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Animal Shelter featured in national publication

The Wood River Animal Shelter serving the Sun Valley area was featured in a video on Explore.org. Click to play the video below.

In the United States alone, as many as ten million animals enter shelters each year and millions must be euthanized due to lack of space. Explore visits the Animal Shelter of Wood River Valley — the first no-kill shelter in Idaho — and finds out how the shelter staff rescues, protects, and finds homes for abandoned dogs and cats.

Dog Bless You from Team Explore on Vimeo.

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Lutheran World Relief
You did your footwork. You wrote as well as anyone could expect. But you did not finish all your work before you wrote.

This is the link you were looking for.

http://www.lwr.org/

Lutheran World Relief is a decades old extremely efficient and well respected charitable organization. It is supported by the ELCA, the LCMS, and other Lutheran sub-sects.

It is so well known by Lutherans that it probably did not occur to the minister to be specific. Did you clearly ask for specifics about that question?

Of course Lutheran ministers are paid. They are professionals and are expected to live up to professional standards. This is not compensation for dedication to the Lord, it is pay for the actual work for ministering to the congregation because that is ALL they do. Over the last couple of decades the cases of overstressed Lutheran ministers has increased to the point that a system of counseling and relief has been set up for them. This is similarly reflected in other Mainline Protestant churches.
Jesus died poor? I don't remember reading that anywhere, but he was supported by *charitable contributions.* Something like Lutheran Ministers are.
I would certainly rather hear a professional sermon about Christ's faith in his father and faith in humanity than a rambling discourse that results in nothing more that another round of indoctrination.
The ELCA has transparent finances and is more likely to root out any existing corruption on it's own than react in defense to outside reports. Although I have never heard of financial irregularities in the ELCA, I have read many stories of Pastors... read more
Comment by JustAGuy
February 14, 2010
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