Hymns to Hum
Paul Calvin Kelm had a great idea about introducing Contemporary Charismatic Music to WELS congregations.
"Wally has a great voice and Ron has good legs. We'll get another guy from the drama department at DMLC. With bouffant wigs and the right make-up, we can sneak CCM into WELS."
Ron warmed to the idea, faster than Paul expected. "We will make a record and use fake names. No one will know!"
No one told Ron that vinyl was out, so the Love Shack was stuck with a zillion albums like the one above.
"It doesn't matter. It was an insurance grant. If we didn't spend the money, the evil Missouri Synod would have spent it."
WELS issued a statement later, saying, "No records were made. If any records were made, they were in accordance with the Scriptures and the Confessions. Anyone who denies this is violating the Eighth Commandment and Matthew 18."
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GJ - Seriously folks. I have confirmed that Kelm and Stroh went fishing for funds at WELS Kingdom Workers.
"There was probably no single program more polarizing among the WELS ministerium than that of Perish Assistance."
Moreover, Kingdom Workers would not have gone around asking to revive something just shut down by the synod convention.
This is another pathetic attempt to pull a stunt, cover it up, and call the truth-tellers liars.
In other words, Church and Changer Modus Operandi.
8 comments:
Amen to that! I cannot remember one single program that came from Parish Services that was the result of a request from the "trenches". It was, "Here is the new program. You will like it. Remember, we know better than you".
I won't miss them one bit!
"Wally has a great voice and Ron has good legs. We'll get another guy from the drama department at DMLC. With bouffant wigs and the right make-up, we can sneak CCM into WELS."
DMLC has a history of perversion?!
So what your saying is Kingdom Workers turned them down cold, right?
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GJ - Seriously folks. I have confirmed that Kelm and Stroh went fishing for funds at WELS Kingdom Workers.
That makes me wonder how many more things they did that we will never hear about.
No wonder the graduates act so daft and their humor is so sick.
Mistbiene
This sounds like a shell game to me. Parish Services has been shuttled under the umbrella of the COP and as far as I can tell only one full time position has been eliminated. While expensive and CG-oriented, parish consultants were invited by, not shoved at, congregations. But Parish Services, although reinvented, is alive and well. Check out President Schroeder's comments from the Jan. 18th "Together" WELS e-letter:
"The Conference of Presidents met last week and discussed a wide range of issues. Its key decisions impact the new Congregational and Ministry Support Group (CMSG), reconfigured from the former area of ministry known as Parish Services and now refocused on supporting congregations by helping to better equip called workers.
"The COP decided to issue calls in February for two positions: a permanent director of Lutheran Schools...and a director of Youth Discipleship. The COP also tentatively decided to issue a call in April for the director of Congregational Planning and Assessment, the entity that will succeed the Parish Assistance program which offers individualized consulting services to congregations.
"The COP appointed a committee to recommend how congregational needs will be met when the Parish Assistance program comes to an end in June...The committee will look at all options for serving congregations, including the establishment of a new commission with newly defined responsibilities. The committee will begin meeting in early February and will bring recommendations to the COP in April."
The ominous potential repercussions for congregations could be drawn from comments made by WELS Director of Communications Joel Hochmuth in the October, 2009 WELS Connection Video. Hochmuth bemoaned the number of parishes that said, 'hey, we can do our own thing,' presumably without Synod's input. I will paraphrase Ronald Reagan:
"The nine scariest words in the English language are, 'I'm from the (Synod), and I'm here to help'."
Jim Becker WELS
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