WELS promotes estate-grabbing seminars, complete with a free lunch. But that lunch and the seminar are "made possible with a Thrivent grant."
Thrivent is doing the same for ELCA and the LCMS. I imagine the new program designed to save the Little Sect on the Prairie from extinction is also Thrivent-funded. Thrivent has paid for many different pan-Lutheran events.
The question lingers on our minds - How good is WELS in managing all that loot? The MilCraft estate was wrecked by WELS (DP Gurgle) so the widow sued in court and won. WELS became insolvent while Marvin Schwan's estate was showering tons of money on the sect (SP Gurgle).
Thrivent may be the main reason why Missouri and WELS do not face the music about their free-spending ways and paltry offerings. Thrivent will gladly hand out a grant--with strings attached--to find out why that is so.
One estate-grabber said WELS is involved with:
- Moving into the PU Tower - Pewaukee Universalist Tower.
- The appeal process about termination of calls.
- Promoting the NNIV.
- Dealing with predators in the churches. [GJ - Start by telling the truth instead of shielding criminals.]
