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Schwan brothers wants answers on why father’s foundation has lost millions

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By Barry Amundson on Apr 25, 2016 at 6:50 p.m.

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PIERRE, S.D. -- South Dakota’s Supreme Court will hear a case today over a dispute between the Marvin Schwan religious charitable foundation and the giant food company founder’s two sons who are questioning millions of dollars in losses since its founding in 1992.

The hearing is set for 10 a.m. before the justices.

Marvin Schwan, who set up the foundation a year before he died at age 64, called for the organization to provide funding to mostly Lutheran church organizations.

He founded the Schwan’s business in 1952 and it grew into a multibillion company known for its home delivery to rural residents. The company, based in Marshall in southwest Minnesota, now operates in 14 states and has 14,000 employees.

The case brought by Marvin’s sons, Mark and Paul, ask that the foundation’s trustees disclose more information on why it has lost as much as $600 million since its founding.

According to the online Nonprofit Quarterly, a review of the foundation’s tax filings show a “baffling mix of conflicts of interest, overseas real estate investments in resort properties by the foundation and the use of a trustee succession committee designed to review the performance of the trustees on which the two sons serve.”

However, apparently the two sons on the review committee can’t seem to get any answers about the heavy losses.

So the Schwan brothers want want to compel the trustees release more details.

The Nonprofit Quarterly online website said that in 2002 the Schwan Foundation held $886 million in assets and gave $44 million in grants. A report online shows that by 2012, assets dropped to $445 million and grants totaled $14 million.

In 2011 alone, the foundation’s assets dropped by more than $240 million in that single year, said the Nonprofit Quarterly, which added that about a third of the foundation’s assets are invested directly in various real estate projects in the Caribbean and through offshore corporations, including in the British Virgin Islands.

Calls to the foundation, headed by the Rev. Keith Boheim of Earth City, Mo., were not returned. Also not returned were calls to the Schwan brothers’ lawyer.

Others listed on the Supreme Court docket to speak today are lawyers for beneficiaries of the foundation’s funds including Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minn., Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and Wels Kingdom Workers mission outreach in Wauwatosa, Wis.

Most of the lawyers representing those beneficiaries, the  Schwans and the foundation trustees are from Sioux Falls.

Also participating in the hearing is the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

Attorney General Marty Jackley, who said in an interview that  he couldn’t comment on the case because court documents have been sealed, noted that the reason they are involved is because South Dakota law calls for the attorney general to protect beneficiaries of charitable trusts that aid communities in the state.

“That’s why we are stepping in,” he said.

Jackley appointed “two seasoned prosecutors” to handle the case, assistant attorney generals Jeffrey Hallem and Philip Carlson.

The Forbidden Verses - UOJ Stormtroopers Cannot Stand What the Word Teaches

Romans 3:21-22 KJV
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

Galatians 2:16 KJV
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

The modern translations have "faith in Jesus," but that is not the construction in NT Greek, a language barely known among the UOJ clergy. The actual words are "faith of Jesus," which means the faith belonging to Jesus.

The difference is significant. I may have faith in a bridge, to cross it, or faith in a bank, to put money in it. But in both cases the object does not have faith. The bridge has no faith. The bank has no faith.

But Jesus has faith, as these verses clearly teach. This is a devastating blow to the UOJ Stormtroopers, who hate "faith" the way Bernie Sanders hates free enterprise, the way nature abhors a vacuum, the way a vacuous argument abhors the Word.

This phrasing is doubly important because "faith in Jesus" can be interpreted as emphasizing the individual rather than Jesus. Moreover, both instances of "the faith of Jesus" occur in the all-important Pauline discussion of justification by faith.

The accurate translation also clarifies the meaning of "from faith to faith" in Romans.

Romans 1 KJV

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

I would paraphrase verse 17 as "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed, from the faith of Jesus to our faith, as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

The UOJ arguments are cerebral but dumb, clearly violating Luther's admonitions against Enthusiasm - separating the Holy Spirit from the Word. No one can tell me when the imaginary world absolution took place - at the death of Jesus, at His resurrection, or during the angelic blessing "Peace on earth, good will to men." 

Can you picture the UOJ Stormtroopers dividing into rival factions - the Angelic UOJists versus the Atonement UOJists versus the Empty Grave UOJists? I can. Sig Becker thought it worthwhile to differentiate various flavors of UOJ, although the interpreters of this Delphic Oracle from Mequon shed no light on the topic, except to reverence his blessed attempt at clarity.

But, struggling to get back to the main point, this phase "the faith of Jesus" has an interesting and worthwhile perspective - teaching the humanity of Christ. In this Age of Apostasy, the mainline denominations teach against the divinity of Christ and the circus clowns of Church Growth add to that impression with their "buddy Jesus" graphics and emphasis on cola and snacks.

So there is some reactionary danger in believers downplaying the human nature in Christ. The entire narrative of the Passion is one where the human nature in Christ is almost all we see - the submission to Roman and Jewish authorities, the beating and spitting and mocking, the scourging and crucifixion, the fainting and crying out "My God, My God, why have You abandoned Me?" In Christology we speak of the two natures in Christ, so does it not make sense that Jesus exemplified faith in all His work and Word?