THRIVENT “GIVING PLUS” PROGRAM –Thrivent will no longer offer the present “Giving Plus” Matching program next year. So, if you have not made use of this program in 2009, please take advantage of it ASAP. There is only “x” amount of money left this year that Thrivent will match. When it is all gone, that is the end of it.
St. Peter Cares December Newsletter
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GJ - By depending on Thrivent, the synods have not grown richer - they have impoverished themselves. Ditto Schwan funds. Rock and Roll got $20,000 from the Antioch Foundation this year (not the $200,000 they wanted) and they still only have one web page.
Unfortunately, all the Thrivent-dependent parishes have prostituted themselves, constantly advertising one particular brand of insurance to get "free" napkins, "free" pastoral calendars, and token grants. Now their little lifelines are being pulled back.
No one seems to realize that outside money displaces giving rather than adding to it.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Good News from Thrivent":
Giving Plus is already exhausted.
https://www.thrivent.com/community/outreach/giving/givingplus/index.html
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GivingPlus® Program
Note: Funds for the 2009 GivingPlus® program have been fully disbursed, resulting in more than $67 million to Lutheran organizations from Thrivent Financial and its members. The program is over for 2009, and it will not be continued in 2010. View details on the change, including information on a new giving program called Thrivent Choice to be introduced in the spring of 2010. Interested in learning more about the upcomingThrivent Choice program? Sign up for monthly email updates.
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