Stroh and Kelm - It Is All about the Money - Always Was

A foundation built of straw - Elton Stroh.

The following paragraph is from a WELS Kingdom Worker letter dated "February 2010" which was received today.

"Another historic development in 2010 will be the consideration of a new WKW program, The Center for Parish Renewal. If adopted, a call will be extended to Rev. Elton Stroh [Fuller alum, Church Growth] to serve as an administrator. WKW will be working with the WELS Conference of Presidents' Parish Assistance committee chaired by First Vice President Jim Huebner [Fuller alum, Church Growth] to assure complementary non-duplicating resources are available to congregations. Designated gifts to support this new program may be sent to WKW apart from mission project gifts."

WKW is going to grow by one staff member. Interesting when one considers the same letter also included the following:

"Due to the current economy and financial losses suffered by the Schwan Foundation, matching funds for national [WKW] projects will not be available in 2010. The generosity of the Foundation still provides for the operation of WKW. In 2009 WKW full-time staff salaries were reduced by 20%. Salaries are restored in 2010."

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GJ - The WELS convention eviscerated Perish Services. Stroh and Kelm [Fuller alum, Church Growth] became unemployed at the end of December. Doubtless they got a few months of severance pay. They already have their new jobs lined up.

Remember when someone heatedly denied that Kelm and Stroh hit up Kingdom Workers for money?

What do the three men named here have in common? - Fuller alumni, Church Growth.

I am sure the ELS/WELS boards of doctrine will jump on this like hobos on a hot-dog.

No, not to thwart it - to support it.

PS - I heard that WELS started to grow for a few weeks, while Kelm and Stroh were unemployed.

Standing Tall in 1918

This photo was taken in 1918.

It shows 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge, Iowa .

From the Anything Goes District of WELS

From an emailing sent by The CORE:

"Satan's Sex Ed"

April 11th - May 2nd

"30 Days to Live"

May 9th - May 30th.

"Bloodlines"

starts February 28th and runs through Lent. Martin Luther once said, "Blood alone moves the wheels of history." Join us as we look at the Bloodlines that flow into and out of the cross.


If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

-Elbert Hubbard

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GJ - The question is: How many items were copied from false teachers?

Paul Calvin Kelm was promoted for teaching FUEL, but that was dropped. Out of gas?

The CORE also promoted The Living Last Supper on their website, urging people to attend this event.

Someone wrote:

"Remarkable that WELS still has them on the roster. They're also recommending a Live Last Supper performance on The CORE's website. Brief research shows that it's put on by an ecumenical group pulling in performers from Catholic schools etc. During the performance there's an opportunity in the play to have the performers distribute Communion to those attending. Would be interesting to know if they will do so and if the Core will participate. Kinda wishing I lived closer to Appleton so I could witness some of this stuff first hand. Like watching a dead gold fish circle the bowl as a kid."

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GJ - That comment above is so far off. WELS would ban The CORE only if they recommended reading the Confessions, studying Luther, and sending kitteh art to Ichabod.

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "From the Anything Goes District of WELS":

Opportunity to receive Communion from 12 actors?
http://community.ucc.org/forums/Topic4193800-1922-1.aspx?cons_id=&ts=1266894184&signature=c01522c2359d8e06a046db82d9f6104c

http://choralmusic.com/livinglastsupper.htm

Opportunity to receive Communion with members of the Catholic church? This invitation is to the same presentation The Core will be attending.
http://www.holyspiritknights.org/School/Calendars/wf122309.pdf

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GJ - As long as the Roman Catholics serving communion are not women. Oh wait, I forgot. That is OK in WELS, commended in WELS. There is just a moratorium on women priests in WELS, until people are mature enough to accept it.

Reformed and Lutheran - No Concord There

Calvin denied the efficacy of the Word, too.

Joseph Schmidt has a great post on his blog.

Lutheran doctrine is not compatible with Reformed doctrine - the Reformed know this and the Lutherans do not.

The "conservative" Lutherans do not acknowledge that all their great insights are directly from the Reformed, except for those turncoats who have found greener pastures in Rome or Constantinople. Confidential to the ultra high-church Smells and Bells faction - Reformed sanctification is very much like Catholic/EO sanctification.

True - some recent insights are from such geniuses as Peter Drucker. He revolutionized business management in America. We would really be in trouble without Drucker's Management By Objective, eh?

We could be in a major recession.

Demotivator