Subject: Fwd: Registration Reminder - 2009 Church & Change Conference: Regaining Momentum
Follow the link C&C program.color.pdf to download the brochure with all the descriptions.
From: Michelle Eggert
Subject: Registration Reminder - 2009 Church & Change Conference: Regaining Momentum
Time is passing quickly. There are only 26 days to register for The 2009 Church & Change Conference at the "early bird" rate. The Conference features an outstanding line-up of speakers and ministry topics. Our main presenters will be Bruce Becker, Director of Operations for Time of Grace and Rev. Elton Stroh, director of our WELS Parish Assistance program. Bruce Becker will be examining characteristics that are hurting our congregations as well as those that are helping congregations in their efforts to bring the Gospel to more people. Rev. Stroh will discuss the what certain churches did to turnaround from being in decline to becoming more active.
You will be challenged, inspired and encouraged as a Christian and as a leader of Christians. When several hundred creative WELS leaders gather around God's Word and share their ideas, that's what we expect to happen!
Join us - Thursday, November 5 through Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel and Convention Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The cost for the conference is $200.00 per person ($280 for registrations received on or after September 16, 2009). A special "3+1 offer" will be available to congregations sending four or more participants. All meals are included in the conference price, but participants will need to provide their own lodging.
Special conference hotel rates of $99 single or $109 double occupancy per night are available at the Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel & Convention Center through October 13, 2009. Please contact the hotel directly to make your hotel reservations at (866) 625-3104 and mention you are attending the Church & Change Conference.
Reservations can also be made online at: http://www.wyndham.com/groupeventsnew/mkeap_churchchange09/main.wnt.
All registrations will take place online at http://www.regonline.com/churchandchange2009. For a full description of each presenter/topic, click C&C program.bw.pdf for efficient black/white printing or C&C program.color.pdf for full color viewing printing. Check out our Website www.churchandchange.org for further details. This conference is shaping up to be the best ever!
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Try Not To Yawn as Bruce Becker Stages His Come-Ba...":
After that wonderful report given by Pres. Schroeder at the convention declaring the confessional direction of the WELS, are WELS monies still going to fund a those few who are trying to 'Regain the Momentum'? That would be a direct contradiction of exactly what the President was talking about. I'd be real sad to know that Synod would still be spending badly needed dollars on this conference.
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GJ - WELS funded the start of C and C, and Perish Services overlapped C and C, with staffers being paid in effect to promote the Fuller agenda. I doubt whether any new WELS synodical money is going to C and C directly. Look over the brochures--past and present--and you will see the main leaders.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Try Not To Yawn as Bruce Becker Stages His Come-Ba...":
Bruce Becker is the poster boy for a lost generation of WELS pastors.
