Mequon Class of 1987, CrossWalk, Depere, and More

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Church Growth stars in the class where I studied:

1. Professor Becker was already beatified at Mequon, but not at Bethany.
2. Professor Tiefel began his cautious promotion of CG.
3. Professor Wayne Mueller was ousted, according to Slick Brenner, for being Reformed (a sin in WELS?), moved up to Perish Services, and First VP. Apparently, only Shrinkers can be First Veep.
4. Professor Valleskey, Fuller alumnus, was teaching a special CG course in the summer, to the unbabtized, as well as during the school year.
5. Professor Johne became a safari pal of Kudu Don Patterson. World missions went CG from the start.
6. Randy Cutter took part in the Coral Gables fiasco, turned Pentecostal.
7. John Parlow was a founder, mover, shaker in Church and Change - goes to Drive Babtist worship conferences with Ski, Glende, Bishop Katy, and other WELS workers.
8. Bill Favorite is working at CrossWalk, Phoenix (Jeff Gunn), which is not WELS yet, but they are working on it. Favorite presents for Church and Change.
9. Rick Miller started CrossRoads in S. Lyons, Michigan--with the blessing of DP Robert Mueller and VP Kuske--WELS first parish to join the Evangelical Covenant sect.
10. Nathan Krause slept on his Triglotta every day in class, joined the ELS, and now has a CG parish.

Graduation was immediately followed by a week of brainwashing in Church Growth, led by Robert Hartmann (TELL), Norm Berg (Fuller), Wayne Mueller, etc. More brainwashing followed at the summer evangelism program run by Paul Calvin Kelm, Larry Olson, David Valleskey, etc.