All the WELS Hogs Are Lined Up for Funds: None Left for Confessional Lutherans

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Willow Creek and St. Mark Depere (WELS): Together ...":

How much money flows from WELS and LCMS to the Willow Creek Association?

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GJ - I will step in as AnswerMan for WELS. The Wisconsin Synod gave Church and Change a grant to get started.

The board of Church and Change considers itself the ruler of the synod. Bruce Becker (Church and Change board; heresiarch, Parish Services) hired Paul Kelm in his furtive, stealthy way, in opposition to the repeated, expressed wishes of SP Schroeder. That was just in time to run up more bills while all church bodies and charities were in financial meltdown.

Willow Creek Community Church requires tribute of some sort to list WELS and other churches on their website. They also give a juicy discount to member churches for training, so Willow Creek get paid double - first for membership, second for training staff in apostasy and hatred of Lutheran doctrine. Everyone has to agree to Willow Creek doctrine to be listed.

All the Church Growth people have occupied the - ah - feeding stations, draining away support for actual Means of Grace work. Millions of dollars could be saved by weaning the greedy little piglets:

No more free vicars for VP Patterson.
No more "experiments" like Rock N Roll Church funded with WELS money.
No more synod drones paid to promotoe Fuller and Willow Creek doctrine.
No more world mission and American mission CG "experiments".
No more mission counselors promoting Church Growth.