Scott Zerbe was a guest in the Michigan State Prison System, thanks to his vicarage affair with a minor girl. Fred Adrian - supervisor. $400,000 initial judgment against WELS, Inc. |
WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD
09/15/2014
N O M I N A T I O N L I S T
The Conference of Presidents invites all voting members of WELS to nominate a qualified pastor, male teacher, male staff minister, or male lay member for the called position of administrator of WELS Prison Ministry. This position is under the Commission on Special Ministries, part of the Congregation and Ministry Support Group.
Candidates may be pastors, teachers, staff ministers, chaplains, or lay members with jail ministry experience and at least five to ten years ministry experience. He must be able to faithfully teach and apply the Word of God, to train adults for volunteer service, to work with correctional institution administrators, and to administer a small staff in New Ulm, Minnesota.
He will also assist the Prison Ministry Committee in developing face-to-face jail and prison ministries and oversee its Bible study publication work. He must have a passion for reaching the lost with the gospel, enthusiasm for working with and encouraging volunteers in ministry, and strong communication skills. Nominations must be received by Sept. 29, 2014. Access the nomination form at: http://www.wels.net/about-wels/synod-reports/nomination-alert Or call the President's Office, 414-256-3202. The list of candidates will be published at: http://www.wels.net/about-wels/synod-reports/nomination-alert
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GJ
Fred would be a good candidate. How many pastoral supervisors see their vicar off to state prison? Spell that "stupor-visor." |
DP Ed Werner also went to state prison. when he began molesting a second generation of girls, the mothers hauled him to court. |
Honorable Mention
Al Just went to prison for murdering his wife, but he was not there long enough to gain real experience in prison ministry.
William Tabor participated in the murder of his wife, but he never spent a day in prison. His mistress was sentenced but he went as a pastor and widower to Escanaba, Michigan.
Various synod staff members and at least one Synod President should have gone to state prison for obstruction of justice in capital cases.
WELS's Meditations, March-May 2014, for Monday, 17 March 2014.
The second column has a great recipe for murder, molestation, and abuse -
"No matter what you did yesterday -- or failed to do -- and no matter what you will do tomorrow, God has forgiven you."
What better words to keep people coming back to prison and continuing this worthwhile effort!
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Pastor Leon Piepenbrink was initially convicted of multiple felonies in slipping a large chunk of change away from the WELS. Great software you installed, Mark Schroeder. It cost almost as much as this one theft, which happened long afterward the controls were established. Controls? - that did not happen before, did it? Why aren't those men in prison?
Pastor Leon Piepenbrink was convicted of multiple felonies in slipping a large chunk of change away from the WELS. Great software you installed, Mark Schroeder. It cost almost as much as this one theft, which happened long afterward the controls were established. Controls? - that did not happen before, did it? Why aren't those men in prison?
He was "helping the needy" and was sentenced to only one year in the hoosegow. Does he have the experience to become the head of prison ministry?