http://www.wdtimes.com/articles/2008/08/14/news/news3.txt - This link was already embedded in the John Bauer tag above. Too bad the critics did not click on it. I realize how much trouble that would be - left click, oh, the agony.
Dr. John E. Bauer will be formally installed as president and CEO of Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services Inc. on Saturday at the Schujahn Memorial Chapel of the Good Shepherd on Bethesda's Watertown campus.
The service of installation begins at 2 p.m. and will be followed by a reception in the chapel concourse. The public is invited to attend.
Bauer is succeeding Dr. David Geske, who recently retired after a nearly 30-year career with Bethesda and Good Shepherd Communities.
Participants in Saturday's service include the Rev. Earl Bleke, Bethesda's chief religious life officer, and the Rev. John Wille, president of the South Wisconsin District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. The special guest speaker for the service will be the Rev. Mark Jeske of the Time of Gath Ministries based in Milwaukee.
While new to his position, Bauer has a long association with Bethesda. He served on the company's board of directors for 10 years, five of those years as chairman of the board. During that time he helped plan the affiliation of Good Shepherd Communities with Bethesda, a move that nearly doubled the organization's size.
After leaving the board in 2006, Bauer worked for Bethesda as an integration manager, a position where he was responsible for coordinating the multiple details of the affiliation process and ensuring the adoption of best practice recommendations.
He also served for almost one year as the interim chief operations officer for Bethesda.
Bauer earned his doctorate in education administration and supervision from Marquette University and for 22 years he served as the chief academic officer for Wisconsin Lutheran College. He was also the executive director of the CHARiS Institute, an affiliate of the college devoted to
Bauer and his wife, Jacqueline, live in Watertown. They are the parents of three adult sons and have recently become grandparents.
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GJ - So much is missing from this PR news release. What is Jeske's current affiliation? What is John Bauer's?
Charis is the WLC office next to the broom closet where Church and Change was hatched.
Charis sponsored the Symposium where Kent Hunter, Waldo Werning, and Malphurs were invited to teach WELS even more about Church Growth.
Bauer played the martyr about the Symposium being canceled and the Chicaneries consoled him. Please read this link.
The less experience someone has as a pastor, the more he is considered an expert: Hunter, Werning, Kelm, Paul McCain, Larry Olson, etc.
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My comments stand from yesterday. Jeske is making way to jump ship to LCMS.
Hey Jerkson. I'm sure that you will be reporting that Jeske was not the special guest speaker...oh wait, that would mean you would have to do some actual research and tell the truth.
This was about a year ago, no?
The original post was from August, 2008. I saw no mention of Jeske in the post. Can you link to the post where Jeske is mentioned?
The Synodical Conference rises again! See what happens when you over sleep. In reguard to yesterdays post(September facebook discussion on Jeske LCMS),one month has passed and some are still waiting on a descision from the presidents. In light of todays post, the Lord has sent us his answer. Just like Luther we began with words on paper.(Ninety-Five Theses) What happened next were several confertations. Diets, Edicts, debates, and confessions. In other words, we have to get off our seats, off our blogs, and ride the caravan to Wisconsin.
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Could you give us the link to the original press release? I can't seem to find it on the Bethesda website.
I am sorry for the spellin errors from my earlier comment.
from WELS church lady
"Synodical Conference United Again!"
Wrong! Heretics united. The dregs of WELS and LCMS united.
You seem to think that the visible church in WELS is without error or sin - But we really do know better. In terms of this situation with Jeske serving as a guest speaker (a situation which did, in fact, pass well over a year ago), I happen to know for a fact that the Watertown-area WELS pastors immediately recognized this as a mistake and confronted Rev. Jeske privately in (Christian) love. I can't speak for certain about what happened after that, but I don't think anything ever came from it. Was it wrong? Yes. Was it taken care of? Yes.
I apologize, allow me to clarify my above post. What I meant to say was "you seem to think that the visible church is TO be without..."
Sorry about that, if it caused any confusion.
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