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| Tim Glende - Passionate about excommunication and taking fellow Lutherans to court. |
Thank You, Lord, for Your abundant blessings!
After sharing God’s holy Word and the life and love of Jesus in the Champaign-Urbana area for over 40 years, Star of Bethlehem Lutheran Church held its final worship service for the foreseeable future on Sunday, August 10, 2014.
Campus ministry for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Eastern Illinois University, Millikin University, and the area community colleges will continue. Please contact us if you are interested in joining our campus ministry events.
Thank You, Lord, for Your abundant blessings!
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| Ski and Glende learned from Mark Driscoll - pile up the bodies. |
GJ - According to sources, Star of Bethlehem was a healthy congregation named Bethlehem Lutheran Church, on the campus of the University of Illinois.
Tim Glende forced a re-start of the congregation, sold off a beautiful location and paid-for building, and drove the "new" congregation into the dust. He left before the Savoy building was finished and landed in St. Peter, Freedom, Anything Goes District.
Savoy had the coffee bar that Glende had to have, and now an Emergent Babtist Church will make a success out of his failure to ape them adequately. The Babtists are already moving in and building a stage where the chancel was. McGavran, thou hast conquered.*
Lately he has been making sure the members of Savoy are scattered and no longer affiliated with Star of Bethlehem.
The members who joined from his single one-hour Bible Information Membership Class are long gone.
The mission board members--who gave Glende everything he wanted in Savoy and at The CORE--refused to help Savoy with any subsidy.
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| Star of Bethlehem used to be so-o-o-o big. |
*For those of you who went to WELS schools, that is a play on the words supposedly spoken by Julian the Apostate as he breathed his last, "Galilean, thou hast conquered."