This obvious PhotoShop illustrates how WELS members are hoodwinked into buying Thrivent so their money can go to the Salvation Army, a heretical church!
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Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation Match Day rings in $374,329.81 for Salvation Army-Fox Cities
The total announced Wednesday will be matched with a donation from the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation, which pledged to match dollar for dollar — up to $125,000 — all donations made to the Salvation Army-Fox Cities this past Friday.
The grand total for the Match Day was $374,329.81, Thrivent and the Salvation Army said in a joint statement Wednesday. The amount collected Friday was the second highest one-day collection for the Salvation Army, which last year set a national mark for a one-day collection, netting $497,423.
While last year's Match Day record wasn't broken, organizers still were grateful.
"When I saw the total, I was amazed. The spirit of the community is just extraordinary," said Robb Waugus, director of communications and financial development for the Salvation Army-Fox Cities. "It ended up being the second highest total collected since we started doing the match with Thrivent."
Jon Stellmacher, senior vice president and chief of staff and administration at Thrivent, thanked employees.
"Thank you to our employees and to all the community members who rang the bells on Friday, helping ensure that shoppers were in a giving holiday spirit," he said.
This was the sixth year the Thrivent foundation sponsored the challenge for the Salvation Army-Fox Cities. Thrivent match days have generated $1,280,460 the past six years.
"Last year, the Fox Cities broke a national record for single-day giving for The Salvation
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3 comments:
The Salvation Army set the pace for churches which want an aggressive program, as long as someone else pays for it.
Evidently Thrivent thinks that all Lutheran benevolences are so well funded that they can divert "Lutheran" funds to a heterodox church's (The Salvation Army's) benevolences.
Lutheran scholarships be hanged. Lutheran benevolences be hanged. Lutherans be hanged. Thrivent much prefers Habitat for Humanity and the Salvation Army to Lutherans.
The only thing Lutheran about Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the name and the money source. It is time for conservative Lutherans to bail out of Thrivent.
Yes, I do put my money where my mouth is. I have removed all investments from Thrivent and cancelled my Lutheran insurance. I received better financial deals on both elsewhere. So it is a blessing on all fronts to dump Thrivent.
Hopefully, the Salvation Army will teach WELS how to get off its butt and do something.
You know, the merger of WELS and the Salvation Army would benefit both.
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