ELCA Watching Her Seminaries Disappear - But Fund-Raising Continues Unabated

Louise Johnson is the new president of Wartburg Seminary,
which was founded by Loehe. ELCA has far too many
seminaries and too few divinity students.

Top mafia boss Liz Eaton has one goal in higher education -
put her lady supporters in positions of power, whether qualified or not, especially when not qualified - like Louise Johnson.

From: "Rev. Dr. Craig L. Nessan, Academic Dean of Wartburg Theological Seminary" <development@wartburgseminary.edu>

Date: December 29, 2017 6:15:41 AM CST

Subject: The Sent Shepherd

Reply-To: development@wartburgseminary.edu

“The people were scattered like sheep without shepherds. How can we ignore their need?" Dear Dr. Ichabod,  How can we ignore their need? This was the plea that caught the attention of Wartburg Seminary founder Wilhelm Loehe to address the emergency need for leaders in the United States over 160 years ago. From this legacy, the power of God's call through the Gospel of Jesus Christ has transformed the world through hundreds of graduates sent in to ministry as pastors and deacons. Loehe, like the shepherds of Luke's retelling, responded to God’s call to share the Gospel. Extending the invitation to those who have gifts to serve the church as leaders remains one of our most urgent callings. Because of you we have been able to walk alongside so many future leaders with exciting innovation for a new day. Leaders who are sent as disciples in Jesus’ name to make disciples in Jesus’ name. Sent to hear the name of Jesus as the promise of your own belovedness. Sent to speak the name of Jesus to others to tell them of their belovedness. Sent to teach in Jesus' name everything Jesus has commanded.  Thank you for your vital partnership in our ever-urgent mission to form and send leaders to meet the needs of our church. Will you join us yet again in this shared call? We are grateful for partners old and new with whom we travel this road!  GIVE TODAY Shalom, Rev. Dr. Craig L. Nessan Academic Dean, Wartburg Theological Seminary  P.S. Your gift enables us to send leaders into congregations year after year. Will you accompany these students with your prayers and financial support?

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GJ - Loehe also founded Ft. Wayne. CFW Walther asked Loehe to give him the Ft. Wayne property for free and keep up his financial support of the school.

Loehe started the LCMS - not the other way around. His pastors invited the Perrysville, Missouri Lutherans to join them, but Loehe conveniently became a bad guy and Walther absorbed the glory for himself.

Most of us know little about the Loehe pastors and the Iowa Synod, which became part of the old American Lutheran Church in 1930 and in 1960 The American Lutheran Church.

 Reu became more conservative in his career, and the
liberals have never forgiven him for his falling away from their goals.

Reu was a genius scholar, someone who made himself an expert in German catechisms and earned an honorary doctorate in Germany for his labors. His lectures on unionism, quoted in the graphic are especially relevant today.

Wartburg Seminary named their library after Reu, which reminds me of Capital Seminary (now Trinity) naming a room the Lenski room but not selling his books in their own student bookstore. Cap/Trinity Seminary is being absorbed into the university, a polite way of saying goodbye (ditto Pacific and Southern seminaries).

The old conservative Lutherans kept working, praying, and worshiping with the apostates until no one was left to look back at their history and ask, "Where did we go wrong?"

 "Pass the popcorn" has great significance in the
soda and snack congregations of WELS.