Doing the Business of the Church
I've written many articles about the lack of action by the various Synodical officials even in the face of an outright conviction by the ASC Securities. Today Rev Clifford wrote a post in the CEF Investors Forum that - at long long last the Synod Board of Directors has done something about the people involved... Continue Reading →
You know the phrase "It's God's money, why are you mad?" that's been related from certain places with respect to the CEF/DIL losses? Would you believe it's a tactic used by abusers and their defenders to minimize what the abuser did in an effort to get the abuser off the hook? Here's a citation from... Continue Reading →
On Jan 2015 when ABC District entered CCAA protection the world as LCC's membership knew it was turned upside down. In the time since then, the ABC District Task Force, the CEF Representative Action, and now the ASC have all painted the same picture in different ways - over the course of years District had misled church members... Continue Reading →
When you sell investments to the general public, there are rules you must follow to ensure that people make informed decisions with their savings and that what they buy is what they get. When you don't follow the rules, tell them one thing when the reality is something else, and deprive people of their investments... Continue Reading →
With all the restructuring going on, each District has to ask and answer what life will look like for them after restructuring. What will it do? How will it carry out its mission? What will its relationship be with it's current churches and pastors? Will it morph into "something else" now that the task of... Continue Reading →
When times get tight for an organization one of the first orders of business is to go through the budget with a fine-tooth comb to find out what's absolutely required, what's important but can wait a bit, what can be put off 'till later, what are frills that needs to go, and sometimes "why on... Continue Reading →
I didn't write this - but I could have, and many other pastors could as well. This excerpt was taken from a post by Pastor Johannes Nieminen's on Steadfast Lutherans. Pastor Nieminen serves Zion Lutheran Church in Melville and Trinity Lutheran Church in Neudorf, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is just another normal day as yet another pastor is... Continue Reading →
As the 2017 convention amply demonstrated, LCC has some deep-rooted cultural issues with policing its ranks, particularly in cases where popular people or difficult issues are involved - in such cases it's certainly a lot easier to close one's eyes to what was going on, laugh at the ongoing stream of jokes, and go about... Continue Reading →
It's been brought to my attention that the New and Improved Handbook has an interesting change for the Commission on Adjudication (COA). I've quoted the text in full and bolded the part that should concern every member of LCC. 8.41 Jurisdiction The Commission of Adjudication shall have jurisdiction in the following: a. procedural questions involved in... Continue Reading →
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