it. More likely, they say, "I still remember..."
I know relatively few WELS members and pastors, but I know a lot of families devastated by the synodical leaders forcing the head of the family out of the ministry. WELS pastors have no marketable skills, so that throws them into poverty. Betrayed by the leaders and abandoned by so-called friends, these men have to sell aluminum siding or cars until they are broken down enough to be allowed back in.
Based on population growth alone, WELS should be much bigger today than it was 30 years ago. Instead, the core givers and attenders are ready for the rocking chair or eternal life. WELS has driven out too many people to survive another 20 years.
The only solution is something left unused and untried for a generation or more - the efficacious Word combined with faithfulness to the Confessions.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Church and Change - Why WELS Is Broke Again":
Dr. Jasckson,
Don't you know how wrong your argument is with respect to the financial crisis in WELS ?
The 2007 convention found that it did not need to make any type of major cuts. Everything could still be funded. All is well.
We are told again and again that "money is not the issue" in WELS.
Our pastors, with their education in classical Greek, Hebrew and Latin are in high demand in private industry for their much in-demand translation skills.
We are even now building a cathederal at Martin Luther College, a science wing at MLS (which we saved at the 2007 convention), and a new dormitory at Luther Prep (each student should now be able to have a private room).
Why do you continue to be a scare monger, Dr. Jackson?
Napolean Bonaparte
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GJ - Scaremonger? My little Corsican lieutenant, I am just talking about reality. The edifice complex you mentioned is a good example of little WELS trying to be a big synod.
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