The following is from one report:
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Volkmann, Mrs Stephanie M St Paul Little Learner - Slinger WI 06/01/2012
Grebe, Mr Karl E King of Kings - Garden Grove CA 06/17/2012
Grebe, Mrs Sarah J King of Kings - Garden Grove CA 06/17/2012
Buske, Mrs Hannah L St Mark - Green Bay WI 06/30/2012
Fricke, Mr Lucas Mexico Kingdom Workers 06/30/2012
Gnewuch, Mrs Faith E St Matthew's - Oconomowoc WI 06/30/2012
Hein, Mrs Julie B Rocky Mountain LHS - Northglenn CO 06/30/2012
Hennig, Mrs Karen M St Croix LHS - West Saint Paul MN 06/30/2012
Hering, Mr Joel Mexico Kingdom Workers 06/30/2012
Hoffman, Miss Sara Christ the Lord - Clearwater FL 06/30/2012
Kamps, Mrs Rachael L Christ-St Peter - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Nettesheim, Miss Katherin St John - Mukwonago WI 06/30/2012
O'Connell, Mrs Samantha I St John - Lannon WI 06/30/2012
Pelzl, Rev Eric A WLC - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Petrie, Miss Khrista J Gloria Dei - Belmont CA 06/30/2012
Sigler, Mrs Jennifer M Green Valley - Henderson NV 06/30/2012
Trapp, Mr Peter C Atonement - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Vertz, Mrs Beth E St John - Baraboo WI 06/30/2012
Wege, Mrs Kay M Winnebago L.A. - Fond du Lac WI 06/30/2012
Wendland, Mr David T Minnesota Valley LHS - New Ulm MN 06/30/2012
Hoffman, Mrs Erica E Christ the King - Bremerton WA 07/01/2012
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Wittmershaus, Mr Kurt A MLC - New Ulm MN
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Mueller, Mr Raymond R 06/06/2012
Kalfahs, Mr Gus K 06/11/2012
Roth, Mrs Arlene M 06/13/2012
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Buege, Mr Joel A Illinois LHS - Crete IL 06/30/2012
Buege, Mr Joel A Illinois Luth Jr High - Crete IL 06/30/2012
Gurgel, Mrs Judith L St Lucas - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Jenkins, Mrs Ruth A Trinity - Waukesha WI 06/30/2012
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Boushek, Mrs Ashley R St Marcus - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Dais, Mr Andrew M St John - Jefferson WI 06/30/2012
Haag, Mr Andrew M Faith - Fond du Lac WI 06/30/2012
Maurer, Mrs Kathryn A Shepherd of the Va - Westminster CO 06/30/2012
Moldenhauer, Mrs Stephani Christ-St Peter - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Shoop, Mr Andrew D St Croix LHS - West Saint Paul MN 06/30/2012
Sulzle, Mrs Heather L Riverview - Appleton WI 06/30/2012
Watson, Mrs Kristin K Emanuel - New London WI 06/30/2012
Zacharyasz, Mrs Emily D St Peter - Appleton WI 06/30/2012
Zastrow, Mr Nathan G California LHS - Wildomar CA 06/30/2012
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Erlenbusch, Mrs Suzanne M Good Shepherd - Sioux Falls SD 06/30/2012
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Effective July 1, the HOPE Schools [Mark and Avoid Jeske, Inc] will become
independent Christian schools.
The following HOPE teachers will no longer be serving in WELS called positions:
Arndt-Eggers, Mrs Ashley Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Berger, Mr Paul M Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Clasen, Mrs Kristin R Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Freudenwald, Miss Kathryn Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Gerke, Miss Lindsey A Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Greenman, Mrs Anna J Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Hagedorn, Ms Erin E Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Harvey, Mr Adam A Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Heinen, Mrs Megan Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Hochtritt, Ms Elizabeth C Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Hoogervorst, Ms Laura HOPE Christian High - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Luehring, Mr Jamie C Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
McNair, Ms Ashley Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Otto, Mr Mark K HOPE Christian High - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Perkins, Mrs Jessica L Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Robinson, Mr Steven J Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Seeger, Mr Jeremy Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Stratton, Mrs Kimberly M Hope Christian Schoo - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
Tess, Mrs Jessica D HOPE Christian High - Milwaukee WI 06/30/2012
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| SP Schroeder was an early contributor to TELL, the WELS Church Growth periodical. He copped a plea about TELL, but who is rewarded, protected, and promoted today? Huebner, Olson, Witte, Kelm, Jeske, Glende, Ski, Parlow, etc. etc. |
***GJ - The fact is, WELS is reducing or dropping schools right and left. One observer said the Milwaukee pastors got their congregations into debt over school buildings and then dropped the schools.
