Working on it.
We were blessed to have 101 teens and chaperones (sic) at the AZ/CA Youth Rally in Phoenix.
We gathered at the Courtyard by Marriott - North Phoenix under the theme "Get out of the heat and into the shade" using Isaiah 25:1 & 4 as our scripture verse.
Our guest speaker was Professor Rhoda Wolle from WLC in Milwaukee. She shared her insight on the teen's brain, social interaction and how it all relates to God' (sic) Word.
We spent a day at the Wet N' Wild water park and enjoyed mixer games and devotions.
We had groups from New Mexico, Nevada, California and Arizona that shared their time and faith with others! [Faith? How sad that so many, from so many places see the church as a giant social club.]
On behalf of your CYD representatives, we'd like to say thank you to all the churches who came to the rally with their teens. Make sure you thank your chaperones (sic) for giving up their time to be here with the kids and also thank the teens for being with us!
May God continue to bless all the efforts of our ministry-adults and children!
In His Service-
Deacon Mike Mundstock
Rev. Nate Kassulke
Rev. Matt Pfeifer
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GJ - This is where progressive youth ministry ends up, as proven time and again in each mainline denomination.
WELS is mainline, just a few months behind the others.
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Dapper Don has left a new comment on your post "WELS Youth Mystery":
Greg,
for the sake of your readers, here's the preliminary schedule from the youth rally you mention.
Preliminary Youth Rally Schedule
Tuesday, July 6th
Noon Registration (no lunch provided)
2 pm Rally Begins
2:30 pm Keynote
6 pm Dinner
7 pm Devotion and Entertainment
Wednesday, July 7th
8 am Breakfast
9 am Morning Devotion
9:30 am Keynote
11:30 am Wet n’ Wild (lunch at the water park)
6 pm Dinner
7 pm Devotion and Entertainment
Thursday, July 8th
8 am Breakfast
9 am Morning Devotion
9:30 am Keynote
11 am Closing Devotion
Looks to me like four hours of the keynote speaker, adn (sic) 2 1/2 hours of devotions over a three day time span. What is so weird, it was posted. I know you don't go out of your way to misrepresent things, and am at loss how you could have failed to research this one. Psalm 15.3c
Hope this helps clarify the issue.
Don Pieper
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GJ - Psalm 15:3 is a bit savage, Dapper Don, but a typical WELS response to a verbatim quotation from the source.
Like the gay Martin Luther College video, this matter came from a WELS member. The WELS members do not feel safe in questioning anything because of the smooth, practiced assaults delivered to the truth.
