WELS Welfare Queens

Glende turned a prosperous Bethlehem Lutheran Church
into a prosperous Eastern Orthodox campus church,
moving out to the cornfields to build a debt-burdened Star of Bethlehem.
Star of Bethlehem is a pernicious weed - do not plant it in your yard.

Musing about the strange blogging career of Tim Glende, Ski's drinking buddy, I remembered how outraged he was that our little congregation solicited support from appreciative readers. The post about moving to Arkansas infuriated Glende so much that he had to start anonymouse blogging again and denounce an Ichabod he claimed no one (but himself) read.

Rick Techlin, later excommunicated by Glende and Ski wrote this and linked the following insert:

The video above is of the bulletin from James Skorzewski’s installation as pastor of the CORE on November 16, 2008.  The accompanying hymn on the video is “I Come, O Savior, to Thy Table” (TLH, 315) played by me on a classical guitar.

St. Paul’s Bulletin

St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church is the large WELS congregation one block from the CORE.  Recently, their church bulletin contained an insert with some information about the CORE.  Click here to download a pdf copy of that insert.

2009 Workshop for Congregations

On March 7, the Northern Wisconsin District held its 2009 Workshop for Congregations at Fox Valley Lutheran High School.  Pastor Skorzewski presented at this workshop, and here is the description of his presentation from the workshop’s brochure:

20.  Be Relevant — Pastor “Ski” James Skorzewski

This session will explore how relevant worship can be used to reach young people ages 19-35 who, statistically, are missing from churches today.  Examples will be given from Pastor Ski’s experience with such worship at St. Marcus Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, WI.  Pastor Ski will also discuss how he plans to use this approach at his new church [GJ: a lie - not a new church], The CORE in Appleton.  [2009 Workshop for Congregations Northern Wisconsin District; March 7, 2009]. 

Click here to see the entire workshop brochure.  Pastor Engelbrect is the President of the Northern Wisconsin District.

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GJ

Here is an interesting letter from Rich Techlin about Glende and St. Peter in Freedom, Wi.


No one knows how much they have spent since 2008, but these are some basic facts.

The CORE was never a mission congregation - and it is still NOT a congregation. Someone dumped a pile of money on St. Peter in Freedom so Glende could put his buddy Ski (and Ski's pal Bishop Katie) on the staff, create a fake mission, and burn money like nobody's business.

Early on, Ski, Glende, and Bishop Katie spent $250,000 on The CORE, simply plagiarizing Craig Groeschel, copying Craig's graphics, and running around to all the false teachers (Groeschel, Stanley, Driscoll, Beeson, etc) to learn how to worship.

Although St. Peter brags about having an income of $1,000,000 plus per year, Glende got a free staffer, an extra service for sheep-stealing from WELS congregations, and a WELS grant to buy a failed, stinky old  bar in downtown Appleton.

The bar cost over $500,000 and that was covered by a gift from WELS headquarters, where Schroeder has no power at all. He does not even know what is going on there, he claims.

Glende is a welfare queen. St. Peter should be self-supporting, but it needs enormous subsidies from some mysterious source, protection from godfather Engelbrecht, money for staff and a superfluous bar, plus cash from the following public begging efforts:
1. Buy Wings if you love Jesus.
2. Buy our pizza if you love Jesus.
3. Buy our chocolate bars if you love Jesus.
4. Bring in paper so we can sell it because we love Jesus.
5. Buy custom gear--The CORE--if you really love Jesus.

Mark Jeske is the model for all WELS welfare queens. His Church and Changers work together to funnel the funds into their pockets while applying for Thrivent, foundation, and ladies auxiliary gifts.

Not content with selling trinkets on the WELS.net site, which happened under Gurgle, Jeske straddled the synods to work with ELCA and the LCMS to increase his funding.

Kudu Don Patterson shows WELS how to get ahead. Every year he got himself a free vicar so he could run around the synod acting important.

Instead of offering spiritual advice as a senior pastor, he sold his services as a life-coach through another Church and Change connection. $100 a month buys you Kudu Don's most excellent tips on how to be a synod grifter.

Poor old Holy Word needs all that extra grant money, so they hired the ex-SP, Gurgle, who came out of hiding to grab another sinecure. What Gurgle did for Milcraft, he did for the Schwan funds. Let us all hope he does the same again.

Everyone could see from Gurgle's Holy Word fund-raising messages why he was elected Synod President. "He spells worse than us do!" they exclaimed, as voted to keep him in office for 14 years.