Live Streaming the St. John Lutheran Church Concert. Look for the Saved File at the Link.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/stjohnsmke

St. John Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, is proof that the WELS District Popes are alike in their vindictiveness and stupidity.

Their DP kicked Pastor Kevin Hastings out, and the congregation left with him. The building and the pipe organ are gems from the past.

Sometimes the Sausage Factory organizes kiddie tours for the seminary students. James P. Tiefel has brought some down - I hope he wasn't driving!

James Huebner has erased Gausewitz from the memory of Grace, Milwaukee, not far away.

St. John has likewise been flushed down the memory hole of the cult, even though the congregation stayed with the urban population and provided a church and school for that multi-culturalism that WELS now joins ELCA in promoting.

Old John Brenner, the Synod President, would not take government money for the school, not even for the milk program.

Mark Jeske's empire is built on tax money going to his voucher school business. Mark and Avoid is the nominal pastor at St.Marcus, also in urban Milwaukee.

Jeske is on the Thrivent board, so he is the paymaster for Mark Schroeder and Matt Harrison.

SP Mark Schroeder has conceded leadership of WELS to Mark Jeske, Church and Change. Old Brenner's grandson teaches (parrots the party line) at the Sausage Factory. Thus some make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom.

But ELCA Pays for Abortion on Demand in Its Health Plan. 2012 Christmas Message from ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson - News Releases - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

WELS and Missouri are circling the drain with ELCA.
They all work together.
They all have their trotters in the Thrivent trough.

But ELCA Pays for Abortion on Demand in Its Health Plan. 2012 Christmas Message from ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson - News Releases - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:

2012 Christmas Message from ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson
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     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), shared a Christmas greeting today with the more than 4 million members of this church. Hanson also delivered his greeting to the ELCA's full communion and ecumenical partners and member churches of The Lutheran World Federation.
      The full text of the presiding bishop's message follows:

“I greet you with these words from Luke (2:12): ‘This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.’

“You will find a child -- a child. This year, the Christmas story is inseparable from our deep sorrow for the children of Newtown, all who died and all who mourn.

“We can make no sense of such violence, so we cry out for mercy. And God hears our pleas. God responds with words of promise saying, ‘I am with you. I am with you in Jesus, the child lying in a manger. I am with you in Jesus who has bourn your grief. I am with you in Jesus on the Cross and risen from the dead.

“God’s promise is (that) nothing in all creation will separate you from God’s love in Jesus. So amidst the unspeakable, we can join the angel choir singing, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace.’

“Because our hope is in Christ, we can rejoice in the wonder of Jesus’ birth. I wish you a blessed Christmas.”

Mark S. Hanson
Presiding Bishop
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

     Visit http://youtu.be/X7p-YLz43cU for a video version of the 2012 Christmas Message.

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