From a Bunker Deep in WELS-land.

THE3111 01	Congregational Assimilation and Retention	Olson, Lawrence O	Searcy	Fusion: Turning First Time Guests into Fully Engaged Members of Your Church	0830745319	Regal Books		Price not yet determined.
THE3111 01	Congregational Assimilation and Retention	Olson, Lawrence O	David J. Valleskey	We believe, therefore we speak: the theology and practice of evangelism	9780810005396

Note  - this is all Olson does in a semester, plus supervising internships. Parents are paying big tuition bills or borrowing it - to keep WELS faculty from working too hard.

He is teaching an online class about doctrine this summer - extra pay. He doesn't do anything, since all the lectures for online are already recorded by Lyle Lange.

A pastor said, "Olson is harmless - everyone knows he's a heretic."

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"There is a HUGE shortage of pastors coming in the near future, and the CoP is trying to cull under-performing churches. One way to do this is vacancies. At the same time, this also eliminated under-performing pastors, of which the DPs believe there are way too many. All this was very evident at the district convention. I think at least a dozen congregations in this district are marked for closing.

The mission (sic) strategy of the WELS is to eliminate poor parishes and what they see as lousy pastors, while siphoning members over to new starts in posh area served by Golden Boy ministers. Very worldly, cut-throat, business-like, and not very Christian or Lutheran."