Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Time of Disgrace: Teen Mother Preaches to WELS Tee...":
This is not sponsored by the synod. It's a local effort put on by St. Marcus and friends.
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GJ - I will concede that this is not THE Official synodical youth rally. Nota bene - this event is not billed at the St. Marcus Youth Rally, Time of Gath Youth Rally, or even the Milwaukee Youth Rally. The title is:
WELS Teen Rally 2010,
so it cloaks itself as an official WELS event.The Time of Gath links on the WELS.net website and St. Marcus' current WELS membership suggest an approval which is both unquestioned and undeserved.
Wisconsin Lutheran College is not a WELS college.
Thoughts of Faith is not ELS, just packed with ELS staff and board members, with missionaries commissioned at ELS conferences. Nothing to see, move on.
Church and Change is not WELS. Ok, WELS started it, but that is irrelevant.
WELS Prayer Warriors are not WELS. Ok, WELS started them too, with another grant. Legalist! Trouble-maker!
Pots of Pietism are not WELS, just WELS led and Fuller trained.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Engage Maximum Deniability Drive...Now!":
Thoughts of Faith came 'under the governance and control' of the ELS through the Board for World Outreach (formerly the Board for Foreign Missions), at the synod's 2009 convention.
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GJ - I knew someone would post this about TOF. They were quick to deny TOF was ELS even though an ELS pastor ran it, an ELS/WELS board governed it, and the missionaries were all ELS and commissioned at ELS services by the ELS president. What was it before 2009? - Methodist?