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| Andy Stanley trained Ski and Glende, maybe Glende's old church should try multi-culturalism. |
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| Lenski suggests that sugar-coating the Gospel might not be a good idea. |
Tim Glende once served Star of Bethlehem in Savoy, Illinois? How is that church doing?
Bueller, Bueller, anyone?
PS - An email informed me that the congregation is out of money, cannot pay for anything, not even a supply pastor. Apparently Tim tried his Happy Clappy Tranformational Entertainment Worship here.
Why not send some of that loot wasted on The CORE to Star of Bethlehem?
That would be real, relational, and relevant.
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Tell Us about Star of Bethlehem, Savoy, Illinois -...":
The glory of the (W)ELS. Sad to say but at least Glende left them a few hundred dollars, DP Buchholz left his old congregation with $1.3Million dollars of debt.
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GJ - An email states there is not a single Book of Concord in the Star of Bethlehem building. Tim doubtless took all the copies along with him, because he knows how important the Confessions are. He is quite an expert, according to his anonymouse blog.
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bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Tell Us about Star of Bethlehem, Savoy, Illinois -...":
Congregation Meeting on May 20th After Service
http://www.starofbethlehem-savoy.org/
A very important congregation meeting will take place following the service on Sunday, May 20th. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this meeting to help make decisions about the future of Star of Bethlehem.
May 1, 2012
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solafide (http://solafide.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Tell Us about Star of Bethlehem, Savoy, Illinois -...":
From that, it looks like they are struggling, which is too bad. They are in one of the larger metropolitan areas in Illinois and have a huge Big 10 school (the largest school in the state) on their back doorstep.
After doing a quick church, the 2 closest churches are St. Mark's in Normal, IL (where they get their vacancy pastor) and Terre Haute, IN (which is also a vacancy and has been for quite some time).
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bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Tell Us about Star of Bethlehem, Savoy, Illinois -...":
The vacancy pastor for Glende's old church (he was there last in 2006) has a church website that doesn't mention the WELS at all, except there is an old bulletin from 2009 that mentions WELS in a blurb about closed communion. That bulletin can't be accessed through the site navigation and it looks like they forgot to delete it. So basically the WELS is only mentioned at St. Mark's when it has to "take one for the team"! The vacancy pastor is Pastor Paul Waldschmidt at St. Marks, Normal, IL:
No WELS mention:
Google: wels site:stmarknormal.com
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=wels+site:stmarknormal.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Star of Bethlehem in Champaign does mention the WELS prominently:
wels site:starofbethlehem-savoy.org
related post:
Update on Tim Glende's Church Growth Efforts in Savoy, Illinois:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/05/update-on-tim-glendes-church-growth.html?showComment=1337631067976#comment-c5080047131610662596
