SPONSORING THE NEWS TODAY ON KSL...

Deseret Trust Company --LDS CHURCH

**HELPING YOU GIVE WITH LOVE AND TRUST**

***Deseret Trust Company works in partnership with LDS Philanthropies to help donors accelerate the work of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its institutions ***, including Brigham Young University (Provo, Hawaii, Idaho), Humanitarian Services, the Perpetual Education Fund, LDS Business College, the Church History Fund, the General Missionary and Temple Construction Funds, and other important initiatives approved by Church leaders for philanthropic support of members and friends.


There you go --give until it hurts !!!

JB

*LOL*

Keeping all that $ straight must take an army of accountants and tax attorneys.

..."other important initiatives approved by Church leaders for philanthropic support of members and friends."


Taking The Boyz and family/friends golfing in Hawaii? Oh, yeah, your tithing $$$ at work. And whose friends?

It's like those televangelists who own a fleet of private jets and multimillion dollar houses, all bought by "donations to the Lord."

Imagine what the world could be if we just dropped the middlemen.

In other words: "Don't leave anything to your family when you die--give it to us!"

"Your family? Oh, don't worry, just think of the blessings that will pour down from heaven on them because YOU were so generous..."

the leaders of a big corp that refuses to divulge any of their own financial information! perfect!

No way in hell that I'm going to give TSCC a damn dime when I die.

BUT WHILE YOU ARE ALIVE ---- You can have the Church manage your philanthropic donations while you are alive --O.M.G. is that a scary thought.

JB

I know people who's parents have put all their money into this in their will. Kind of pisses off the kids.

Oh, and why TSCC says that no tithing money is involved in the City Creek Mall, remember that the money in Deseret Trust is NOT considered tithing money. So, they can use it for whatever they want.

I also wouldn't put it past the bastards to use this as indulgences -- if you sign your estate over to Deseret Trust, you can have a lifetime membership at the hunting ranch, or maybe a mission president job in the country of your choice.

At that time, families (local ward families) were constantly being hounded to pay money for ward building costs and maintenance, families were hounded into volunteering to do work at Church-owned businesses (canneries and stake farms), families had to bear the full cost of their sons and daughters serving on missions, families were encouraged to pay for church publications, including church magazine subscriptions, families were supposed to make fast offerings every month....

For most social events involving food, members were expected to prepare and bring dishes from home...

For scouting activities, the scouts had to work on various projects and sell things to earn money to pay for summer camp (usually a 1-week excursion somewhere with barebones provisions).

It seemed that very little of that tithing money actually ever came back to the local wards in anything near an amount equivalent to what the local wards paid to SLC.

I think that there is a VERY GOOD REASON for the Brethren to avoid making their accounting books open to the public.

I heard an ad on KSL radio this morning...Deseret Trust was sponsoring the news! Part of the ad said people could go to deseret trust.com for more info.

Ok...Obviously it is a "for profit" arm of TSCC because it has the .com addy, not .org or something used for organizations...I get that.

But, really...sponsoring a radio program????Isn't that pretty pricey? Is that how this company uses donations from church members?

gemini Wrote:
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> I heard an ad on KSL radio this morning...Deseret
> Trust was sponsoring the news! Part of the ad
> said people could go to deseret trust.com for more
> info.
>
> Ok...Obviously it is a "for profit" arm of TSCC
> because it has the .com addy, not .org or
> something used for organizations...I get that.
>
> But, really...sponsoring a radio program????Isn't
> that pretty pricey? Is that how this company uses
> donations from church members?

Well, since the church owns KSL and Deseret Trust, that's just funny money, so it doesn't seem pricey to me. Incestuous, yes, but...