Someone asked how the most anti-confessional congregations got so much money from WELS Kingdom Workers - and for the worst excuses.
Here is one reason:
Board Member for Church and Chicanery
Another reason is - Church and Chicanery teaches its cult members how to apply for synod grants.
In addition - Jeff Gunn is a star of C and C, so he is going to get the funds to keep the illusion of a WELS congregation alive. In truth, under the watchful eye of DP Janke and DP Buchholz, the congregation could join the Evangelical Convenant sect and no CrossWalk member would know the difference.
That is exactly what happened to the stealth congregation in South Lyon, Michigan. That congregation had three WELS pastors pushing it into the orbit of the Evangelical Covenant group.
Jeff Gunn has statements on his website almost identical to the South Lyon ex-Lutheran congregation. What a coincidence.
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WELS members must adore their beloved leaders. After all they continue to support the adulteration and corruption. Are they nutters all?
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GJ - The members are deceived about where their money is going. As soon as a pastor sticks his neck and talks about it, he is gone. There are only two blogs that address the issues, Ichabod and Bailing Water. Church and Change, in contrast, is well funded and larded up with Love Shack employees. Or, to put it another way, The Love Shack is larded up with Church and Chicanery people - some overt (Bruce Becker, Paul Kelm) and some covert.
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$48,000 to be an administrative assistant at a Rock and Roll church with about 100 people.
where can i pick up an application?
i can remember when my father, who was a wels pastor for 30-something years, did everything from type the bulletin stencil and print them on the mimeograph machine, to posting hymn numbers on the board, to make sure the furnace was running, to priming the pump so we could have water, to cutting the grass, to visiting members, etc... basically EVERYTHING.
how is it that one little church - out of so many other pressing needs- should get a bought and paid for admin assistant? what is wrong with the pastor doing some of that work? no wonder i can no longer support this synod when those with the power to do it, just flitter away hard-earned offerings that are given with the best of intentions. who is minding the store up there in milwaukee?
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GJ - Church and Change is minding the store. That is how Bruce Becker got the elderly Paul Kelm, 64, back to The Love Shack.
As a mission pastor I took care of all those things, weeded the lawn, washed windows, cleaned the church, buffed the floors, printed and mailed the newsletter. The members of one church were going to do the grunt work on the newsletter, until they found out how much work it was. So they said, "No one reads it anyway."
Mission pastors do all that and they should be saluted for it. But Church and Change pastors are too busy trolling the Internet for new sermon series to be bothered with ordinary work.
