Mark Jeske, heavily promoted by WELS, will not admit to being WELS on TV. The Chicanery leadership is drawn from Jeske, Parlow, Patterson, and overpaid staff at WELS headquarters (aka The Love Shack). Mequon seminary Professor Richard Gurgle and Professor-in-Exile John Lawrenz are also Chicanery partisans.
ELS Pastor Nathan Krause works with this bunch, and he has a vicar being trained in Enthusiasm.
Bruce Becker hired Paul Calvin Kelm covertly, then left for Jeske's Time of Grace.
Elton Stroh will turn your church around, so a Lutheran congregation can start acting like a Babtist one. Stetzer would be pleased. Aderman could use some of this, since it hasn't worked for him in 20 years.
Ron Roth was the first editor of TELL, the Church Growth magazine for WELS. He headed stewardship for WELS when it went broke. He can do the same for your congregation, since he now works with Jeff Davis as a professional money-raiser for WELS/LCMS.
Jeff Davis will present his insights on money-raising in the congregation. He gets a commission from the results, not a stated fee.
Randy Hunter has a vicar this year, which means his District Pussycat approves his methods, such as having a cross in a coffee cup as the logo for Latte Lutheran Church.
Aderman retired but went back to frog-kissing for Church Growth. He will probably be greeted as a hero at this conference.
Patterson Network member Geiger is a featured speaker again. But there is no Church Growth in WELS. And it there were, Patterson--who also led a session and posts on their listserve--would not be part of it.
Brian Arthur Lampe is a board member of this sect and a youth leader at St. Marcus.
John Parlow, St. Mark, Depere, WI, is a member of the Willow Creek Association ministerium. His church belongs to the WCA. Here he is posing for Ski at Drive 08, a Babtist worship conference run by Andy Stanley. Ski, Katie, Glende, and around 7 WELS pastors attended Drive 09 together. Parlow was one of the founding members of Church and Chicanery.
I understand from Steve Witte's Gordon Conwell paper that John Johnson was also a founding member of Church and Chicanery. Johnson is on the staff at St. Mark Willow Creek Lutheran.***
GJ - Corrections, additions, and fervent denials are welcome.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Mug Shots for the WELS/ELS Chicanery Convention in...":
I didn't see Paul Kelm's name on the list. He can turn your church around in a few short weeks. It goes from a Pastor who is taught and trained for eight years passing his torch on to the congregation and everybody becomes a minister. Now the pastor is freed up to do nothing and the responsibility for everything including missions and ministry can fall on the laity's shoulders. That way if things go haywire, it's your fault. Kelm can accomplish all this for around $10,000.
