Thrivent and the Big Three at Work - ELCA, LCMS, and WELS

 

Time To Slow Down the Synodical Gravy Train

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Anyone denying this satirical graphic should study the books of their own sect, the harmony of the three synods, and the Thrivent financial blend. Note - they "give away" little communion kits for the newly ordained, hilarious in light of their lavish self-giving.

Before they had a chance to generate a solid cover-up, Matt the Fatt and Liz Eaton were jumping up to deny the amount of gubmint funds being shoveled into their sects. Thrivent also enjoys cozying up its funds to gain easy, non-profit (pause to laugh a few minutes) funds for their insurance sales and beloved charitable annuities. Thrivent acts as one with their sects but also poses as benefactors individually to each synod. The sales agents used to demand photo albums from the pastors so they could call on every member of the congregation. The Lutheran identity (already a farce) is watered down since Thrivent is no longer "lodge insurance" like the Masons, Shriners, and other goldmines (maybe tin mines).

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The people who do the least amount of work and spend the most on themselves, also demand more from their underlings. 

There Goes the Lutheran and Papist US.AID Honeypot!

 

BREAKING: State Department officially notifies Congress of USAID closure

The State Department has officially notified Congress that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been dissolved, and the remaining operations of the agency will be run by the State Department itself.

According to United Press International, the State Department officially told Congress that USAID was dissolving on Friday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, "Today, the Department of State and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have notified Congress on their intent to undertake a reorganization that would involve realigning certain USAID functions to the Department by July 1, 2025, and discontinuing the remaining USAID functions that do not align with Administration priorities."

Rubio also noted, "Thanks to President Trump, this misguided and fiscally irresponsible era is now over. We are reorienting our foreign assistance programs to align directly with what is best for the United States and our citizens. We are continuing essential lifesaving programs and making strategic investments that strengthen our partners and our own country. This is yet another promise made and delivered to the American people."

USAID was a particular target of spending cuts and efforts from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after the Trump administration came into office. In a memo that was distributed to USAID employees, the State Department wrote that it "will seek to retire USAID's independent operation" and then see if those employees that were let go will need to be rehired.

"This transfer will significantly enhance efficiency, accountability, uniformity, and strategic impact in delivering foreign assistance programs -- allowing our nation and President to speak with one voice in foreign affairs," the memo added, per ABC News. "It will also obviate the need for USAID to continue operating as an independent establishment."

"All non-statutory positions at USAID will be eliminated," as part of the agency getting dissolved, the memo added.

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Thrivent-USAID Flow Chart for Lutheran (sic) Denominations

 

Archbishop Elizabeth Eaton was voted into the ELCA Office in 2013, by virtue of her superior money and membership, though both going down the drain...fast. She earned an MDiv at Harvard Divinity School.

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Matt Harrison is the Bishop of the four Watherian Sects - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - earning a coveted MDiv that alarmed and scattered the sheep. He has been gaining weight since 2010.

Randy DeJaynes, ELCA pastor, got Jim Heiser going as the next bishop, though the title was hidden away for a long time. Heiser prayed with Kincaid Smith and Jay Webber to be in fellowship with ELDONA, a merger that lasted several minutes.

Heiser spends big money on himself for world travels. He went to Europe several times and got nowhere, which is apparently his mission in the Philippines. 

The Big Five Apostates - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - look up to Liz Eaton, her Harvard gay credentials, her hold on the Thrivent purse-strings and the USAID loot.

The cheap masks should match for the angel (orans) pose, if one wants to be distinctly Roman Catholic, not poking out the strained belly button.

The Bishop Rohrer jeremiad managed to tangle all the left-wing issues.

The ELCiC Bishop in Canada, Susan Johnson, has had many styles, eh?

USAID -Thrivent ELCA LCMS WELS

 

"These funds support programs and services of church bodies—Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) and Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)—and their ministries. You can collaborate with Thrivent Charitable and other donors to make the change that matters most to you."

