Wisconsin Lutheran College Shows Off the WELS Agenda - To Reward and Promote Church and Changers Like Jeff Gunn.Ask DP Jon Buchholz about His Four-Year Study of Gunn

Wisconsin Lutheran College:

2012 Leadership Conference Agenda

Church and Change Conference Agenda

Friday, June 8 (morning)

Opening Worship

Plenary Session Presentations: "Leadership Roles and Relationships in the Church"

• Pastoral Leadership, a biblical and practical overview
  Dr. Allen Sorum of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary
• Lay Leadership, a biblical and practical overview
  Mr. Mark Massman, South Atlantic District representative to the WELS Synodical Council
• Issues of Tension and Opportunity, led by a panel of WELS leaders
  Lay Leaders Matt Trotter, Dave Schoeneck, and Kris Metzger, with Pastor David Kehl

Friday, June 8 (afternoon)

Seminar Sessions: "Leadership Skills for a 21st Century Church" (choose three)

• Defining Current Reality so that People Get It
  Pastor Elton Stroh of Crossroads Consulting
• Establishing a Vision for the Future, with Buy-In
  Pastor Jeff Gunn of Cross Walk Church in Phoenix
• Strategic Planning: Getting from Here to There
  Mr. Mark Wrightsman, President and CEO of PaR Systems in the Twin Cities
• Recruiting and Mentoring Volunteers
  Mr. Bill Meier, Director of WELS Kingdom Workers
• Team Building
  Mr. Rick Loewen, Director of Cross Train Ministries
• Dealing with Disagreement
  Pastor Charles Degner, Minnesota District President
• Assessment and Accountability
  Pastor Mark Henrich and Mr. Al Greschner of Atonement Lutheran Church in Milwaukee

Parlow, Jeske, Kelm, Patterson -
WELS doctrinal discipline at work:
reward the heretics.

Friday, June 8 (evening)

Networking fellowship, sharing common problems and successes, according to the size or situation of congregation

Saturday, June 9 (morning)

Opening Worship

Plenary Session Presentation: "Jesus' Mission in my Situation," introducing the importance of implementing leadership principles in a congregation's specific ministry context.
Pastor Jon Hein of Beautiful Savior Lutheran in Summerville, SC and chairman. of the WELS Commission on Congregational Counseling

Workshop Sessions: "Processing Principles – How Leaders Address Areas of Ministry" (choose two)

• Community Outreach
  Pastor Matt Vogt of Water of Life Lutheran Church in Las Vegas
• Children's Ministry that Connects
  Mrs. Cindi Holmen, WELS Coordinator for Early Childhood Ministry
• Leading the Lutheran School through a Time of Change
  Mr. Phil Leyrer, Principal of Siloah Lutheran School in Milwaukee
• Connecting Adults through Small Groups
  Bob and Karen Zastrow of Grace Lutheran Church in Milwaukee
• Ministries of Compassion for Hurting People
  Pastor Paul Kelm of Wisconsin Lutheran College
• A Fresh Look at Financial Support
  Pastor Ken Fisher, Director of Mission Advancement at Wisconsin Lutheran High School
• Leading Worship for the People You Want to Serve
  Pastor Aaron Christie of Trinity Lutheran in Waukesha, WI and member of the WELS Commission on Worship

Wrap-Up Open Forum (Quo Vadis) and Closing Devotion

Kelm uses the self-contradiction so popular among WELS deceivers.
Someone told me he was retiring, but I do not find that on the call report.

'via Blog this'

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Someone asked: How long will this "retirement" last...a retirement upward to an even more well-funded position, a consultancy perhaps?

09/24/12             WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD              8:17 am 

                     P A S T O R   C A L L   R E P O R T 

                       09/18/2012  through  09/24/2012 

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    Ziemer, Rev Carl W         Commission on Specia - Milwaukee WI  11/30/2012 

    Kelm, Dr Paul E             WLC - Milwaukee WI                   12/31/2012 

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GJ - And yet - that call report does not show at this point in time, and it is the 25th. Did the retirement only last six hours? Does someone have the report before the rest of the public?

Someone gave me a link to another call report which parallels the one posted on WELS.net. Some of the entries were the same. Some were different. Mystery solved  - except why have two different but similar lists?

Synod Officials Are Bullies Too. This Is How To Stop Them.Town turns tables on school prank | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com

Whitney Kropp.
Shame the bullies in your synod by supporting their targets.
The SynConference is the last bastion for Stalinism and show trials.

