WELS Through August.
WELS is up over 2006 by $444,049 at $12,493,206.
Michigan District is down $73,679 at $1,208,772.
The Michigan District has trailed last year's contributions every month through August, except perhaps for January.
The State of Michigan is in a budgetary crisis. The Wall Street Journal ran an article on the vast shrinkage of GM jobs since 1994. Ditto Ford. The State of Michigan is a subsidiary of the auto business. One pastor said years ago, "If the auto is business is doing well, the congregational budget does well. If not, there is not much we can do."
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Michigan District - Giving Not Up