The magic of Church and Change continues. The leaders (Roth, Jeske, Valleskey, Bivens, Wendland, Olson, Kelm, Huebner) have made their careers from xeroxing the insights of Fuller Seminary.
Their big move was dropping the name Lutheran after getting rid of Lutheran doctrine and worship. That is why "Christian Academies" have sprouted all over WELSdom, so no one notices the academies are just day-care businesses subsidized by the congregation.
News Story about HOPE Schools
Notice that when there is a challenge about false doctrine in WELS, people respond with "We will always be loyal to WELS, no matter what." When it is convenient for business purposes, the leaders will drop the name Lutheran to appeal to more people at once. Confessional Lutherans are told to speak the name softly in Jerusalem (Milwaukee), lest it be heard on the streets of Gath.
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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "WELS Shedding Teachers - Watch the Lists":
There is a strange irony about the departure of the HOPE Schools from the WELS. I am sure that there are many versions floating around about what happened. The official story is probably something about violation of fellowship principles. Yet, the HOPE model is exactly what the WELS leadership wants in their schools. As mentioned, the Lutheran name is dropped in favor of a generic title. The acceptance of government grants is the latest fad employed to disguise the real cost of operating a school. Free market economists would call this a pricing distortion. Also, making religious instruction optional allows the school to get these grants. The excuse for opening the school up to the community is that it becomes a mission arm of the church. How can this be if the religious instruction is not a mandatory part of the curriculum. This idea of accepting grants has now trickled down to the congregational LES level.
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GJ - This will open up the 501c3 for more Thrivent grants, more government aid of all type.
http://hopeschools.org/about-hope.php
I cannot find out who is on the board. HOPE is awfully secretive for such a public charity.
Pastor Kevin Hastings says that, long ago, Historic St. John Lutheran operated a school for the children in the neighborhood, with no outside help. Pastor Brenner contributed from his own salary to help pay the teachers. Brenner did not even accept aid to buy milk for the school.
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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "WELS Shedding Teachers - Watch the Lists":
After the concert at St. John's, Pastor Hastings gave some insight into the history of St.John's. He mentioned the fact that St. John's never took any subsidy whatsoever. He also touched on Pastor Brenner's generosity when it came to the teachers. In contrast to this, Pastor Hastings made reference to some neighboring WELS congregations who appear to be doing well by living from grants. Several years back, a synod minder justified the grants by pointing out how well an inner city congregation does when they accept them. Americans love their material wealth and success. So-called conservative Christians really squawk about government subsidies for abortion, but turn a blind eye when that dough comes in their direction to their parochial schools.
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California writes:
rlschultz's comment that "the acceptance of government grants is the latest fad employed to disguise the real cost of operating a school" lacks historical perspective and documented history. It is neither a fad nor recent. The fruits of the more than four decades of PPBS (Planned, Programmed,
Budgeted System) to create a changed WELS, including her schools, is finally coming to full fruition (ruination?). It is becoming impossible to dismiss it this point in history. Her schools have been "sacrificed on the altar of the almighty government dollar" over time, and now it is impossible to miss it.
The travesty could have been avoided in the late 1960's when a loophole was created, and it could have been stopped in the 1970's when the beginnings of acceptance of government grants in WELS schools was defended, but it wasn't. Resisters were silenced. There is no joy now for any of those resisters who are still alive who can say "we told you so". Sigh!
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GJ - California wrote earlier about the Milwaukee Nine who were kicked out of WELS for stating what WELS had previously taught, until WELS got greedy for government dollars.
Now it will be a matter of "live by taxes, die by taxes." When the revenue spigot is tightened up, the only solution is more tax money.
Does that mean Mark Jeske will start paying real estate taxes on his deluxe home in the burbs?
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rlschultz has
left a new comment on your post "WELS
Shedding Teachers - Watch the Lists":
California,
Thank you for the correction and clarification. Was it Lenski who wrote. "resist the beginnings"?
California,
Thank you for the correction and clarification. Was it Lenski who wrote. "resist the beginnings"?
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GJ - Yes, Lenski is the one. California knows the history and documents it. She has proven to me how early WELS started to go radical.
I suggested reading the Seventh Day Adventist history, to be posted above, which has many parallels to WELS, including kicking Kellogg out (the cereal killer) in typical WELS style.