Town turns tables on school prank | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com:

West Branch, Mich. — 

High school student Whitney Kropp was shocked earlier this month when she was named to the homecoming court.


Her happy surprise turned to humiliation when she learned the reason. The students thought it would be funny if the popularity contest was won by someone who was unpopular.


Kids pointed at her in the hallways and laughed. The boy who was picked with her withdrew.


Students told her that, in case she was wondering why the boy had dropped out, he was uncomfortable being linked with her.


"I thought I wasn't worthy," said Kropp, 16. "I was this big old joke."


Her embarrassment was complete, but it didn't last long.


This tiny farm town an hour north of Saginaw quickly rallied around her.


For the homecoming dance Saturday, businesses will buy her dinner, take her photo, fix her hair and nails, and dress her in a gown, shoes and a tiara.


For the homecoming game Friday, residents will pack the football stadium so they can cheer when she is introduced at halftime.


They will be wearing her favorite color (orange) and T-shirts with messages of support. A 68-year-old grandmother offered to be her escort.


"I am in awe, overwhelmed at the amount of support," said Jamie Kline, 35, who began a Facebook support page. "I never expected it to spread as far as it has."


For Kropp, a sophomore at Ogemaw Heights High, it's been a remarkable transformation.


Before the homecoming vote, she was either ignored or scorned by classmates.


Now, when she isn't fielding yet another free offer from a business, she's being lauded by hundreds of strangers on the support page.


Cast in an unlikely role, she has embraced it. She vowed to continue representing the sophomore class, even if she has to do it alone.


It's like "Carrie" with a happy ending.

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120924/METRO/209240341#ixzz27UPd2f6x

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Luther Extols Faith While Removing Romans 4 from the UOJ Arsenal of False Claims

Here we must have Christ to bless us, and save us, as Abraham had Him for his blesser and Saviour. How? Not by works, but by faith. Therefore he addeth with great vehemency: “they which are of faith, are blessed with faithful Abraham.” A man, believing in Christ, is altogether a divine person, the child of God, the inheritor of the world, a conqueror of sin, death, the world, and the devil;  therefore he cannot be praised or magnified enough.Let us not suffer this faithful Abraham to lie hid in his grave, as he is hid from the Jews (who said: “Abraham is dead”), but let us highly extol and magnify him, and fill both heaven and earth with his name. So every Christian through his faith, filleth heaven and earth so that, besides it, he ought to behold nothing.

Martin Luther, Kregel, Galatians 3:8, p. 142.

KJV Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached
before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of
faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

KJV John 8:52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. 53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 54 Jesus
answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: 55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day:
and he saw it, and was glad. 57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Luther Takes Romans 4:25 from the UOJ Enthusiasts. Did Walther Really Study Luther?.WELS DPs Obviously Despise Luther

And Paul here doth not here reason what we ought to do, but by what means we are made righteous. In this matter we must set nothing before our eyes, but Jesus Christ dying for our sins, and rising again for our righteousness: and Him must we apprehend by faith, as a gift, not as an example. Like as the Jews, which were saved, follow the believing Abraham, so we also, if we will be delivered from our sins and be saved, must take hold of the justifying and saving Christ, whom Abraham himself also, by faith, did apprehend, and through Him was blessed.

Martin Luther, Kregel, Galatians 3:8, p. 141.



Romans 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;  25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.  5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:  2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

UOJ Advocates Like Jay Webber, Rolf Preus, Paul McCain, David Valleskey, and Jon Buchholz Should Dwell on This Passage

Wherefore that place in Genesis, “In thee shall all nations be blessed,” speaketh not of the blessing of the mouth, but of such blessing as belongeth to the imputation of righteousness, which is available before God, and redeemeth from the curse of sin, and from all those evils which do accompany sin. Now, this blessing is received only by faith: for the text says plainly: “Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for
righeousness.”

Martin Luther, Kregel, Galatians 3:8, p. 141.

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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "UOJ Advocates Like Jay Webber, Rolf Preus, Paul Mc...":

Ichabod -

How much explaining and pointing out to these "Lutheran" personages, will it take, to either get them to change the error of their ways, or for them to initiate a concerted effort to rid their perspective Lutheran synods of the name, "Lutheran?"

Nathan M. Bickel

www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org

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GJ - I am perplexed that anyone could claim a quia subscription to the Book of Concord and claim that people are justified, forgiven, and saved without faith. Yet the people named in the headline all advocate that nonsense.