Monday, January 15, 2018

WELS Feeling the Shrinkage of the Church Shrinkage Movement - Bad Doctrine, Stealth Women's Ordination, Marketing. Feminist Bibles

 March in step, keep your head low,
hate Luther, and love the New NIV.
Good boy, you may get a call.

From the BORAM - WELS - Via a Reader
Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary prepares pastors for the worldwide mission of WELS, including churches and cultural groups within its confessional fellowship. In partnership with sister seminaries and theological training programs of its fellowship, WLS accomplishes that singular purpose with two distinct emphases. Primarily, WLS prepares men to begin pastoral ministry by providing the spiritual, theological, and professional training needed to enter that ministry. WLS also partners with pastors in their ministry-long pursuit of spiritual, theological, and professional growth in all their God-given callings.
Our current situation
Enrollment
Our calling
This year we had 30 juniors, 28 middlers, and 26 seniors on campus. In addition, 25 vicars are serving in congregations throughout the United States and Canada this year. One student is serving in an emergency situation and one colloquy student joined us on campus, bringing our enrollment to 112.
For the 2017–18 school year we anticipate 30 juniors, 30 middlers, and 26 seniors. With 27 vicars in the field, this would put our total student enrollment at 113.
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86 students on campus. 
Reader - Also, I don’t know how they got to 112.  The math isn’t correct from the information given.

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GJ - Their math skills are similar to their language skills. In 1987, 60 graduated.