Combating Urban Myths - Mission and Ministry
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This document summarizes a presentation given to church leaders about combating myths regarding urban schools. It discusses Atonement Lutheran School, which serves 300 predominantly low-income and African American students in Milwaukee. It notes challenges in Milwaukee like high rates of poverty and unemployment. It then discusses common myths about urban schools compromising beliefs or being unable to properly serve struggling students. The presentation poses defining questions to examine assumptions about student worthiness based on academic achievement, behavior, membership status, or pedigree. It advocates that Christian education should be for all who want it and accept its ground rules. The document concludes by listing the top performing schools in Milwaukee, which are religious and include Atonement Lutheran School.
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- 1. Presented By What every church leader should know Combating Urban Myths Shaun Luehring, Principal
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- 3. Atonement - Milwaukee Founded as outreach to birth a church in 1929 and entered the MPCP in 2001. 300 Students (scholars) About 37 FTE staff ¼ of the student body are members of Atonement Lutheran Church. Plan to grow our campus to serve 626 scholars. 92% African American 84% are below the poverty line 3
- 4. Background - MKE Milwaukee is a mess spiritually, socially, and educationally. ½ of MKE don’t regularly worship any god (God). MKE is rated the worst place to grow up for African Americans. 50% unemployment rate 50% graduation rate from high school Highest national incarceration rate of African Americans 4
- 5. Convictions . . . Assumptions Schools: Excellence spiritually and academically Our work is a matter of life and death. All children are capable and redeemed. Our enemy is powerful and active. God’s Grace through the GOSPEL is the answer. (2 Peter 3) 5
- 6. Urban Myths 6 Spiritual: ► Less WELS -- Compromise beliefs -- Not Lutheran ► Unruly, impossible children - they don’t care ► Too Academically Focused ► Take the parent’s job ► We accept money from… Educational: ► Exhausting, unrealistic goals/expectations for teachers – less autonomy ► Stifling structure/procedures ► We coddle children and take over the parent’s job ► Too much testing/data ► what else?
- 8. Is it the academic achievement (or developmental level) that makes them worthy or unworthy? 1) Those with ‘special’ needs – Better served elsewhere? 2) Those expelled for low academic performance? 8
- 9. Is it behavior that makes you worthy or unworthy? 1) Which sins aren’t tolerated? 2) Most egregious? What are they theologically? 3) Will they dangerously spread? 4) Is it for repeated behaviors? 5) Lack of repentance? For how long? 9
- 10. Is it membership? 1) We don’t require that of the BIC? Why not? 1) Is our model of “for our own” still relevant, Biblical? 10
- 11. Is it your pedigree? 1) What’s your last name? 1) Is it German? 11
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- 13. What it is just Agreement? 1) How would things look differently if we agreed that CE was for everyone? 2) What if we just kept serving people for as long as they wanted us to? 3) What if they accepted the ground rules? 13
- 14. Is this our Synod’s “Jonah moment?” 14
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- 16. Top 8 80/80 Schools in MKE #1 Franklin School (MPS) #2 Atonement Lutheran School (WELS) #3 St. Marcus Lutheran School (WELS) #4 Holmes Elementary School (MPS) #5 Cass Street School (MPS) #6 Siloah Lutheran School (WELS) #7 Garden Homes Lutheran School (WELS) #8 Northwest Lutheran School (LCMS)
- 18. Your Turn – Questions?
- 19. Timothy Keller
- 20. Selected verses of Psalm 83
- 21. 2 Peter 3:9 – God’s ‘kindness’
- 22. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- 23. Micah 6:8
Editor's Notes
- Stories which take on a form of their own – terrifying endings.
- So . . . Why this “great city?”
- Me:
- What does the public school say? – “we are for all”
- So, who is worthy?
- So, who is worthy?
- The backyard of the WELS.
- 600 students before choice Over 2000 now and growing.
- What if we used the Law only insofar as it helped make clear the Gospel – no more, no less?
- What if we used the Law only insofar as it helped make clear the Gospel – no more, no less?
- What if we used the Law only insofar as it helped make clear the Gospel – no more, no less?
- What if we used the Law only insofar as it helped make clear the Gospel – no more, no less?
- What if we used the Law only insofar as it helped make clear the Gospel – no more, no less?
- What if we used the Law only insofar as it helped make clear the Gospel – no more, no less?
- What if we used the Law only insofar as it helped make clear the Gospel – no more, no less?