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Vicars in mission settings
Posted April 7th, 2009
The vicar year is a vital year of instruction for a seminary student. Students learn from hands-on ministry experiences as they are mentored by a supervising pastor. Because of the importance of this field experience, the seminary collaborates with the WELS Board for Home Missions (BHM) in subsidizing the cost of a vicar through the Vicars in Mission Settings Program.
For the past two years we have committed a substantial amount of money from our Scholarship Fund to allow mission congregations that perhaps could not afford a vicar to receive one. We pray that the Lord would allow us to continue to collaborate with the BHM in this important program of gospel outreach and pastoral training.
Generous donations to the seminary’s Scholarship Fund make this collaboration possible. If you would like more information on how you can support the Vicars in Mission Settings Program, please contact the office of mission advancement.
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GJ - The material above is posted from the WELS website. The vicar program has been abused by the Shrinkers two different ways.
4 comments:
Yes, I heard that WELS students hardly get any scholarships, and the few who do get them find it's just a drop in the bucket compared to their expenses. So I'm not surprised that scholarship money is being used to cover what would normally be a budgetary item. That's real motivational for students when they hear that, I bet.
They should give awards out for proper spelling, I think. But who needs motivation in the form of scholarships when you believe in UOJ. With UOJ, farmers can even produce bumper crops without rain.
Yes, instead of cutting staff or reducing their generous salaries, or raising more money, they just decide to use the scholarship fund to cover the cost of vicars each year! They knew that the seminarians continue their education solely at the sufferance of the faculty and WELS leaders, so if any student made a peep complaining about it, they could kiss their student career good-bye.
This provides one more example of duplicity while emphasizing the new transparency in WELS.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 (New International Version)
21Test everything. Hold on to the good. 22Avoid every kind of evil.
That explains why we get poor rich kids for teachers and pastors who cannot and will not empathize with the less fortunate. To them the people who do not come across with the dough are cheap tightwads.
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