Snowden Sims - Who Role-Played a Gay GA Pope - Is Now Michigan District President, WELS

Pastor Snowden Sims, St. Paul, Columbus, Ohio -
where Floyd Stolzenburg started his evil, little Church Growth Agency, breathlessly announced as "the first Church Growth agency in WELS." When I witnessed the GA hazing event at the WELS seminary, he was chosen as GA Pope and played it gay. I last saw him on the staff of DP Buchholz' church in Tempe, Arizona.

 How small is St. Paul now?
Tim Glende got his clown church ideas from the source.
Later, when I was in Columbus, St. Paul hosted the CG speaker at their church. I attended and wrote it up for CN.

From Mirthless Mark Schroeder

Two of the districts elected new district presidents. Rev. John Seifert, who has served as the president of the Michigan District, is retiring later this summer. He has served as the Michigan District president since 1994 and was the longest serving member of the Conference of Presidents. Rev. Snowden Sims, serving at St. Paul’s, Columbus, Ohio, was elected to succeed Seifert and has already begun to serve as district president. Rev. Charles Degner has served since 2008 as president of the Minnesota District and has also announced his retirement. Rev. Dennis Klatt, serving at Holy Trinity, New Hope, Minn., was elected to succeed him and has also begun his work as the Minnesota District president.

We thank God for the faithful service of Seifert and Degner, and we ask for his gracious blessings on Sims and Klatt.

100th anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod

2018 marks the 100th anniversary of our sister synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS). The ELS traces its history back to 1853, when the first Norwegian Synod was organized in the midwestern United States. In 1917 the Norwegian Synod merged with two other Norwegian groups. A small group of pastors and congregations were opposed to the merger for doctrinal reasons; they met to form a new church body that was called the Norwegian Synod of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church. The name was later changed to the Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

The ELS comprises approximately 20,000 baptized members with approximately 150 congregations. The ELS operates Bethany Lutheran College and Bethany Lutheran Seminary in Mankato, Minn.

We join our ELS brothers and sisters in thanking God for his blessings on our sister synod.

Serving in Christ,
President Mark Schroeder

 I remember John Seifert dumping pastors whose sin was criticizing Church Growth. Not allowed. And his CG district is in the dumper after his long leadership.
He was known for using the Judas goat method perfected by Ted Jungkuntz - encourage someone to say something, then leave him twisting in the wind.