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In Sunday's (!) ELCA News Service release ELCA Council Recommends Budget Proposals Through 2013, we finally find this in the 16th (of 18) paragraph:
At its meeting April 9-10, the council recommended the assembly adopt a current
fund spending proposal of $61.8 million for 2012, along with an $18.5 million income
proposal for ELCA World Hunger. Additionally, for 2013, it recommended the assembly
adopt a current fund income proposal of $61.9 million and an $18.5 million ELCA
World Hunger income proposal.
The budget approved by the 2009 CWA for 2010 was $76.69 million, with 2011's at $76.78 -- both of which were reduced to $69 million by the ELCA Church Council a few months later.
The 1990 ELCA budget was $102.5 million. According to the CPI calulator of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, it would take a bit over $173 million to purchase the same goods and services in 2011.
PAx, Steven+
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GJ - Don't believe for a second that ELCA spends that much on world hunger. The money is siphoned off to support lobbyists in Washington DC, all the states, and Canada. The best buddy of WELS and Missouri lobbies for abortion and evolution with world hunger money - not that there is anything wrong with that.
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According to this story, a quarter of the money the ELCA brings in goes toward world hunger. If the laity wants to support the church, apparently they can never give enough since a quarter (or maybe half if all the charity projects are included) of the money goes toward non-church budget items.
I'd say that the ELCA/LCMS/WELS/ELS ought to just recommend charities for that work rather than siphoning off church funds from the operating budget for other causes whether the laymen/donors want it to go there or not. The way it is now, it reminds one of embezzlement, which is still a crime whether the money goes toward good or greedy purposes, since the money goes toward projects that the laity didn't earmark the money for when they gave it.
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