Boredom Mounts as the WELS Convention Approaches

WELS PR Director Joel Hochmuth is reflecting
from the prison cell, for child porn and re-offending.
Mark Schroeder assured him and everyone else that Joel was forgiven.

The WELS convention is expected to re-anoint Mark Schroeder as the embodiment of the Holy Spirit on earth, blessing the agenda of the Jeske-Patterson Crime Family. Schroeder has total control of the sect now, which means Jeske has a free ride to do whatever he wants.

 How did WELS lose $300,000 from one pastor?
Answer - they lost $8 million or so from the chapel fund, MLC.

Some notable achievements of Schroeder, who joins a long line of incompetent non-leaders of WELS:

• After spending $250,000 on financial control software, Schroeder lost $300,000 to Piepenbrink's embezzlement. 
• Various church workers have been arrested, the latest being Dave Bendix from St. Paul Lutheran Church in New Ulm. As Fred Adrian famously said, after losing a lawsuit over another felon, "Don't worry. We have insurance to cover the $400,000 settlement awarded by the court."
• WELS managed to steal the congregational property and endowment of Historic St. John in Milwaukee, using a pricey law firm. Jeske pals were crucial in handling this WELS application of Walther's Pastoral Theology. Current pastor. This is the same parish and pastor WELS kicked out. Matt the Heretic Impaler did the same thing for the LCMS, openly approving the theft of Minnesota campus church.
• Mark and Avoid Jeske routinely runs his Change or Die conferences with ELCA female clergy leading, along with Church and Changers.
• WELS Pastor Dave Wendt offered to gang rape a young liberal woman because she posted things he did not like. Mark Jeske did a little spin blog post to whitewash it as much as possible. Threatening bodily harm is a felony, but Wendt skated.
• Schroeder was first elected in 2007 as an anti-Church Growth reformer. Ski and Glende have enjoyed 8 years of absolution for all their antics, including suing the female victim of their abuse in court. Schroeder intervened personally and Ski got an insta-call to Texas from Kudu Don Patterson, without the district approving his shift from unemployed non-pastor to CRM status. Magic Mark is a good nickname for the Synod President.
• Fellow reformer DP Jon Buchholz has been at war, making the sect safe for UOJ, teaming up with Jay Webber, another insecure and poorly educated MDiv. Proving all UOJists are liars, Buchholz promised to discuss the issue of justification by faith with the Rydecki congregation, but kicked the pastor and congregation out instead, attempting to foreclose on the property and steal it. The same duo showed up to a miserably small audience to bore the Emmaus Conference, 2015, with their fatuous nonsense.
• Under Schroeder's non-leadership, WELS is even gayer than lavender hose, with so many examples that I am only going to link the cross-dressing, gay videos, and trans-gender links.
• Scott Barefoot has become the most traveled speaker in WELS, complaining that WELS District Presidents and Synodical Council members have gay children but will not openly address the issue.
• Four years ago, the New NIV was actually debated, with Tom Jeske mugging and grinning. Only one DP, now replaced by Don Patterson, objected, but overall feelings were quite negative and the Mequon prez scowled at those who affronted the majesty of his office. Now the New NIV is official at Northworst Publishing House and the prospective hymnal.

Which leader's son hosted a cross-dressing congregational picnic,
with children putting women's makeup on men?
Yes - Wayne Mueller's Church and Change son - Adam/Eve.
New meaning for Church and Change? Become trans-Jennered!

And so will Mark Jeske.

Look at the next Change or Die! conference
from the Jeske-Patterson Crime Family.
They convet the Enthusiasts and want their clap-trap
to replace Lutheran worship and doctrine.
And it has.

From 2012 - Tales from the Crypt - Many Familiar Names

Dimestore Liam has left a new comment on your post "Mequon Connection in Jeske Exit":

Wow, I know a lot of those guys... I had no Idea the WELS had gotten so much crazier since my exit in 1992! Mark Jeske played in a "Christian Rock" band with a guy I knew, I met him at the '85 Youth Rally; Tom Jeske was my tutor at MLS that Fall... R.e. Mequon '78, Mark Porinsky was my Pastor from 1979-1985; Kenneth Jahnke was the emissary who had to explain why I was kicked out of St. Mark's, Flat Rock MI & then why Pastor Gore & I were 86d from the WELS a couple of years later, poor guy...