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"There are many reputable organizations to benefit in times of disasters—and each situation requires a unique response depending on the community. It’s best practice to benefit those organizations that are on the ground and have existing relationships to respond most effectively. The following resources have detailed information on specific crises, suggested responses and pre-vetted charitable organizations to consider benefiting by disaster/critical issue area.

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Surely Thrivent Has Never Dabbled in NGO Charities?!After All, It Is Their Money - And Thrivent Be Not Lutheran

• Lee Zeldin discovers $20 Billion EPA slush fund for climate grifting — Throwing gold bars off the Titanic.
• How Wash Post is covering the story.
• It all started with this O’keefe undercover EPA video.

Oh My! Is that Jeske looking for another big, fat check?

Biden immigration crisis was a boon for Catholic Charities, which raked in billions in grant money

The local charities received a substantial influx of taxpayer cash to provide services to immigrants, including shelter, food and travel. 

"President Joe Biden’s border policies were a boon for private religious charities associated with the Catholic Church, which collectively received billions in grant money while helping house and resettle migrants, while a federal watchdog warned about mismanaged funds and a potential for fraud." 

Not Just Thrivent Insurance - Catholics Funneling Tax Dollars to Illegal Immigration

 

“It’s Beyond Outrageous,” Fort Worth Catholic Organization Accused of Funneling Hundreds of Millions of Tax Dollars to Incentivize Illegal Immigration

January 30, 2025 TagsCatholic Charities, Illegal Immigration from Katy Christian Magazine by Staff

PJ Media Exposes Bishop Budde and Many Other Left-Wing NGOs.ELCA, LCMS, and WELS Are Deep into NGOs Too!

 

When Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde lectured President Trump and Vice President Vance about immigration during her sermon at the National Prayer Service on the day after they were inaugurated, leftists hailed Budde for standing on principle and giving the Bad Orange Man a good scolding. As it turns out, however, Budde may have motivations that were a bit more tangible than principle: her Church’s Episcopal Migration Ministry (EMM) rakes in millions from a number of taxpayer-funded entities for bringing the migrants. And the Episcopal Church is by no means alone in this: other Churches that have recently taken principled stance against Trump’s immigration policies are in on the gravy train as well. 

The Churches That Oppose Trump on Immigration are Raking in Millions to Bring In Migrants

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The New York Post reported Friday that Budde’s “sermon to President Trump during an inaugural prayer service, coupled with her church’s advocacy for humanitarian immigration programs, reveals a striking hypocrisy — one that could be seen as self-serving and even a conflict of interest.” This is because in 2023, EMM “earned $53 million from various taxpayer-funded government programs to resettle 3,600 individuals.” If Trump stops the migrant influx and ends the funding for such programs, the Episcopal Church could suddenly be facing a significant shortfall of cash. 

And so Budde appealed to Trump to have mercy upon those who “fear for their lives” – what? From whom? In a magnificent display of elitism, she exhorted him to be kind to “the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals.” She said nothing, of course, about the small matter of that $53 million. 

Nor did she mention another salient fact. According to the Post, EMM “‘sponsored’ 6,400 individuals from 48 countries in 2024. The leading nationalities were Afghans under a special humanitarian program.”

Wait a minute. Afghans? Certainly there are many people who fled Afghanistan because the Taliban would kill them if they got the chance, but did EMM take any time to consider the fact that besides the Taliban, Afghanistan is a key center of operations for al-Qaeda and ISIS? There are certainly Afghans who aren’t members of any jihad terror group, but they didn’t exist in sufficient numbers to prevent the Taliban from returning to power, or to keep al-Qaeda and ISIS from acting in that country with complete impunity. So what measures did EMM take to vet these Afghans and make sure they weren’t bringing in any jihadis? Likely they did nothing about this, for to have made any such effort would have been “Islamophobic.” 

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The Episcopal Church isn’t alone in this hypocrisy. The Post notes that “the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) dwarfs EMM. Forbes reported that USCCB affiliate Catholic Charities USA, which has its hand in all aspects of immigration and seems to get money from every government agency except NASA, received $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars in 2021. That’s 68 times more than EMM got that year.”

