Posted by:
Stuck
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Date: January 16, 2011 07:46PM
EQ president told us today that the church is now implementing a new policy tying the amount of money a ward gets back from the church for its budget to the home teaching and visiting teaching percentages. All sorts of murmuring ensued, with EQ president saying this will be a church wide policy. Not even EQ president was excited about this. He himself called it bribery, but in typical TBM fashion said it must be the right thing to do because it came from above.
Can anyone verify that what he told us is correct? Are they doing this alll over?
If true, wow! Seems like the perfect scheme to become even cheaper with the membership (wards already get back less than two percent of the tithing they donate, are assigned to clean toilets, house missionaries, and are squeezed dry in a variety of ways) and then pin the blame for less funding on the members themselves. "Bishop says that we don't have money for that activity because our home teaching numbers aren't good enough." With no financial transparency, this tactic seems all the more perverse.