As for Mark Freier, I got in a shoving match with him in the chapel at HVLHS in 1987 because he was mis-quoting scripture in his sermon and I stood up and called him a liar, hahaha... He jumped down from the pulpit and took a swing at me. That wasn't the last time I had a run-in with him, either. That guy is a complete lunatic! Oh yeah, I also just finished reading Mark Braun's "A Tale Of Two Synods" immediately before getting online this morning, which is how I ended up on this website again...

Patterson will coach you, for a monthly fee.
Learn how to dump pastoral duties on an assistant,
his salary paid by a WELS grant.

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GJ - Freier's "Emergent Church" in South Lyons, Michigan is now a Covenant congregation. Like Kelm starting an ELCA church, Bob Mueller and Paul Kuske started a Covenant parish - with three WELS pastors getting it going.

Freier emerged as a consultant being paid about $50,000 to advise Parlow's congregation in how to make a faster exit from Lutherdom.

Freier bragged on his website that he would perform a marriage for anyone, any religion - atheist, Hindu, you name it.

Mark Freier will coach you to success.

Birds Invented Social Networking

Ann Geddes photography.

My local college students were tweeting constantly, even between classes. They had fun, fun, fun, til their teacher took their smart-phones away.

Birds invented social networking, which is probably why the software designers picked the name - Twitter - and used the name tweet for the messages.

If the Creator had not designed birds to communicate food and water sources, only the intrepid would live and thrive. All the birds I see in the yard announce the presence of food by discussing it in the trees and bushes.

We grow strawberries, wild strawberries, blueberries, elderberries, beautyberries,
blackberries, and raspberries.

In Midland I had one area where I put as much organic matter as possible in the soil, as suggested by one organic article. As predicted, that little plot was alive with earthworms. Every time I worked in that soil, the birds in a large tree began chortling with pleasure.

Midland is also where I bought garbage bags of excess popped corn from an event, and scattered it on the snow. Doves stayed in the bushes and began reacting as soon as I entered the garage and came out with their breakfast.

Humans try to keep secrets. One man spent 40 years looking for the Lost Dutchman Goldmine, outside of Phoenix. He would not tell anyone where he had looked, as if that would give away where it might be - not that he knew.

I have heard people say they knew where a large stretch of wildflowers were in bloom - but that was kept a secret.

Charles Dickens argued in one novel that the best way to create a large group was to announce membership being a big secret. Only then would people join.

Norma Boecker

But birds announce food by making a big racket, and they splash in their community pool like little kids. This noise has a blessed effect on the yard and garden. Many birds pair up and occupy one area. Cardinals are a good example of pairing. Others - sparrows, starlings, grackles - arrive in flocks and depart in flocks. Together they take turns eating.

The squirrels take their food first, although the starlings will fuss with them at times, such as having seed in a desk drawer. The squirrel pops out to drive the starling away for a time. Scattering the food gives more creatures a chance to eat at the same time.

The eating and noise also communicate the weather. When the rain is coming and when the rain is going to continue, the birds eat ahead, even in the rain. When fair weather is expected,  I can put berries out in the afternoon and no one bothers to get most of them.

Birds like the sound of water dripping. I once had a darkroom bottle I could set to drip slowly into a water dish. A leaking bucket will also serve. Lacking those, a soaker hose on a fence will drip seductively, and the presence of many birdbaths will make stopovers a habit. "There is always water and suet at the Jackson Rose Farm," they tweet.

I wonder about - but do not condemn - the gardeners who stop feeding birds in the summer. They reason that the birds have plenty to eat, which is quite true. I use 5 to 7 pounds of suet as the mainstay, because the suet eating birds are insect eaters. When other gardeners spotted June bugs - aka Japanese beetles - I had starlings and grackles instead. Those noisy cousins are great bug and grub eaters.

Nota bene - birds are not dependent upon human food, but we are dependent upon them. I like having a supply of food because flocks come through when migrating, and more birds can settle in the neighborhood. As one bird magazine observed, bird food is most important when their food is scarce, especially after a sleet storm covers the bugs in the bark supply. Extra food means more calories to shrug off winter.

Logs resting on soil = shelter, perches, and food.

We built the rustic fence in about 30 minutes, using the dead tree, so the birds would have a place to perch, the tree would feed the soil creatures, and the toads would have shelter. Now that I know more about beetles, the infantry of beneficial insects, a static shelter is perfect as a base for resting and breeding. They often work at night.