WELS news briefs
WELS news briefs
Commission on Youth Discipleship
414-256-3274; cyd@sab.wels.net
A three-year grant from a WELS familyis allowing Youth Discipleship to continue producing Kids Connection, a kid-friendly video news magazine that features interesting and spiritually uplifting stories about people, places, and programs around WELS. “Kids Connection shows how living for Jesus and sharing him with others is what we are called to do and also something that brings great temporal and eternal blessing,” says Dr. Joel Nelson, administrator for Youth Discipleship. About 350 congregations subscribe, generating half the revenue needed to fund the ministry.
Learn more about Kids Connection at www.kidsconnection.tv.
WELS Foundation
414-256-3249; jim.holm@sab.wels.net
Mr. Jim Holm, former president of WELS Investment Funds, Inc. (WIF), is now the first executive director of the WELS Foundation. Holm will provide strategic leadership and direction for the foundation as well as oversee day-to-day operations. The WELS Foundation manages gifts for donors who want to support the work of the synod, congregations, and other WELS ministries. The executive director position is funded through the WELS Foundation and reports to Pastor David Liggett, president of WELS Foundation and director of the Ministry of Christian Giving. Learn more about WELS Foundation at archive.wels.net/foundation.
414-256-3274; cyd@sab.wels.net
A three-year grant from a WELS familyis allowing Youth Discipleship to continue producing Kids Connection, a kid-friendly video news magazine that features interesting and spiritually uplifting stories about people, places, and programs around WELS. “Kids Connection shows how living for Jesus and sharing him with others is what we are called to do and also something that brings great temporal and eternal blessing,” says Dr. Joel Nelson, administrator for Youth Discipleship. About 350 congregations subscribe, generating half the revenue needed to fund the ministry.
Learn more about Kids Connection at www.kidsconnection.tv.
WELS Foundation
414-256-3249; jim.holm@sab.wels.net
Mr. Jim Holm, former president of WELS Investment Funds, Inc. (WIF), is now the first executive director of the WELS Foundation. Holm will provide strategic leadership and direction for the foundation as well as oversee day-to-day operations. The WELS Foundation manages gifts for donors who want to support the work of the synod, congregations, and other WELS ministries. The executive director position is funded through the WELS Foundation and reports to Pastor David Liggett, president of WELS Foundation and director of the Ministry of Christian Giving. Learn more about WELS Foundation at archive.wels.net/foundation.
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