Merge for Mission: "You don't serve families, you serve Christ."

(2025/03/07 UPDATE: Video has been pulled, but you can find a cached copy here .) (2025/03/21 UPDATE: Several comments have been altered to be more neutral, and the meme has been removed. The overall substance of the critique remains unchanged.) Mission Together is a program put together by WELS Congregational Services but is not listed on the WELS Congregational Services website; a reader shared this presentation and the associated Google Drive resources: a copy of a similar presentation, a document with the types of mergers, the process document. and a Bible study. Unclear to me Let's talk our way through the two-hour video presentation. Our presenter is Jon Hein the Director of WELS Congregational Services. He makes it clear that the WELS does not push mergers on congregations but is ready to assist when congregations have questions or want to consider mergers. After the pleasantries around 15 minutes in, we get to the problem statement: WELS cong...