Current Fund Income vs. Expense
1989 – 2013 In Millions
$45 $50 $55 $60 $65 $70 $75 $80 $85 $90
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pound. “I live alongside him and I ask Christians to do likewise,” Nzap- alainga said. “You can’t call yourself a Christian if you kill your brother.” Begun last December, the Anti- Balaka attacks were in retaliation for early 2013 attacks on Christians by an Islamist militia.
Squabbles over Bible
A Georgia judge ordered Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter to turn over his Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal for safekeeping until
Total Operating Income
a final decision about ownership is made. Bernice King said in February that she would fight her brothers to keep their father’s “most prized pos- sessions” and she was “absolutely opposed” to selling them. “The estate has always asserted that it owns” the Bible and Nobel medal, said her brothers’ lawyer. The only surviv- ing daughter of the slain civil rights leader said selling the medal would be “morally reprehensible” and “spiritually violent,” and selling the Bible “troubles my mind, vexes my spirit and weighs on my soul.”
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In the black Churchwide operations of the ELCA posted a $2.9 million operating sur- plus for fiscal year 2013 before vari- ous transfers were made as instructed by the Church Council. Mission support—a portion of money from donations congregations receive that is sent on to synods and the church- wide offices—totaled $48.75 million with additional income totaling $22 million. Another $1.56 million was released from designated/restricted funds. Expenses totaled $69.4 million. Mission support was $1.12 million less than that of 2012 and $646,000 less than budgeted. (See chart above.)
Public policy partners Lutherans and Episcopalians are working together on social justice issues through the “Lutheran Episco- pal Advocacy in Nevada” effort. Mike Patterson, director of LEAN, said leaders from the Grand Canyon and Sierra Pacific synods and the Episco- pal Diocese of Nevada see hunger as a main priority. Other issues are the criminal justice system, mental illness and guns, and monitoring the state’s new anti-sex-trafficking law.
SOURCE: ELCA OFFICE OF THE TREASURER
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