Hi,
I would like to see some proof the the money is getting to those who need
it.  I don't trust the big organizations and the big rock stars and their
donations.My gut feeling is there is more politics than money going on
there, and other things are being finnanced as well as disaster relief.
Remember the We Are The World th9ing about 20 years' ago.  People in need
didn't get that money.
From Vinny the Skeptic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: money


> Actually, the reason that you don't know about how much the church is
> doing  is because the mass media isn't interested in telling you, but I
> assure you that a lot his happening on the Christian front.  The beauty is
> that there are a lot of missionaries already in place over there so it is
> pretty easy for denominations to funnel their resources to them because
the
> workers are already in place.   For example, our denomination is
collecting
> money for the World Relief fund, both on line and in the offerings on
> sunday mornings.  I know that over $10,000 has been collected in just on
> line donations from us and we're a pretty small denomination.  World
Vision
> is over there.  I know that the Lutheran church is over there.  The list
> goes on and on, but you'll never hear about any of it because the
hollywood
> crowd and the Red Cross, which is no longer a Christian organization, get
> all the publicity.  Sorry, I'm not very impressed.  I like it that the
> church people were already in place for deeper spiritual reasons than a
> publicity stunt.  It doesn't help that the majority of the people affected
> by the Tsunami are muslim and they have their reasons not to give the
> Christians credit as well.  For example, a group of Christians tried to
> rescue three hundred orphaned children and the Islam government refused
the
> release of these children on religious grounds.  The bigger question is,
> how many Muslim countries are coming to the aid of these people?  One
> figure that I heard was "ZERO!"  There's more to it than what you are
being
> told.
> Just my two cents worth.
> Kathy
>
>
>
> At 11:35 AM 1/15/2005, you wrote:
> >At the risk of getting myself in trouble, I get really angry when we get
a
> >disaster.  The reason being, Paul Mc Cartney spearheaded a concert for
the
> >people who were affected in New York right after 911.  There is going to
be
> >a special on nbc tonight for the people affected by the Sunumi, oops,
> >misspelled that.  So these multi-million Christian recording artists,
where
> >are they?  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't hear much about the
church
> >giving away a million and a half to the disaster relief like Paul Mc
> >Cartney, Celiene  Dian, and others have.  Sorry Phil, that's my soap box
and
> >after reading your article on America, you just opened it up.
>