Mequon Class Photo, Zehms and Oelhafen

 

Left-click to enlarge the Shrinkers.

Roger Zehms ended up at St. Marcus in Milwaukee - no surprise. His Grace stops by, from time to time, between tapings of Time of Generic Grace.

Wally Oelhafen swooned over CG in the Michigan District. His son gave the memorable sermon, "I Am So Glad Jesus Rode a Hog." No, that was not a novelty song. It was even posted on the website. Fortunately, I saved it on this blog. 

Wally O. and Fred Adrian both had a fit  when my paper (last chapter of Liberalism: Its Cause and Cure) was read at the pastoral conference. They went bezonkers, yelling, "Just because we studied at Fuller Seminary..."

Columbus was a real beehive of WELS corruption:

1. Wally Oelhafen was the DMB chairman and gushed over CG.
2. Fred Adrian took over as DMB chair and had a vicar go to state prison for an affair with a minor girl. He left the ministry but he is back. Talent like that is hard to find.
3. Roger Zehms, part of the Wayne Mueller gang, headed LPR, which was started to promote the CG Movement.
4. Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, was the supposed second banana of LPR, but he was allowed to act like the DP, bossing everyone around. He was openly anti-WELS, anti-Lutheran, and totally CG. Both LPR gurus were divorced.
5. John Chworsky, the mission staff meddler, was CG everywhere but in my presence. He told me he finally understood what I was writing in CN. Then he was shipped out of the country.
6. DP Mueller knew how to talk against CG (like Deputy Doug Engelbrecht and Glaeske) but promoted it right and left. Mueller worked hard to close NWC.
7. VP Kuske loved CG as much as Oelhafen, Stolzenburg, and Zehms combined. The boys were going to show everyone how to do it with Pilgrim Community Church. It closed faster than a saloon in Wheaton, Illinois.
8. Marc Schroeder (divorced and remarried) loved CG and eventually moved to Missouri, after having WELS pay for his entire mission start. Nice stewardship.
9. Roger Kovaciny supported CG and claimed to help start it in WELS. Really?
10. The big church in town, St. Paul in German Village, had never been WELS up to that point. Schumann, Nitz, Zehms, and Stolzenburg made a bad situation worse.

WELS Walking Together in the 1980s - The Blind Leading the Blind.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Mequon Class Photo, Zehms and Oelhafen":

Nitz was not in agreement with CG at St. Paul's, Columbus. He stayed to try to add balance to the ministrations of Schumann. When he couldn't take it any longer, his dad (Az-CA DP) got him a call to AZ which he took immediately.

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GJ - Nitz was a real lion-heart, like all the Nitz clan. He had a woman teaching men in the adult Bible study on Sundays. He complained that Church Growth was in such disrepute in Columbus that he could not even mention the word. He was not as far gone as the rest of them, but he was hardly a cure.