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2009-11 budget passed

After much debate, delegates passed the 2009-11 budget Thursday, a budget that provided enough funding for Ministerial Education to retain WELS' present three-tier, four-school system and to prevent further cuts in the Boards for Home and World Missions.

Instead the additional $1 million needed to balance the $30 million budget—cut from $38 million or 20 percent—will come from the following:


	Parish Services to be restructured Delegates adopted a revised resolution on Thursday afternoon to restructure the Board for Parish Services. The original resolution, submitted Wednesday, supported the Ad Hoc Commission's... Read more
	ELS president extends support Rev. John Moldstad, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), greeted the assembly on Thursday morning. "I bring greetings from all of your brothers and sisters in the Evangelical... Read more
	Daily video wrap: day four Mr. Joel Hochmuth, WELS director of communications, presents what happened on day four of the 2009 synod convention. Read more