Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "In the Pope We Hope: Apostasy as a Solution to Apo...":
Golly GJ,
When I saw the following in yesterday's "Together" newsletter from WELS, I expected you to be commenting on this breaking news at your earliest opportunity. In case you missed it ...
"The Parish Assistance program will no longer exist in its current form. The COP eliminated the positions of Rev. Paul Kelm (effective Dec. 31, 2009) and Rev. Elton Stroh (effective June 30, 2010). The Forward with Lutheran Schools program (which had been a part of Parish Assistance) was placed under the responsibility of the Commission for Lutheran Schools. Should Greg Schmill accept the call as the interim director of Lutheran Schools, he will oversee a continuation of the Forward with Lutheran Schools program as time allows.
Parish Assistance is currently working with a number of congregations. In order to avoid a sudden discontinuation of services, congregations may choose to engage directly Kelm or the part-time consultants now serving them. These direct arrangements would be made between congregations and consultants and would not be a part of a synodical program. Stroh will work with other congregations now being served by Parish Assistance to determine how they will best be served.
The COP recognized that some form of consultative services to support congregations and their ministries should continue. It envisioned an entity with its own commission and director (as a part of the CMSG) that would provide short-term assessment of congregational needs and advice as to how those needs could best be met. The COP directed the synod president to appoint a committee to outline the scope and function of this new entity and to bring recommendations to the COP by its April 2010 meeting."
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GJ - I hear various things from my sources, many of them anonymous. Taint true until it is public, and like the un-election of Wayne Mueller and the retirement of Aderman, it may get undone, especially when Chicaneries are involved.
Why don't we have feature articles in FIC about congregations shrinking by 50% after being taken over by Church and Change leaders? And closing the school, to boot?
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Can We Download the Boilerplate for Free Now?":
Confidential to GJ; those churches were already shrinking. They only lost the difference up to 50% when the crusaders left because the churches were no longer legalistic. I suppose you think it was Bush 2's fault for 911 when we had eight years of Billary.
