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by Dennis Henn
After over thirty years pastoring Protestant churches and listening to stories from fellow pastors, the author wonders how any church avoids implosion.
Visitors Welcome takes an often humorous glance at a church that over an eight year period goes through multiple splits all because God's people don't always act godlike. In the end, the church is healed by an unexpected grace.
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A 1980 graduate of Whitman College with a biology major. An MDiv from Dubuque Theological Seminary followed in 1988.
Dennis spent a total of 35 years as a pastor, twenty-one of those years as the founding pastor of Highview EPC in Wisconsin.
He has been married to Susan (Ackerman) for over 40 years. They have three children and seven grandchildren, all brilliant, beautiful, well-adjusted, and living too far away.
Dennis and Susan currently reside in West Seattle, WA where he writes and hikes with his dog and she paints, reads and plots her next trip to see grandkids.
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