Jeske featured at LCMS District Meeting
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Siebert Lutheran Foundation has provided critical dollars towards capital campaigns to schools like St. Marcus School in Milwaukee that are educating some of the city's most impoverished children.
St. Marcus School, a college prep school serving predominantly low-income African American students, is dedicated to instilling students with wisdom, a sense of dedication and self-discipline, a positive attitude and Christian faith. Over 70 percent of students live in homes with single parent women heading their households and qualify for the federal school lunch subsidy program.
Currently, the school is undergoing a capital campaign seeking $12 million for campus expansion and improvements to the school as well as programs that will enhance their education and outreach services. These additions will allow enrollment to grow to 600 students in a state of the art educational facility.
"The Siebert Foundation values education in a Christian environment and St. Marcus's mission," said Siebert Lutheran Foundation President Ron Jones. "We see this as a privilege to be part of the future of their expansion and for additional students to attend this exceptional school."
In fall 2008, the Foundation made a three-year historic operational and programmatic commitment to support the school: $1,000,000 for the building additions and $105,000 for the College Prep Center (CPC). The CPC provides students with behavioral and academic enrichment from 4:00pm until 8:30pm where individualized small group homework support, a nutritious dinner and light recreation are provided under direct supervision of an educator.
The vast majority of St. Marcus's K4 through 8th grade students participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program which allows low-income students to attend private schools.
"Milwaukee is in desperate need of high quality educational options for its children," says Henry Tyson, superintendent for St. Marcus School in Milwaukee. "St. Marcus will succeed in its effort to provide a top quality education for 300 more children because of the bold support of the Siebert Foundation. Before that grant was awarded we thought we could do it. Now we know we can. The impact will be enormous."
In providing funding when times are tight for gifting and donations, the Siebert Foundation's contributions are a major achievement and clear message that they are committed to putting Milwaukee's children on the path to college.
"The Siebert Lutheran Foundation has been a partner with St. Marcus School for over fifteen years," explains Siebert Lutheran Foundation President Ron Jones. "We are grateful for the life changing education opportunity that St. Marcus avails to low-income students."
6 comments:
Jeske proves it again. There is nothing in this world as needy as a religious institution.
Acorn is the place for Jeske.
Jeske is in fellowship with the LCMS -
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"ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities.
Since 1970, ACORN has grown to more than 350,000 member families, organized in 850 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the U.S. and in cities in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Canada.
ACORN's accomplishments include successful campaigns for better housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, job conditions, and more.
ACORN members participate in local meetings and actively work on campaigns, elect leadership from the neighborhood level up, and pay the organization's core expenses through membership dues and grassroots fundraisers.
ACORN has constantly challenged the traditional notions of what a community organization is, and its family of organizations includes two radio stations, a voter registration network, a housing corporation, and several publications."
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2703
Clearly Jeske has outgrown the old parochial religion of WELS. His place is with where his heart belongs, namely, the following:
• Supporting the NWO, the new world government from God
• Government Politics
• Social Welfare for the disadvantaged
• Money, and lots of it, without accounting requirements
No matter how wonderful these interests of his are, they detract from and undermine WELS by being secularly focused.
Any fool can see that we need change. So could Obama. The challenge comes in recognizing and deciding what change will work out the best in both the short term and long term. Knowing human nature the change will be a simple power grab, as if the failed centralized planning and control in WELS has not already demonstrated that the leaders lack the intelligence abd wisdom to use it wisely.
Since Jeske and Obama have so much in common, let them hold hands and go forth to change America. They are clearly made for each other.
The article reads:
"...St. Marcus School, a college prep school serving predominantly low-income African American students..."
The writer conveniently forgot to add: "and healthy measure of suburban children whose well-to-do parents long to provide them with an 'authentic' and 'diverse' education, for reasons which stem from the media-driven debasing of white middle-class conservatives. Tim Niedfeldt is one such parent, doing his part to atone for white-guilt"
That'd be a more realistic picture of the St. Marcus that I was (unfortunately) involved with.
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