The Big Picture - with CORE

Another innovation: Long-time friend--since MLS--Tim Glende issued Ski the call. Since when do individuals issue calls?


APPLETON — There will be a new focus for the former Big Picture Theater of Adventure and Discovery.

A one-year lease was signed Feb. 3 to turn the large format theater, which has been closed for more than two years, into The Core, an outreach ministry of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Freedom.

The daughter congregation will target the 18-to-35-year-old demographic, said the Rev. Jim "Ski" Skorzewski, who will pastor the 300-seat (plus handicapped seating) church.

The Core's vision is to become a city within the city, Skorzewski said.

"In the same way we've been transformed by Jesus, then our responsibility and opportunity is to share that Gospel message that transforms lives," he said. "We're going to start very small like a township and our goal is to grow into a city that affects the city for our Savior Jesus."

More than 100 people turned out for an impromptu service and Bible study Sunday.

The $5.1 million Big Picture opened in March 2005. It closed in October 2006 and has remained vacant since.

In August, Skorzewski, formerly with St. Marcus Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, received a call from St. Peter's pastor, the Rev. Tim Glende, to start the new ministry. Skorzewski and a friend had began working on a new model for starting a church a year ago targeting two areas in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod: Oconomowoc and Appleton.

"A year later I got a call from both places the same night four minutes apart to do almost the exact same thing," Skorzewski said. "My philosophy has been if we're going to go after and target the 18-to-35-year-old age group you need to be downtown."

Once interior modifications are made to the theater — such as shrinking the size of the 80-by-60-foot screen using curtains and installing a performance platform, The Core hopes to launch its first service April 19. A Web site launching party is planned Feb. 22.

"It's an exciting time for our congregation and also for this daughter congregation," Glende said.

"Our tag line is real, relevant, relational," said Skorzewski. "We're going to be a pretty non-churchy church. It will be the more reverent irreverent service you've been to. … We're going to do something I haven't seen done in the Valley, so to speak. …So often churches become 'I have to,' not 'I get to.'"

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GJ - Would CORE be a clone of what Ski and Parlow drooled over in Atlanta - the Emergent Church, multi-screen, Rock and Roll Babtist Northpoint Community (sic) Church?

Read your publishing house's books, Ski and Glende. Deutschlander calls this kind of mission "whoopee worship."

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Anonymous Callers

"Are you living at this address....?"

GJ - "What does this concern?"

"A personal business matter. Are you Greg Jackson and living at this address?"

GJ - "What personal business matter?"

"I just told you."

GJ - "What is your mother's maiden name?"

"It's... Answer my question."

GJ - "What are the last four numbers of your social?"

(Increasingly frustrated.) "If you can't answer a simple question."

GJ - "What is your favorite foood?"

(Muffled outrage.) "That has nothing to do with..."

GJ - "What grade school did you graduate from?"

"Just tell me if you are living at that address."

GJ - "I can't answer personal questions from anonymous callers."

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Tired of getting those expired car warrantee phone calls, I have tried to extend my warrantee on:

1. A Stutz Bearcat.
2. A Dusenberg.
3. An Edsel.
4. A Model T.

I also wanted to refer them to friend, if they covered stolen cars.

One caller from India began laughing.

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Illinois Senator Burris has his own tomb ready, with all his resume material carved in stone, including his year as a foreign exchange student.

He lied about promising ex-governor Blago money in return for the appointment to the Senate, so he may not be able to add that line to the tomb.

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Anonymouse has left a new comment on your post "What Would Luther Buy?NPH Sale Only Through Saturd...":

Well, I suppose that commenter has a point in that you get up day after day not taking people's words and actions in the kindest possible way, but rather you slander against others telling lies or truths for some sick pleasure that you assure yourself at the end of the day is right and just and that God will pat you on the back for it. (sic: run-on sentence) But do as you please, you will answer to God for it on the last day.

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GJ - The post above reminds me of an email from the daughter of a WELS Church Growth guru. After calling me every name in the book, she added, "You are unloving and violate the Eighth Commandment." But at least she identified herself and signed her email.