Posted by:
jiminycricket
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Date: January 26, 2015 03:17PM
Two posts have talked about TSCC financial predicament. One post discusses Central America’s LDS members, that they need to fund their local expenses from local tithes.
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1489168A second post discusses in response to the first post that: “I think this is the sign of the beginning of the end.”
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1489168It seems that TSCC will invest in self-sustaining areas. And to what extent? Here are three examples of costly meetinghouse modifications:
The California San Jose Mission area is unique and pricey for LD$ Inc. The missionary department allots a vast fleet of 89 vehicles. It covers Silicon Valley and the surrounding area from Hollister to King City, Monterey up to Los Altos and Menlo Park, and over to Livermore with a population sum of 3 million people. Scattered throughout the mission are 240 missionaries who live in church paid housing that isn’t cheap. Missionaries reiterate ‘the surge’ has concluded from its former high of 290-300 missionaries.
There’s no shortage of ‘sacred funds’ in this LD$ vineyard when it comes to mormon real estate. Million$ go to improving existing meetinghouses. One building just completed its third least-expensive-improvement (one million dollar$). Three buildings recently had their 1960’s steeples razed and rebuilt at a widow’s-thievery-$ucking-mite of more than $250,000 each.
Example 1
(See Meetinghouse @ 3060 Pratt Avenue, San Jose, CA):
https://www.google.com/maps/place/3060+Patt+Ave,+San+Jose,+CA+95133/@37.3790536,-121.840093,3a,47.9y,154h,85.94t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sN4K6hfXFYA_-zCrq9y2tCg!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x808fcda403714c09:0x6098e9fb28d65368!6m1!1e1Example 2
(See Meetinghouse BEFORE @ 1655 Noreen Drive, San Jose, CA):
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2606307,-121.9066712,3a,75y,352.36h,88.44t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sg7SJV_11c5FgSQDJJ9MIbA!2e0(and Noreen Meetinghouse AFTER):
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2609356,-121.9058564,3a,46.4y,275.83h,83.67t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sYup-zM3Oulr_MxcsL3aH8Q!2e0 )
Example 3
(See Stake Center @ 220 Elk St, Santa Cruz, CA):
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.989753,-122.004602,3a,48.4y,57.72h,90.17t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sDtahHlfga3zKy8Dqefo8gg!2e0In total: 3 steeples at a combined cost of over $750,000. My source, the Facilities Manager.