Meet a delegate

Ronald Kraemer, member at St. Paul, Norfolk, Neb., was a first-time delegate at this year’s synod convention. He comments on the tasks ahead after the convention.
The funding portion is going to be a big issue. Members have to be helped to realize the great blessings and how they can do more if they really want to. The good Lord has to lead them down that path, and we have to help show them.

Our congregation so perfectly mirrors what the synod is perplexed with. . . . I have to go back and say, “Well, folks, you know that we have our debt. Synod has their debt also. We’re part of them. We have to figure out a way to take care of our [debt] as well as help them take care of theirs. . . . We have to look at our talents and treasures to see what we can do to help them.” That will be the biggest challenge of all.

I would like to encourage each member in WELS to try to see the big picture of God’s Great Commission to go out and reach and teach all nations. . . . These are very weighty things that we are discussing that involve our synod, but we dare not forget our commission, which is to evangelize.
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Volume 94, Number 10
Issue: October 2007
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