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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:34:06 HST
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- From: Len Howard <tas@PEGASUS.COM>
- Subject: Re: contributions
- In-Reply-To: J Scott Berg <ALHY@SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> "Re: contributions" (Jan 2,
- 11:35am)
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- Scott, your position is not only common but admirable. The only
- problem is that it is unrealistic. We exist in the world. Insurance
- payments must be made on the church, and health insurance for the
- clergy and staff, utility bills have to be paid, the organist paid,
- the rector's car paid for, and on and on. I can assure you from
- experience on the vestry, that money (or lack of it) is one of the
- major concerns of the church. We do not discuss who gives what, in
- fact the only figure I know is what I give, and what the average gift
- and the highest gift is. This comes from the computer printout. All
- else is privileged information known only to the stewardship chairman,
- the treasurer and the rector. But they MUST be aware of this. Often
- the first sign a rector gets that a family is having some sort of
- trouble is that they stop paying their pledge on Sunday. Nobody is
- denied care because they don't pay, either. But you have to become a
- bit more realistic in your approach to stewardship.
- Shalom, Len Howard
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