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Dear Pastor, or, rostered Church Leader,

Our Lord says, Ps. 50.15 “Call upon Me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee.” May I request that you consider the following thoughts, as you prepare your prayers for our ELCA brethren in their hour of trial.

O Lord Who married Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, and promised them a Savior after they fell, Who delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, Who raised up Dr. Martin Luther to reform the Church, we pray that during the ELCA Assembly, You would raise up and grant grace to all, who speak up and stand as witnesses for Your Holy Word.

O Lord, Luther in the Large Cathechism, encouraged us “constantly to cry unto” You “against all who preach and believe falsely”, and use Your Name “as a cover and pretense for their devilish doctrines.”

O Lord have mercy on all Your sheep who would be led away from You by false teaching and raise up pastors after Your own heart who will protect Your flock from this evil.

O Lord we pray You would show mercy and turn those who have been deceived into proposing the Report of the Taskforce on Human Sexuality which attacks Your plan of marriage for men and women and turn them from their error to rejoin us in worshipping You rightly.

Finally, we pray for those tempted by homosexual desires, that they would not be deceived by false teaching which robs them of the forgiveness of their sins which Christ won for them on the Cross.

O Lord we pray all this in Jesus’ Name, Your Son and Our Lord

Yours in Christ,

Dan Ford

AblazeForChrist.com

Dear Pastor, or, rostered Church Leader,

The purpose of resolution 2-01 is to praise God for the “dedicated effort” of the Church bureaucrats of the NID Task Force “One Lord…” created in 2000. Their task is” to assist congregations of the NID in bring the rich resources of the Gospel to all”.

What the NID bureaucrats began in 2000 was a “fool’s errand”. They invited into our Church, ELCA leaders who mocked God, defined all whites as racist, and promoted the Gay agenda.  They spent well over a hundred thousand dollars in promoting this group as “trainers” in our District and Concordia University Chicago.

Resolution 2-01 ends with a call for “repenting of any and all failures on our part.”

Let our NID district instead, begin by repenting of our sin of hiring such false teachers and giving credence to their blasphemies.

Yours in Christ,
Dan Ford
AblazeForChrist.com

Dear Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick,

This message concerns an email sent on October 3, 2008 by the Reverend Russell L. Sommerfeld, the Nebraska District President, addressed to “Dear COP Colleagues.’’  He is responding to an email from my brother Dan Ford sent September 30, 2008.  Dan’s message concerns an event sponsored by Wheat Ridge Ministries on October 2-4, 2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin titled National Symposium on Health and Hope.

A workshop at this Symposium was presented by an organization called Crossroads Anti-Racism Organization and Training, formerly Crossroads Ministries.  As I wrote in a message to the Presidium of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod dated February 1, 2004, Crossroads is committed to the gay agenda.  The workshop was led by a female pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America who is a board member of what is now called The Lutheran Network for Inclusive Vision, an organization of leaders in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America who openly promote the ordination and marriage of active homosexuals.

President Sommerfeld stated “Please note that the workshop at the Wheat Ridge Symposium was on anti-racism not homosexuality.’’  The Crossroads website has a document describing the changes that result from their anti-racism training.  It is titled CONTINUUM ON BECOMING AN ANTI-RACIST MULTI-CULTURAL INSTITUTION (Page 72).

Here is a quote from a paragraph describing these changes.  “Expanding view of diversity includes other socially oppressed groups such as … lesbian, and gays.’’  President Sommerfeld had consulted with President Kieschnick who sent you an email stating “once again the clear biblical position of the LCMS that homosexual behavior is intrinsically sinful.’’  As the CONTINUUM document makes clear Crossroads anti-racism training causes results that are intrinsically sinful.

In a letter to the Presidium dated February 29, 2004 I wrote the following paragraph.

“The Presidium of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod should adopt a policy which directs all of its districts, congregations, pastors, recognized service organizations (RSO’s), auxiliaries, and other affiliates to cease all cooperative efforts with people who are rostered in the Network for Inclusive Vision and indeed in all open homosexual advocacy groups which are evolving in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.’’

This proposal is all the more relevant five years later.  I now remove any reference to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to include cooperation with groups such as Crossroads and address this proposal to the Council of Presidents.

The Council of Presidents of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod should adopt a policy which directs all of its districts, congregations, pastors, recognized service organizations (RSO’s), auxiliaries, and other affiliates to cease all cooperative efforts with those who openly advocate the homosexual agenda.

My brother Dan Ford will address other aspects of President Sommerfeld’s email.

Charles E. Ford, Ph.D.
Saint Louis University
Member of Timothy Lutheran Church (LCMS)
St. Louis, MO

Dear Pastor, or, rostered Church Leader,

Today the ELCA released a new 64 page study document as a part of the effort of some to change 2000 years of Church teaching about sexuality and marriage.

Wheat Ridge Ministries, an RSO, which is one of the most political protected institutions in the Missouri Synod, continues to fund the most radical gay agenda advocates. In May 7, 2007 Wheat Ridge announced that it was awarding $45,000 to the Welcoming Ministry to help the homeless in San Francisco. In August, 2007 Wheat Ridge’s newsletter introduced the Welcome Ministry’s director, the Rev. Megan Rohrer.

The October 2007 newsletter of the Lutheran Lesbian Gay Ministries (LLGM) noted that besides receiving their $15, 675 contributions, Welcoming Ministry had received “a three year grant of $45,000 from Wheat Ridge Ministries”. “Many grantors noted that four Lutheran congregations coming together to” ordain and to” call Rev. Megan Rohrer was key to awarding their grants.”

