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ELZ news from the Prez - February 2009

Congratulations
Vicar Kyle Madson and his wife Alicia were blessed with a baby girl, Adela Claire, on January 19.

Prayer Requests
We ask that you would please keep Rev. David Meyer and family in your prayers. David had successful vascular surgery in order to bypass an aneurism in his upper chest on January 16. We pray that the Lord enables him to have a full recovery.

We pray also for Pastor John Vogt, his wife Sandy and family. Both John’s father and mother were called home to heaven in the month of January; his father on January 13 and his mother on January 23.

Continue to ask the Lord’s blessing and healing upon Pastor Harvey Abrahamson’s wife, Ruth. Ruth now has returned home from Rochester, MN, following a surgery for removal of cancer.

We have learned recently that Pastor Dan Sabrowsky died during the month of January. Please keep his family in your prayers. During retirement, Pastor Sabrowsky had been living in Washington state.

March Colloquy
Rev. Joseph Burkhardt, who serves at Ascension Lutheran in St. Helens, Oregon, is requesting colloquy for reinstatement as a clergyman of the synod. Ascension Lutheran is requesting membership in the ELS. Tentatively a date of March 24, 2009, has been set aside for the colloquy. Any information concerning the colloquy should be sent to the Office of the President.

(The first part of this message was taken directly from the President's Newsletter. The following comments are made by Norman Teigen, the owner of this blog.) The Prez also includes a statement in his February Newsletter from WELS President Schroeder. The WELZ Prez announced the WELZ Conference of Presidents (how many Presidents are there in the WELZ?) is convening an ad hoc committee to address the issue of the "synod's faithfulness to the Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions" and some "new and different approaches and methods" of doing church work.

The story behind this is that there is a movement within the WELZ called 'Church and Change' which wants to take a new look at how church matters are handled. This has caused a stir within the WELZ and is so pervasive (apparently) that it has made the officialdom sit up and take notice. The movement must have something to it, otherwise the officialdom could and would ignore it.

The church has always struggled between orthodoxy and meeting the world. There is nothing new in any of this.