grumpy has left a new comment on your post "Fight Synodical Misinformation":
Alas, Dr. Jackson was incorrect in his assertion that Martin Luther College would be closing soon.
Also, just in from MLS, future freshman enrollment for 2011-2012 seem to be much higher than in recent years. Recently posted on the MLS web site (12/27/2010):
Between last school year and the current year MLS experienced considerable growth in numbers, by God's grace. If current application figures are any indication, that growth will continue next school as well. Our applications for next school year have now hit sixty.
No gift card for Dr. Jackson this year. Perhaps he will be more critical in filtering out misinformation in 2011 ?
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GJ - The source about Martin Luther College is Pastor Jenswold, now in Fox Valley. You will have to take it up with him.
Someone already posted that the contingency plans had been discussed at MLC.
Of course, I have no idea if your information is correct, Grumpy. You do not even sign your name.
This is a clearing house where people can post what they want, anonymously, with very little filtering.
Given the WELS propensity for lying and covering up felonies, they should not be too eager to press the nyah-nyah macro button. How many denominations have spouses murdered and they cannot even let their members know?
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I have noticed that some of the kids I knew in high school (most of whom I never considered interested in - or necessarily fit for - the Ministry) are going to/applying for admittance to MLC.
I suspect that the faculty of the high schools are encouraging any student with primitive (though not necessarily correct) knowledge of Scripture to attend MLC (i.e. if you've got better than a C in religion class, you're qualified). But, that is merely unsubstantiated conjecture.
However, I can assure you that a proper understanding of Lutheran theology is not a requirement for pushing the youth into the Ministry, as I was encouraged by numerous teachers on multiple occasions to attend MLC as a prime candidate for pastor tract; of course, this was when I was in my Reformed, never-heard-of-the-BoC phase.
Grumpy, Lately 12 students were eligible for calls, and only 2 received calls. You can see why someone might get the idea that the WELS doesn't need a full-blown college campus to produce enough teachers. A teacher track at WLC could handle these numbers and be much more cost-effective:
December 17, 2 010
MLC Update
http://www.mlc-wels.edu/home/administration/offices/ma/wu/wu20101217/
excerpt: A total of 12 students were eligible for assignment and were considered by the Assignment Committee. Five were December graduates, and seven were previous graduates. Two received assignments into the teaching ministry. For updated information visit our website and follow the link
labeled “assignment lists.”
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