Back in April 2021, Business Insider reported that “the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services is one of nine nonprofit organizations that partner with the US government to meet the needs of refugees who arrive in the country. Those seeking protection from war and repression deserve compassion and assistance, it teaches, citing the ‘mercy of Christ, who himself was a [sic] immigrant and child of refugees.’”

That compassion comes at a price. OSV News reported Friday that “audited financial statements by an outside firm show that the USCCB received about $122.6 million in 2022 and about $129.6 million in 2023 in funding from government agencies for refugee-related services. But the same statements show that the USCCB spent more on those services than the government gave them, meaning the conference did not profit from the grants, according to the conference’s auditors. In 2023, for example, the conference spent $134.2 million for such services.”

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And so when the USCCB condemned Trump’s executive orders on immigration, did it have a pecuniary interest in doing so? Vice President Vance, who is a Roman Catholic, thinks so, saying: “I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line? We’re going to enforce immigration law. We’re going to protect the American people.”

Bravo. For too long, bringing massive numbers of immigrants into the country has been a cash cow for organizations that were supposedly motivated solely by humanitarian concerns. No one, however, was concerned for the wellbeing of the American people. Until now.

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Hey Lutherans and Papists! Listen Up! Your Leaders Spend Billions on Illegals Through Thrivent, Rome And Parallel Gubmint Charities-NGOs!

 

Lutherans and Roman Catholics have enjoyed a tidal wave of tax-payer money gushing through their spread-sheets - thanks to the generosity of Joe Biden and his co-horts.

Lutherans, Romans, and others ask for gubmint support for endless charitable entities so they can carry out their work. I used to follow the Marvin Schwan and Thrivent gift money until the non-profits demanded $1,000 a year to expose how the money and the super-salaries were garnished.

Those who brown-nose with skill can enjoy the perks of shuffling the money and bonuses around. Those who ask penetrating questions find themselves prepping the Hurrycanes at the nursing home.

If Congress passes a law giving billions of dollars for traveling north, accepting cash, and obtaining healthcare, that can be scrutinized, line by line.

If Congress donates money to religious organizations in gigantic lump sums, the recipients are filtered through those generous saints who sanctify their lives with holy gifts and saintly results in appealing charities - NGOs. Non-Gubmint-Organizations.

Thrivent!

Look at Your Tax Dollars - Going to Lutheran Refugee and Immigration ServicesNow - GLOBAL REFUGE and THRIVENT!

 

Former - Lutheran Refugee And Immigration Services

Why an 85-Year-Old Charity Needed a New Name

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service rebranded as Global Refuge to put the spotlight on its mission — and boost fundraising.

By  Ben Gose

March 8, 2024

Global Refuge

In 2023, Global Refuge (formerly Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS)) opened the Camino a Casa program in Guatemala to offer specialized services for youth repatriated from the United States or Mexico. The program addresses reintegration challenges such as poverty, violence, and a lack of economic opportunity through comprehensive case management, access to educational and vocational training, financial assistance, and mental health support for youth and their families, promoting stability and fostering a sense of belonging for Guatemalan youth returning home.

This grant supports the Camino a Casa program in Guatemala, which promotes economic empowerment, social mobility, and diverse, inclusive communities through a three-prong system: pathway building, career navigation, and harnessing the power of champions and coalitions.

Support from the Thrivent Charitable Community Fund and generous gifts our donors help make this possible. For collaborative funds, Thrivent Charitable conducts an invitation-based grantmaking process. For more information visit our nonprofit resources.

How LCMS, WELS, and the Shrinking ELS

 

This orgy was sponsored by a Thrivent branch, pooling your money with everyone else's and making that pay-off for the ELCA agenda and poly-genderism.

WELS Pastor Novotny, Time of Grace, and a twisted Jeske smile suggesting ambiguity. Perfect!

ELCA Has Its own Dogmatic Stances And These Dainty Resources

 Who will rob me of this meddlesome priestess?