The Life Coaching Scam in WELS - Starts at Holy Word Austin, Texas. DP Kudu Don Patterson's Video. $1350 Fee for Coaching!

Rick Lowen - see him push out his biceps in the video below.

https://www.crosstrainministries.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CrossTrain-Registration-Form.pdf

Plans for Martin Chemnitz Press

When someone is banned, blocked, and shunned at supposed Lutheran publishing firms, including "independent" lapdog ones - even the micro-mini ELDONUT's bookmobile - the best approach is to distribute books.

Martin Chemnitz Press is expanding the titles available by print and Kindle e-books, not to sell a lot of them, which is impossible without distribution, but to make them available at cost or slightly above cost.

Frank Fiorenza, now enjoying an endowed chair at Harvard University, made this point when I was driving him home from Notre Dame, after class, "I don't care how many books you write, Greg, or how good they are, you have to have distribution."

Like Roland Bainton and Stan Hauerwas, Fiorenza had books everywhere.

I started a blog called Martin Chemnitz Friends since he is the key figure in defining Lutheran Orthodoxy. Last night I told some LCMS classmates that I was not Missouri. Three of them, kidding me, took two steps backwards, and we all laughed. I pointed out that I had about 500 LCMS friends on Facebook, which says something.

Chemnitz is the key figure because he united the divided Lutherans after the death of Luther. He was not alone, of course, but he was the senior editor of the Book of Concord and a genius as rare as Luther himself.

I will use the Martin Chemnitz Friends blog to announce book news and to mention the work of others, because social media attention really matters. I will compose the post on Ichabod the Glory Has Departed and copy it over to Martin Chemnitz Friends.

The new blog is fed onto the author's page on Amazon.

The Plan
I am moving titles to Amazon because the author's price for printed books is far below  that from Lulu.com. I was always waiting for their special one-day Lulu sales.

If a church or a group of pastors would like a bunch of books, I will send them at price plus shipping. I can list those prices later. Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant is only $6 printed, without shipping, one third the retail price.

Another advantage of Amazon is the Kindle e-book. Those books are ideal for immediate delivery and use on all mobile devices. I use Kindle for writing so I can copy and paste quotations that include the citation.

People can easily bring their smartphones to class and read from them.

Be Life-Coached To Become a Life-Coach. Like the Drug Addicts Who Get Counseled and Become Drug Counselors. WELS Overlapping Money Scams. From 2013.

Elton Stroh did his coaching or mentoring at Martin Luther College.
Note that the online student listening via the computer near the window.
Stroh coached the Latte Couch Church into oblivion;
and senior pasture Randy Hunter was invited for Evangelism Day at the school.
MLC Evangelism Day = Jeske's Church and Changers Day.

Elton Stroh advertises on the Jeske conference website:

Special services

• Annual Ministry Planning Event/Retreat
• Developing multi-site ministries
• Coaching and/or mentoring
• Organizing staff for maximum effectiveness
• Leadership development
• Team building
• Organizational alignment
• Assisting with conflict management

This seems to overlap with Grace in Action, Cross-Train Ministries

CrossTrain Ministries

Overview

CrossTrain Ministries provides coaching services to identified Christian leaders with the stated goal of improving spiritual leadership skills amongst lay leaders, ministry professionals, and general volunteers. In conjunction with this spiritual coaching, CrossTrain also provides topical seminars with the goal of improving the quality of ministry leadership, both professional and volunteer, and ultimately providing the skills which will promote leadership of a higher capacity and excellence to involve all in ministry.

Services Provided

1. Coaching networks for professional and volunteer church leaders.

These networks include and utilize the following:

a) A well developed, professional, and applicable curricula

b) Skilled trainers as coaches

c) Printed, audio, and video training resources

d) A website including resources, recommended books, postings of Q/A's about various ministry related programs, personal physical and mental health information, and more always being added and developed

e) Meeting schedule for site-based, webinar-based, and individual coaching opportunities

2. A minimum of two site-based conferences to train and equip ministry leaders, both professional and volunteer per year. These conferences include

a) A four-day public seminar event. Topics include leadership, spiritual resiliency, management, communication, conflict resolution and other topics related to leadership in the ministry. Each participant leaves the conference with a personal action plan and a ministry action plan that has a time line and accountability. Each participant is assigned not only a coach but a peer coach from the group also.

b) Printed materials for the participants

c) Recorded seminars and supporting materials for distribution via the internet. This includes materials on topics such as leadership, spiritual resiliency, communication, conflict resolution, strategic planning, relational evangelism, time management, financial peace, pastoral counseling, anxiety, depression, family dynamics, healthy marriage, parenting, chemical dependencies, sexual addictions, spiritual abuse, dealing with chronic illness such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, etc., dealing with chronic pain and other typical needs-based topics encountered in today's culture and society.

3. Development of small groups' leader training, including:

a) Pilot groups for the purpose of modeling group leadership techniques and group dynamics, with an emphasis on the development of spiritual resiliency support groups.

b) Personal one-on-one coaching in small groups' management by invitation to witness the pilot groups and be trained on the management of such groups.

Summary

CrossTrain Ministries provides a Biblically based leadership foundation from which everyone can begin to fulfill and prepare people to fulfill the "Great Commission" (Matthew 28:18-20). CrossTrain exists to embody the servant leadership model of Jesus Christ. The harvest is great and leaders are needed.

This Is How You Get Coached To Become a Coach

Let the hilarity begin as we contemplate the scam of life-coaching.

Who are these life-coaches, you wonder?

Rick Loewen. 

Rick is currently called by Crosswalk Lutheran Church. At Crosswalk, he serves for a subsidiary ministry called CrossTrain Ministries. CrossTrain Ministries is a self-supporting ministry in partnership with Grace in Action Ministries.

Jeff Gunn!

The means of grace are the key to people growing in their faith. One way to deliver the means of grace to the people of our congregation is via a groups system. [GJ - Note the greasy bait and switch. Pietistic cell groups are the means of grace for Jeff, whose son is an atheist. Start at home, Jeff. Crosswalk is embraced by DP Jon-Boy Buchholz, who once pretended to be against Crosswalk and tried to de-fund the parish. Now Jeff sits on his lap at WELS conferences.]

Kudu Don, on the right, is still listed as a VP.
His drunken "spiritual retreats" are legendary.

He currently serves as the first vice president of the South Central District of the WELS. His passion is mission work and church leadership. His hobbies are exercise and anything that happens outdoors, like killing dangerous African deer.

Grace Milwaukee barista!
From the coffee counter to coaching in one  easy lesson.
Order your new business cards upon enrollment.

Daron’sown (sic) development has included being coached by Rick Loewen, then advancing to a life coaching certificate and coaching other pastors. He currently serves as mission pastor at Holy Word Lutheran Church in Pflugerville, TX, which is nextdoor to another WELS mission.

Your Costs?

• Commitment to receive 12 months of services - including a monthly webinar and personal time with your coach
• 3 days of your life for personal and professional training at a conference center*
• Personal time for completing homework including self-assessments, personal inventories, specialized readings, and much more
•  Willingness to exchange ministry strategies, Bible studies, and sermons
• Willing to coach fellow participants
• $1300.00 for the twelve months of services

*Services and costs for the 3 day conference subject to vary

Get yourself a  barista with a real bar,
thanks to lavish funding from SP Schroeder and Keith Free.