Monday, October 18, 2010

Stop Sniveling - Schools and Colleges Close


Church Growth is the opiate of the people.
Telling the truth wakes them up, crying.


Mobridge Prep (WELS) - Closed

Prairie du Chien (WELS) - Closed

The Original Moo U. (WELS) - Closed

Northwestern College (WELS) - Closed

Dana College (ELCA) - Closed

Waldorf College (ELCA) - Closed but online, for-profit.

Upsala College (ELCA) - Closed due to declining enrollment. Refused to relocate to donated land.

Michigan Lutheran Seminary (WELS) - Getting close.

Martin Luther College (WELS) - To be divided and closed.

LCMS schools have closed, too.

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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Stop Sniveling - Schools and Colleges Close":

Dr. Jackson's source is right, once you think about it. Why operate and subsidize a large teacher college when only a fraction of the graduates are called? Educating teachers and pastors could be outsourced to another college, and the WELS would only have to subsidize, say, a chapel and a few classrooms and teachers, not an entire campus. There are plenty of multi-denominational college and seminary campuses already, and each denomination subsidizes only their students special program and curriculum. ELCA's Southern Seminary has Lutheran, Baptist and Methodist tracks: http://www.ltss.edu

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GJ - Obama's CommieCare is going to brutalize budgets everywhere, even with a big election loss in November. Congress would have to meet and over-ride Obama to get rid of the law. Meanwhile, all kinds of taxes and costs are being thrown at every business and institution.

The threat is doubled for church organizations. First of all, the budgets are raised in the midst of a major recession that is stifling donations. Secondly, the ripple effect starts to hit all the families (more unemployment) and businesses providing income and donations.