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| Kudu Don Patterson friended Tim Glende on Facebook. Ski soon became a neighbor to Patterson. |
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| Patterson wore the outfit, so I added the movie poster. |
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| Patterson staff speaks to youth: "Never grow up!" |
National WEL$ Conference on Leadership
Kudu Don (his email name) and his wife Mary will be speakers at this 2023 conference. He and Paul Calvin Kelm were asked to give papers to the Mordor seminary on how to improve it - and the school went downhill even faster. Doubtless his wife will not be able to make things much worse. Her ladies conferences are legendary in Texas.
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| Patterson has promoted more non-Lutheran religious salesmen than any other in WELS, unless we count Kelm and Valleskey. |
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| Patterson is not Church and Changer, though he spoke there and went to the "final" conference. Mark Jeske just moved it up a notch and began including ELCA lady pastors. |
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| Hooray for Holy Word! Too bad Patterson rejects the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace. |
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| Wherever there is a tacky celebrity, Ski and Glende are there. They employ the same failed gimmicks. Patterson just gets more direct funding from Holy Mother WELS. |
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| Patterson and others have publicly howled over my attempts at Photoshop, humor, and Luther's Biblical doctrine. Kudu Don stole my graphic, above, and put it in his own FB folder! He and other WELS leaders like to whisper via their precious "WELS grapevine." They think theirs is a clever way to slander anonymously, slam down the shun button, and protect their felons. |
Henry Town said...You wrote, Matthias: "Nobody actually has any idea what GIA is. The experts' best guess is that it's some sort of mish-mash of various Church Growth entities."
Some "experts" I have spoken with tell me that the entities of GIA are becoming more and more accepted and powerful within the WELS. Consider that Pastor Don Patterson is very visible on the GIA website and now he is in his first term as the District President of the South Central District.
I've even been told that one entity of GIA, Crosstrain Coaching, had a prominent role in returning Pastor Ski to ministry in a WELS congregation.
The GIA website may show some neglect, but the people associated with it are not neglecting any opportunity to grow in influence within the WELS. If for no other reason, their free reign at this conference ought not be ignored by others in the synod.
Some "experts" I have spoken with tell me that the entities of GIA are becoming more and more accepted and powerful within the WELS. Consider that Pastor Don Patterson is very visible on the GIA website and now he is in his first term as the District President of the South Central District.
I've even been told that one entity of GIA, Crosstrain Coaching, had a prominent role in returning Pastor Ski to ministry in a WELS congregation.
The GIA website may show some neglect, but the people associated with it are not neglecting any opportunity to grow in influence within the WELS. If for no other reason, their free reign at this conference ought not be ignored by others in the synod.
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| Matthias Flach said... Yes, Henry Town, I can confirm that Crosstrain Coaching "helped" Ski with his "personal issues". He was then rushed to CRM status to accept a call into Patterson's district. Quite a coincidence, no? So if I understand correctly... Patterson's "business" took Ski on as a paying "client"... and then Patterson almost immediately put Ski on a call list in his district?! Gosh, that stinks to high heaven. *** GJ - That's nothin' folks. Wisconsin Child and Family Services treated Joel Hochmuth for his addiction to child porn (young boys). Joel still worked at WELS headquarters, where his stash was found by the FBI. Mark Schroeder immediately spoke up for Joel and pronounced him absolved of all sin. Joel got an incredibly expensive lawyer, a very light sentence, and began offending again. |
Note that Patterson is famous for gathering a bunch of WELS workers and taking them to the Exponential pan-demon conference in Orlando, Florida. One thing you will never find there - a Lutheran speaker. No, the Lutherans sit in the audience, salivating about how they can employ those same lures, sugar-coating the Gospel while beating the snot out of their flocks.
Patterson is not--and I repeat--not a Church and Change leader, unless that is another GA lie. He has spoken there and he went to the last conference in the Milwaukee area. But he denies being a Changer and I believe that he denies it.
Patterson did hire Cornerstone for fleecing the sheep. Ron Roth, paleo-Shrinker, was head of that business before they buried him. Cornerstone never divulges their conflict of interest. They have their synod rain-makers always recommending that Cornerstone be used, and it is a dual LCMS-WELS "ministry," like Mark and Avoid Jeske's.
Patterson's conference or district had an entire meeting on the joys of UOJ. The papers were sloppy, moronic, and utterly devoid of exegesis.
Remember this, when WELS leaders tell you to write a letter or sit down and speak with them, they are cobras inviting the mouse for a meeting.
Patterson is not--and I repeat--not a Church and Change leader, unless that is another GA lie. He has spoken there and he went to the last conference in the Milwaukee area. But he denies being a Changer and I believe that he denies it.
Patterson did hire Cornerstone for fleecing the sheep. Ron Roth, paleo-Shrinker, was head of that business before they buried him. Cornerstone never divulges their conflict of interest. They have their synod rain-makers always recommending that Cornerstone be used, and it is a dual LCMS-WELS "ministry," like Mark and Avoid Jeske's.
Patterson's conference or district had an entire meeting on the joys of UOJ. The papers were sloppy, moronic, and utterly devoid of exegesis.
Remember this, when WELS leaders tell you to write a letter or sit down and speak with them, they are cobras inviting the mouse for a meeting.
