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Thrivent Financial Members Have Met the Challenge

By admin: on Feb.08.2010
Filed In: Earthquake

patientJodie Tiede, from Thrivent Financial, has reported that $2 million has been donated by members and an additional $1 million matched from Thrivent Financial. The $3 million will go to support the Haiti earthquake survivors. This goal was reached in little over three weeks.

Thrivent Fianncial will continue to offer online donation opportunities for members who still wish to donate to Haiti through Sun., Feb. 28, 2010.

There are 2 Comments to this article

 Carl Boydstun says:
02/16/2010

Many Thrivent members of our congregation (St Paul Lutheran in Grand Junction, Colo) donated to WELS Relief through the Thrivent matching campaign.

How much of the $3 Million will come to the WELS Relief?

Our members would like to know how their donations came out. Thanks
admin says:
02/17/2010

Thank you Carl for your question.

From the figures we received from the Thrivent home office to date, of the 1 million in Thrivent matching funds, the WELS has received just over $33,000. If you do the math of a 50 cent match on the dollar, the total contribution they did their match on was just over $66,000. I hope this answers your question. Obviously, donations continue to come in from congregations, individuals and organizations like Thrivent. The Committee on Relief would like to thank all who have so generously supported (and continue to support) our efforts of Christian love and compassion for the victims of this horrific earthquake with their prayers, dollars, and actions. Please continue to monitor the WELS.net and WELSRelief.net sites for updates on our relief response and how these donations are being specifically used to bring both physical and spiritual relief in the region.

Thank you and God bless your day,

Mark Vance
WELS Committee on Relief
Director of Operations

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