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Lutheran congregations in the San Mateo County Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans have provided over $30,000 for a variety of community projects. These projects include supporting a student at the Lutheran Navajo Mission in Arizona, a family in Daly City that lost their house in the winter floods last year, care for two residents at Sunnyview Lutheran Home who have exhausted their resources, scholarships for youths to go to Mexico to help build homes, assistance with travel expenses for Girl’s State winners, support for the Peninsula Asian Missionary Society, construction assistance for a school for children with cerebral palsy.
Nearly all 19 congregations in the San Mateo Chapter of Thrivent Financial have used supplemental funds to provide needed assistance within their congregations. Some of the projects funded by Thrivent Financial matching funds projects include assisting church schools with playground equipment, a new building and additional storage cabinets; painting or refurbishing the church building; refurbishing the parsonage, assisting with youth activities (including sending youth to confirmation camp and to the national youth gathering); and assisting with the “House Next Door” to house homeless families.
Rev. Jeff Schufreider, Vice President, and Mary Lee Miner, Financial Director are leaving the Chapter Board after completing their second year. Both Paula Cahill and Maria Villanueva served as Records Director for a part of this year, with Paula also serving a full year previously. The help and assistance given by these four board members is greatly appreciated. Their contributions have helped the San Mateo County Chapter congregations immensely.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has issued two challenge grants for hurricane relief. For both “Florida Hurricanes” and “2004 Hurricanes Response” Thrivent Financial is challenging its members to raise $2 million or more, through their chapters, and Thrivent Financial will supplement the funds raised with an additional $1 million if the challenge is met. Should members raise less than $2 million, Thrivent Financial still will supplement 50 cents for each $1 raised.
November 30 – Last day for chapter leader elections
If you would like to extend your charitable giving, then “Giving Plus,” Thrivent Fianancial’s individual member matching gift program, is the answer! Gifts of up to $400 per member made to Lutheran institutions (schools, Lutheran Social Services, seminaries, or Mt. Cross, for example) can be matched at $.50 on the dollar by Thrivent Financial. Many of our Chapter congregations have affiliated schools that could benefit from this program. More information can be found at www.thrivent.com. Your local financial Representative/Associate would be happy to do a presentation on “Giving Plus” to your school board or church council. One thing to remember is that contributions to a congregation are not eligible for the “Giving Plus” program.
The list of San Mateo County Chapter members shows that over half of the Chapter members (that is, those living in San Mateo County) have no congregation affiliation listed. Nearly half of the others show congregations in other areas of California or out-of-state. We recommend that you check with your congregational coordinator, or your Thrivent Financial Representative, to determine if your congregation affiliation is listed accurately.
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