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| Jon-Boy Buchholz sent that email to me when he wanted good PR. |
“There were not enough candidates from MLC and WLS to meet all of the call requests. Following assignment day at MLC, there were still some 45 teacher calls that remained unfilled, due to a lack of suitable candidates available. The Lord blessed our district with eight teacher candidates of the 11 requested, and all four of our pastor candidate requests were filled. There were numerous other pastoral calls around the synod that went unfilled. This is the smallest seminary graduating class in recent memory (23 men). This year’s small seminary class and thecontinuing need for teacher candidates underscore the need to encourage young men and women to study for the preaching and teaching ministry. Remember that this year's eighth-grade confirmands will not graduate from Martin Luther College as teachers until 2022, and those who pursue pastoral ministerial training will not graduate from seminary until 2026. It’s a long pipeline, even as the need for workers presents itself now!”
Uh, no. What a complete bushel basket of blather. Let’s get this right out on the table: there is no real need for called workers. This is the great myth that is constantly perpetuated. How can there be such disconnect between the synod’s needs and the synod’s worker training college? Maybe congregations aren’t looking for ECE graduates en masse and would rather get a teacher that could focus on fifth graders instead. Maybe having a staff minister would be a horrible idea because the program is only good in theory and not in practice so instead a congregation would rather just call another pastor. This district report even proves there is no need. The AZ/CA district had 3 churches leave, 10 teaching positions were eliminated, and two schools were closed. Why train more called workers to go to schools that are closing and churches that are leaving? Seems rather pointless, doesn’t it? Apparently the DPs are not reading their own reports. Perhaps this is where that disconnect happens.
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| The Changers used "Growth" to introduce their apostasy, but their agenda was never growth - except growth in money and power for themselves. Ask the Founders of Church and Change - John Lawrenz, Steve Witte, John Johnson, John Parlow, and Old Scratch. |