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Sources tell me that an announcement was made in the WELS Synodical Council meeting on Saturday, Nov 3rd, that the synod received a letter of intent from someone to buy the N. Mayfair Rd. synodical office complex for $1.8 million. They were very excited, but noted that it wasn't a contract yet.
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| A real estate firm could not wait to sell their white elephant to WELS. |
GJ - Excited means they can move into their Pewaukee high-rise, since the financial whiz-kids of the Schroeder administration managed to become owners of two synodical headquarters buildings at once - in a down commercial real estate market.
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| WELS is a buyer of last resort. If no one wants a commercial property, WELS will buy it at a premium price. |
In other WELS news -
The Church Extension Fund gives out its own grants, designation by the Home Missions and District boards (which are totally controlled by Jeske's Church and Changers).
Moncks Corner in North Carolina got a $1 million grant because Boeing is moving a plant there.
Trapp's Madison student chapel spends $4,000 a year, giving away free coffee to attract students to the study lounge on the main floor. The chapel is above the lounge, so students are not scared away by religious trappings. Trapp has always been a Willow Creek loyalist and once had his congregation a member of the Willow Creek Association (as Parlow did).
In fact, the mission board sent pastors to Willow Creek and paid their way, so being a WC member was more of an asset in getting free loot from WELS for building and remodeling.
The CORE got its grant money from WELS because Church and Change controls the synod leaders. Golly - they ARE the synod leadership. The CORE will probably back very little of all the money received from WELS. My source did not say so, but I suspect the CORE donor laundered a gift through the Church Extension Fund to make it look more legitimate. If infallible WELS makes a decision, that decision cannot be questioned.
As one pea-brained WELS pastor told a family, "You have questioned the proposed hymnal. You have broken fellowship with WELS. You are no longer a member." That family was happy to leave and the pastor is still in WELS. He fits right in!
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| Free coffee, a crooning sax, WELS propaganda, CCM, Elton Stroy's expertise - How could the Latte Church flop? "When all else fails, try religion." |
