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| Tim's big moment was featured as his Facebook profile picture, for a long time. That is not his wife - but Katy Perry - singer of porn songs for adolescents. |
John T. Pless - Welcome to ULC:
ULC flourished in the 1990's and that flourishing would continue and increase after my departure in 2000. ULC was organized as a congregation of the Synod. Given the disarray in campus ministry at the end of the short inter-Lutheran era, I was called not by the congregation but by the district. Prior to my departure, the congregation requested an opinion from the Synod's CCM as to whether the congregation or the district had the right to call its pastor. The CCM ruled that it was the congregation not the district that retained the right of the call. Within nine months of my leaving, ULC extended a call to a former student, Pastor David Kind who has served the congregation with distinction for the last decade.
ULC's location is crucial for its mission. I can't even begin to count the number of students who came to participate in the campus ministry because we were visible and accessible. I think, for example, of a Chinese post-doctoral student on his way to visit the Mormon Institute for Religion just down the street two blocks from the chapel. This student decided to check out ULC, not knowing the difference between Mormonism and Christianity. That drop in visit led to catechesis and Baptism. There are many other stories like that. One of my mentors in campus ministry, the sainted Don Deffner said "campus ministry is about location, location, location." He was right. The Gospel has produced fruit out of ULC's location on University Ave SE and it would be a shame to forfeit it on account of a flawed and ideologically biased decision of the district's current leadership.
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GJ - In case you were asleep, Minnesota did a Tim Glende and sold the prime location of the LCMS campus ministry, making the congregation homeless and instantly more distant from the university.
Yes, Tim did that at the U. of Illinois, letting the Eastern Orthodox have the prime location. He took a thriving congregation and paid-off building and turned it into a new debt-ridden building (new name) on the far edge of town. Then the Glendes high-tailed it out of town for a new misadventure.
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| Instead of a cornfield ministry with a coffee bar, WELS bought Tim a real bar - with WELS offering money, and they loaned him the money to remodel and fumigate it. Every walk by an old downtown bar? Ewwwww. |
bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Welcome to ULC - Importance of Location of Campus ...":
"Every walk by an old downtown bar? Ewwwww."
Yes, but if you visit the old stinky bars often enough, you don't smell it anymore. It's exactly like farmers who think that manure smells sweet, I kid you not. So it's no surprise to me that the WELS Extension Fund, with officials from Milwaukee, plucked down $400,000 for an old stinky bar that failed many times over, since to them, it smelled just fine.
