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| Orans posture in ELDONA, a bit off. |
- The COP was informed that a task force to address the called worker shortage will be appointed in the coming weeks, as directed by the synod convention. The task force will craft recommendations for a synodwide effort to increase the number of candidates for the public ministry.
- The COP approved a proposal to extend and encourage WELS teaching ministry certification for all early childhood teachers, whether called or hired. The COP also approved a proposal that makes a distinction between synodwide early childhood teacher certification (meaning that such certified teachers are able to be called anywhere) and local teacher certification, which certifies early childhood teachers for service in their own local congregation only.
- The COP is asking the Synodical Council’s Compensation Review Committee to propose an appropriate manner of compensating directors and teachers for increased time commitments and responsibilities involved in early childhood education.
- The Early Childhood Ministry Support Task Force is producing a document as a resource for early childhood education (ECE) leaders, boards, district coordinators, and district presidents to build awareness and give strategies on how to efficiently operate an ECE program while meeting the needs of ECE staff, parents, and children.
WELS has entered the majority grandparent stage, so a tide of seminary candidates is more of an ebb tide, the golden sun sinking in the West, oversized dorms for undersized classes. The ELS proved that when they started a parish in Bowling Green and saw everyone exit to the pearly gates.
The Diaper Changing Academies are the barns built in the hope of more kids, even though the other mainline declining congregations are doing the same thing.
Meanwhile, WELS has a number of former pastors in non-pastoral positions. The sect, run by GA Hazing graduates related to each other, is low on production and not likely to improve. They are especially enchanted by two deadly poisons:
1. Objective Faithless Justification is so obnoxious that they needed a new NIV to support the fantasy of everyone in the world being born forgiven and saved. The older NIV did not even attempt to claim OJ in Romans 3, but the newest version is defiantly Universalist. (Defiantly is WELS for definitely - not too good at spelling, either.) Justification by Faith makes them foam in the mouth.
2. The WELS pastors, in or out of the ministry, are so absorbed in their precious UOJ that they have no faith. They cannot teach or preach faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, miracle worker and Teacher, healing lepers and raising the dead, suffering on the cross for the sins of the world, rising from the grave and ascending to Heaven.
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