Megan Rohrer issued her own press release announcing her ordination which states that a “Consortium of San Francisco Lutheran churches” would “ordain a queer pastor on November 18″ 2006, this ordination would be “in direct conflict with the official policies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).”

“Megan explains, ‘As an extraordinary candidate for ministry, I feel that my access and privilege oblige me to speak openly about the queerness of scripture on behalf of and for the sake of my queer kin. This does not mean talking about queer things all the time, or that I minister only to and for queer people. Rather, it means that I am called to be honest not only about my own queer gender and sexuality, but also about the diverse gender and sexuality constructions in scripture, the nature of God, and in the body of Christ.’” ~ Consortium of San Francisco Lutheran Churches

“On August 27″ 2006, “Ebenezer became the first congregation to vote to call Megan.”, and is also the congregation where she was ordained. Ebenezer, which is an ELCA congregation, is also called “herchurch” and  is one of “Lutherans Concerned/North America’s Reconciling in Christ congregations.” Megan states that the “congregation is an excellent match for” her “theologically.” She is now an associate pastor at Ebenezer.

Please go to herchurch.org , read about the Goddess Rosary ceremonies, see pictures of the Goddess in the Spirituality/Gift section, see pictures in Megan’s ordination and the meet the staff segments.

Watch this 2 minute video, titled A New Beginning, posted Dec. 31, 2005, showing the worship of the Goddess at herchurch. You will recognize many of the people from their pictures in the staff segment. Most of you would never dream of worshiping the pagan idol shown, or using the names they use in their worship. The saddest part of this video is watching a sweet young girl being taught to pray to the Goddess.

Please view Megan Rohrer’s 27 page ordination bulletin. ~ November 18, 2006

• Page 1, God(dess), there are more than 40 references like this in the service.
• Communion: “All are welcome to receive Holy Communion.”
• There will be three communion stations, one with wheat free host and grape juice.
• Stole: There is greater attention to the Stole being worn then to Communion.
• Liturgical Dance: There is a picture of Judith on herchurch.org under staff.
• Page 14: Note: The God(dess) does not have a kingdom- -it is a “kin-dom.”
• Page 18: In the Lord’s Prayer Megan corrects Jesus who taught us to call upon our Father in heaven. She now is calling on “Father(Mother)” and since Mother doesn’t have a kingdom, God can now only have a “kin-dom”.
• Page 27: A very interesting biography of Megan.

I was confirmed into the Christian faith, on Palm Sunday, 50 years ago this year. I am deeply thankful for the careful instruction in the Small Catechism I received then. I pray that there are many Pastors and teachers who still love God’s people and are still teaching the faith taught in our Small Catechism.

I’ll write more after we celebrate Easter.

If any of you don’t agree with me simply send me a note saying you do not wish to receive any more emails.

Dan Ford

Laymen St. John’s Lutheran Church, Wheaton Illinois

Wheatridge Ministries, during 2004-2005, awarded three grants totaling $115,000 to ELCA Institutions publicly committed to the Homosexual Agenda.The grant awarded in May, 2004, to Central City Lutheran Mission, resulted in that congregation being expelled from the ELCA in December, 2004. That’s undoubtedly a new First for Wheatridge Ministries and the LCMS 1^st Vice-President, William Diekelman, who served as Chairperson of its Board of Directors.

July 11, 2007

Dear Delegates,

In February , 2004, my brother, Professor Charles Ford wrote a study and a short letter to the LCMS Presidium concerning how LCMS RSO’s like Wheatridge Ministries, have spent over $100,000 to fund training projects of Crossroads Ministry, an institution lead by ELCA homosexual agenda advocates. Rev. Charles Mueller Jr. was a member of the Northern Illinois District Board of Directors which voted to authorize a project.

The founder, and then director of Crossroads Ministry, Rev. Joseph Barndt, mocks God’s great act of liberating Israel from Egypt, accuses all Whites in America of benefiting from racism , promotes the homosexual Agenda, and is a member of the Network for Inclusive Vision

Charles’ letter concluded that “the Presidium of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod should adopt a policy which directs all of its districts, congregations, pastors, recognized service organizations (RSOs), auxiliaries, and other affiliates to cease all cooperatives efforts with people are rostered in the Network for Inclusive Vision and, indeed, in all open homosexual advocacy groups which are evolving in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.”

This good advice was totally ignored; let’s look at the result.

On May 10, 2004, Wheatridge Ministries announced that it had awarded $35,000 for the Community Health Accountability Project at Central City Lutheran Mission. This funded a “liaison” for the CCLM Wellness Center, Rev. Jenny Mason, a lesbian who had a “partner” and had been removed from the ELCA’s clergy roster in 2001. Within 6 months, the ELCA removed CCLM from its roster.

In May, 2005, Wheatridge Ministries announced a $40,000 grant to Bridge of Peace Community Church an ELCA Church in Camden NJ, which has the gay agenda on its web site and is on the roster of “Gay Friendly Churches in New Jersey.”

Another $40,000 Wheatridge grant went to Lutheran Church of the Cross, in Berkeley, Ca. which has links to two Homosexual advocacy groups on its web site. The Lutheran Volunteer Corp and East Bay Lutheran Parish, a project of the Lutheran Lesbian and Gay movement (LLGM).

No prior 1^st Vice President of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has conducted his office in this way.

It may be accurate to describe Rev. William Diekelman as “ablaze”, but what is he ablaze for?

Note: Please forward this email to your circuit’s lay delegate. THANK YOU

Dan Ford

Lay member
St John’s Lutheran Church
Wheaton IL