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| WELS deals with sexual harassment by a pastor with a fake removal (thanks to SP Schroeder and DP Engelbrecht) - plus silencing and harassing the husband who objected. Try that in Arkansas, Ski, and you will be singing in the soprano section of the choir. |
A new mission | Appleton Post-Crescent | postcrescent.com:
Fox Cities churches convert old businesses to expa...: The Core and The Mission Church are two of a growing list of Fox Cities churches that have bought existing buildings and turned them into house of worship. Click the link above for the video.
Jeff Ulman holds his son Boaz as he greets Heidi and Carson Bork of Neenah at the downtown location of The Core in Appleton. The location is the Appleton campus of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Freedom. The church recently renovated a building at Franklin and Superior streets. / Ron Page/Post-Crescent Media
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St. Peter Lutheran Church in Freedom has been reaching out lately to young, unchurched Fox Cities residents. But rather than focusing exclusively on expanding its home
base, church leaders turned to downtown Appleton to target the crucial audience at a second site.
base, church leaders turned to downtown Appleton to target the crucial audience at a second site.
St. Peter’s, a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod member, found a permanent spot for its new campus, known as The Core, in a former tavern on West Franklin Street.
The move in 2012 put the church on a growing list of congregations that have converted former businesses into houses of worship.
into houses of worship.
“Part of it’s a trend in our culture and world today where there are churches who are trying to reach people in a different way that people, who might not be looking for a traditional church, might come to and be more comfortable at. I think part of that drives it,” said the Rev. Tim Glende, lead pastor at St. Peter’s.
Glende said the premise behind the downtown campus was to bring The Core’s less traditional, multimedia and music-centered services to young adults instead of waiting for them to come to the Freedom church.
“One of our reasons for being downtown was young people go downtown. They hang out at the downtown. There’s a college downtown. It’s an area that they’re familiar with and if people come downtown for other things they’ll come downtown for church,” Glende said. “Sometimes we won’t reach that demographic of people because of the traditional church building we have and the history that we have of being a church that’s 140-plus years old.”
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| Look at the video and see the deluxe interior of the stinky old bar given almost free to St. Peter in Freedom. WELS also loaned them the money to remodel the place, even though the parish was busy in a $4 million new construction. Blessed are the poor, for they will see none of this generosity. Glende "redeveloped" his first parish in Savoy, Illinois, but ran away before ground-breaking at his coffee bar church. St. Peter, Freedom members - take note. |
