Bethany Worship Questions and Comments

Norman Teigen has left a new comment on your post "Dial-Up Works with Ustream":

Greg,

I don't understand how you can set up a congregation as a Minnesota corporation when the actual site is in Arizona?

Norman Teigen
ELS layman

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GJ - Norm, Bethany Lutheran Church began in New Ulm, Minnesota, in 1998, as an independent congregation. We hired a lawyer and incorporated there, then got our IRS number. We have been operating as Bethany with teleconference bridges.

Kuske's LRP in Columbus did not get tax-exempt status, which made things sticky for someone who donated a large sum. Kuske is the financial genius of the Michigan District, WELS.

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A. Nony Mouse has left a new comment on your post "Dial-Up Works with Ustream":

Anything to make a buck, eh, "Dr." Jackson? Amazing how a church you started in MN now finds its way to AZ. I wonder what the MN Attorney General's office would say about that. Maybe I'll send him your blog and he can investigate.

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GJ - Rev. Mouse took a long time for his latest squeak. He was going to investigate my degrees in a previous post. If he had the guts to do so, he would have to retract and apologize. That would be precedent setting for him and for WELS. They are bothered by people who earn degrees at accredited institutions.

I explained matters above, responding to Norm Teigen's polite, signed comment. Has anyone else noticed that the nasty notes are always anonymous, that the anonymous writers express their terror of becoming known?

ELCA has its headquarters in Chicago and is incorporated in Minnesota. Rev. Mouse needs to brush up on his Lutheran doctrine and on his corporate law expertise.

I have been a tent-maker for 12 years and enjoying it.

KJV Acts 18:1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; 2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. 3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

Most of my work is teaching, and the opportunities are growing. I was not looking for a new activity, but I am pleased it is working out so well. I expected about six households viewing the Good Friday service. We peaked at 21. I know we had East Coast and West Coast viewers because they wrote (and signed their names)!