Jay Webber's Online STM School - ELCA and You Name It

Augsburg Lutheran churches brief meeting is lead (sic) by her president, Rev. Lenae Rasmussen , in the Old Sanctuary of the Institute of Lutheran Theology in Brookings 10-13-15.

Jay Webber earned his online STM at ILT -
the National Council of Churches of South Dakota:
here talking to LCMS Church Growth pal Gene Bunkowske.

The president is a "confessional" ELCA theologian,
who taught at two ELCA schools
and has no parish experience.

Institute of Lutheran Theology

CEO

Den-Wil Investments Inc

May 1983 – Present (32 years 6 months)Brookings, SD

My father, Wilbert Bielfeldt, and I have owned and operated Den-Wil Investments, Inc since 1983. We are a real estate holding, real estate management and real estate development company in eastern South Dakota, particularly in Brookings, SD. Please visit us at www.den-wil.com.

Professor of Philosophy and Religion

South Dakota State University

August 1995 – June 2010 (14 years 11 months)

Full-professor that teaches and conducts research at South Dakota's land grant university.

Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy

Grand View College ELCA

August 1990 – July 1995 (5 years)

Chair of the Departments of Religion and Philosophy: 1990-95
Head of Humanities Division: 1994-95

Assistant Professor

Bethany College ELCA

August 1987 – July 1990 (3 years)

Taught and did research at this ELCA church-related college.

Not That Kind of Puppet...Conference. LI Wows the High Tech Crowd in Oregon

Puppet is a software for managing servers, networks, computer security. Martin's team brought most of Walmart's computers under the management of this software, which is no easy task.

As a result, he was a featured speaker at the Puppet 2015 conference, where his team learned to do even more. Thousands were in the audience and watching live stream, including Ma and Pa Kettle.

The techies were quite impressed with the achievement and the speech.

During the speech I had a memory flashback, "Dad, would you help me connect the Atari?" We played on the game computer at first, using cartridges. We moved up to better versions by selling off old toys and the previous version. One time he came home from prep and we hid the latest from him, so he would sleep. I put it together in the early morning and asked him for help in doing something. He was immediately suspicious - as kids tend to be - and came in to see. It was the best graphics and memory of the time, and everyone had a lot of fun with it.

But our initial victory was getting that game computer, selling it to Mrs. I as educational. That was quite true, but we wanted the games. We aimed at her felt needs and made the sale, at Sears, after rehearsing the pitch when she was delayed by talking to hometown friends.

At first very few had a computer at home, so LI went to adult meetings where he grilled Atari fans, chemical engineers, about certain tricks and memory locations. At Northwestern College (RIP), his group loaded network games to the campus computer and erased the evidence when they were done - all at night. That was the start of his interest in networking computers.

Oddly enough, he got me into training when we lived in Phoenix and he was already at Walmart. One person got me into Cisco Network training, and I gave all those books to LI. That prompted his move from Unix scripting to network engineering, where he has continued to learn by accepting all offers for advanced training, often teaching others himself, in such languages as Perl.

Church Growth Genius Tim Glende Left Behind Two Buildings in Illinois - Escaped to Appleton, Booze Brothers Buy Bar

This building on the university campus in Urbana, was not good enough for the newly ordained Tim Glende, of WELS fame. Where was the coffee bar? He ordered the synod to redevelop the congregation, sell the building, and go looking for something suitable for a Brug nephew and a Mark Jeske alumnus.

WELS sold the paid-for building to the Eastern Orthodox for a song. The Eastern Orthodox named it St. Nicholas, perhaps because the Lutherans gave them a gift ideal for campus ministry. The EO minister invited me to join their denomination instead of the WELS practice of extending the Left Foot of Fellowship and offering the stink-eye.

The attractive interior had room for an icon wall. How un-trendy and old fashioned.

But the Boy Wonder was not done yet. He had another church building to abandon.

Glende left town - not for the last time - and dug a hole by the cornfields. He and his wife needed a building as large as his ego. He cajoled the diminishing congregation into a pile of debt, but lo - Team Glende escaped to Appleton before it was built. The remaining members could not keep up, so the synod sold the building to Cornerstone Baptist and pocketed the equity for themselves.

Remember that, synod members. You can pay on a building for 20 years and have the synod grab the equity for themselves as they continue to say, "Lord, Lord, have we not done many miracles in Thy Name?"

Cornerstone rejoiced in their bargain building and enlarged it.

Glende should star in a synodical movie,
"Honey, I Shrunk the Congregation."

Ever wandering, the Booze Brothers bought a failed bar with a synod grant and loan,
after renting a movie theater and a former WELS church  building.
Ski and Glende are living allegories.

Cornerstone baptized a new member and inscribed this verse on the cake.
Is this in the Bible - I mean Murdoch's New NIV?
The fake blog from Fox Valley specifically condemned justification by faith.
Maybe WELS should return to Gausewitz
instead of disgracing a Gausewitz congregation with a Ski sermon.