Midnight Special - Kudu Don Patterson Is One of the Oldest To Speak at the Next Conference

Kudu Don Patterson friended Tim Glende on Facebook. Ski soon became a neighbor to Patterson.

 

 Patterson wore the outfit, so I added the movie poster. 

Patterson staff speaks to youth: "Never grow up!"

National WEL$ Conference on Leadership

Kudu Don (his email name) and his wife Mary will be speakers at this 2023 conference. He and Paul Calvin Kelm were asked to give papers to the Mordor seminary on how to improve it - and the school went downhill even faster. Doubtless his wife will not be able to make things much worse. Her ladies conferences are legendary in Texas.

 Patterson has promoted more non-Lutheran religious salesmen than any other in WELS, unless we count Kelm and Valleskey.

 Patterson is not Church and Changer, though he spoke there and went to the "final" conference. Mark Jeske just moved it up a notch and began including ELCA lady pastors.

 Hooray for Holy Word! Too bad Patterson rejects the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace.

 Wherever there is a tacky celebrity, Ski and Glende are there. They employ the same failed gimmicks. Patterson just gets more direct funding from Holy Mother WELS.

 Patterson and others have publicly howled over my attempts at Photoshop, humor, and Luther's 
Biblical doctrine. Kudu Don stole my graphic, above, and put it in his own FB folder! He and other WELS leaders like to whisper via their precious "WELS grapevine." They think theirs is a clever way to slander anonymously, slam down the shun button, and protect their felons.

 Henry Town said...

You wrote, Matthias: "Nobody actually has any idea what GIA is. The experts' best guess is that it's some sort of mish-mash of various Church Growth entities."

Some "experts" I have spoken with tell me that the entities of GIA are becoming more and more accepted and powerful within the WELS. Consider that Pastor Don Patterson is very visible on the GIA website and now he is in his first term as the District President of the South Central District.

I've even been told that one entity of GIA, Crosstrain Coaching, had a prominent role in returning Pastor Ski to ministry in a WELS congregation.

The GIA website may show some neglect, but the people associated with it are not neglecting any opportunity to grow in influence within the WELS. If for no other reason, their free reign at this conference ought not be ignored by others in the synod.

August 7, 2014 at 12:37 PM

 Matthias Flach said...

Yes, Henry Town, I can confirm that Crosstrain Coaching "helped" Ski with his "personal issues". He was then rushed to CRM status to accept a call into Patterson's district.

Quite a coincidence, no?

 Melanchthon said...

So if I understand correctly... Patterson's "business" took Ski on as a paying "client"... and then Patterson almost immediately put Ski on a call list in his district?! Gosh, that stinks to high heaven.

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GJ - That's nothin' folks. Wisconsin Child and Family Services treated Joel Hochmuth for his addiction to child porn (young boys). Joel still worked at WELS headquarters, where his stash was found by the FBI. Mark Schroeder immediately spoke up for Joel and pronounced him absolved of all sin. Joel got an incredibly expensive lawyer, a very light sentence, and began offending again.

Note that Patterson is famous for gathering a bunch of WELS workers and taking them to the Exponential pan-demon conference in Orlando, Florida. One thing you will never find there - a Lutheran speaker. No, the Lutherans sit in the audience, salivating about how they can employ those same lures, sugar-coating the Gospel while beating the snot out of their flocks.

Patterson is not--and I repeat--not a Church and Change leader, unless that is another GA lie. He has spoken there and he went to the last conference in the Milwaukee area. But he denies being a Changer and I believe that he denies it.

Patterson did hire Cornerstone for fleecing the sheep. Ron Roth, paleo-Shrinker, was head of that business before they buried him. Cornerstone never divulges their conflict of interest. They have their synod rain-makers always recommending that Cornerstone be used, and it is a dual LCMS-WELS "ministry," like Mark and Avoid Jeske's.

Patterson's conference or district had an entire meeting on the joys of UOJ. The papers were sloppy, moronic, and utterly devoid of exegesis.

Remember this, when WELS leaders tell you to write a letter or sit down and speak with them, they are cobras inviting the mouse for a meeting.

ELCA To Honor Professor Pastor Bishop Seminary President Guy Erwin

ELCA Churchwide Assembly honors Indigenous people

8/1/2022 1:05:00 PM

CHICAGO — The 2022 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will honor and celebrate Indigenous people through presentations and worship during this weeklong event, to be held Aug. 8-12 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton will open the assembly on Tuesday, Aug. 9, with a land acknowledgment noting that the gathering is taking place on the original and ancestral homelands of the Shawnee, Miami and Kaskaskia peoples.

On Wednesday, Aug. 10, the assembly will honor Indigenous people through various observances and presentations:

• The American Indian and Alaska Native Lutheran Association has invited assembly participants to wear red to recognize and publicize the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
   
• The assembly will recognize the Rev. Marlene Whiterabbit Helgemo, who died July 22. Helgemo was the first Native American woman ordained in the Lutheran church.
   
• The assembly will hear the first in-person pronouncement of "A Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to American Indian and Alaska Native People" and receive an update on the work of the Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery Task Force. The declaration is a direct result of the social policy resolution adopted by the 2016 Churchwide Assembly. Following the presentation, Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, will address the assembly. 

• The words and music for the service of Holy Communion are derived from a variety of Native American sources and designed with the help of Indigenous people who are leaders in the ELCA. The Rev. Joann Conroy, president of the ELCA American Indian and Alaska Native Lutheran Association, will preach, and the Rev. Guy Erwin, president of United Lutheran Seminary and a member of the Osage Nation, will serve as presiding minister. Other worship participants include Eaton and several native leaders from the ELCA. The worship service will begin with a prayer song offered by Imnizaska Family Drum. Other elements during worship will include a prayer to the four directions, which will incorporate a gathering of waters from the four directions within the territory of the ELCA, and a time of repentance as called for in the Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery.
   
• The worship offering will support the Pine Ridge Reservation initiative. ELCA Indigenous Ministries and Tribal Relations and ELCA World Hunger are partnering with the Oglala Sioux Tribe and local organizations to support the tribe as it addresses homelessness, housing, education, cultural preservation, livelihood opportunities, Two Spirit support and more on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
  

Throughout the week, assembly participants are encouraged to visit the American Indian/Alaska Native Community Learning Space, located in the convention hall in rooms B140-145.

The ELCA Churchwide Assembly is the highest legislative body of the denomination. This gathering will be composed of more than 900 voting members serving on behalf of the 3.3 million members of the ELCA. Meeting under the theme "Embody the Word," the assembly will participate in plenary discussions to make decisions about the work of this church. Attendees will also spend time in worship and Bible study.

Live video of the assembly will be accessible at www.elca.org/CWA-2022.

To register as press or to access other news and media information, contact Candice Hill Buchbinder at Candice.Buchbinder@elca.org.

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About the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:
The ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, with nearly 3.3 million members (started with 5.3 million in 1987) in more than 8,900 worshiping communities (started with 10,000 in 1987) across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region. Known as the church of "God's work. Our hands.," (Thrivent's Money) the ELCA emphasizes the saving grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unity among Christians and service in the world. The ELCA's roots are in the writings of the German church reformer Martin Luther.

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