Below are some rumors and ideas you will hear on the WELS grapevine:
- Sell the campus of The Sausage Factory. That is very unlikely since real estate development should be D.O.A. for several years. However, Rev. Robert Fleischmann would be a good candidate to manage the sale.
- Sell the Twin Towers - The Love Shack and its clone - and move to Northwestern Publishing House headquarters.
- Make the First Veep position non-salaried.
- Cut the Second VP position. All that Fuller training down the drain?
- No shock - close Michigan Lutheran Seminary in another year or two. Population trends are moving against synod schools, especially since Mueller-Gurgel jacked up the tuition and managed to lose a whole cohort of students.
- Close missions and eliminate positions in various places. That is most likely.
I believe printed periodicals will be scarcer than hen's teeth soon, following the trend of national magazines. FIC might as well be a PDF.
I thought Perish Services was on the chopping block. That would be a severe loss for Fuller, Willow Creek, and Trinity in Deerfield. They would have to rely on Missouri and ELCA for their Lutheran tuition income.
