Posted on 02/21/2016 10:09:12 AM PST by MarvinStinson
If you are angry (about the tension in St. Cloud) and want one entity to blame, it is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, the primary federal refugee resettlement agency working in St. Cloud!
That supposedly 'Christian' charitable organization is directly responsible for the high Somali numbers in St. Cloud, and they are jointly responsible for bringing over ten thousand Somalis from around the world to colonize Minnesota towns in the last ten years alone--Catholic Charities and World Relief MN (now Arrive Ministries)*** helped also. Of course they have brought many more than 10,000 in over two decades and not just Somali Muslims!
Rumor has it that 1,500 new Somalis are going to be resettled by the Lutherans in St. Cloud this year. (This is part of former Rep. Michele Bachmann's district!)
Doing well by doing good? Jodi Harpstead is making over $300,000 a year to seed St. Cloud and other Minnesota towns with Somali Muslims. These three 'Christian' phony non-profits (phony Christians!) could stop the US State Department's further seeding of the state if they just said NO! We won't resettle any more Muslim 'refugees.' But they don't! Why?
Why? Because it is big business (as we learned from Lutherans in New England)! They dare not challenge their sugar daddy--the federal government! And, they must be afraid of the growing power of the Islamists and the Islamist front group--Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)--which they are responsible for unleashing on the city of St. Cloud.
So how much money does it take to buy the Lutherans?
Back in 2013 we told you that then Minnesota Lutheran CEO, Mark Peterson, was pulling down a salary of $441,767.
We went to a recent audit linked on their website and here are some numbers we found (audit ending September 30, 2014):
They had total revenue of $103,135,439 and received $91,887,312 from GOVERNMENT FEES AND GRANTS. (Go here and click on 'financials' to see for yourself).
That makes them 89% government funded! That is a government agency not a charity, and surely not a 'Christian' charity!
The progressive 'religious Left' is living off of the US taxpayer!
Doing well by doing good?
Salaries and payroll accounted for $57,929,172 of your money--your tax dollars for that one year!
Jodi doesn't pull down a salary as high as Peterson (LOL! War on women?) her predecessor did, but it is fairly substantial none-the-less as we learned from a recent Form 990. She was compensated with $280,812 and an additional $42,495 came from related organizations (whatever that is!).
Her second in command, Kenneth Borle, made $202,087 and $33,192 (from related organizations).
They have 8 other employees making over six-figure salaries!
Go here for the others in leadership at Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota responsible for building the aggressive and demanding Muslim population of the state.
And if you are looking for more people to blame for what is happening to Minnesota, here is the Board of Directors (do you know any of them?):
Board of Directors
Greg Vandal, Chair Nancy Rystrom, Vice Chair Cathy Norelius, Secretary Sue Haffield, Treasurer * Bishop Thomas Aitken Dan Anderson Mike Anderson Rev. Dr. Eric Barreto Ann Beatty Dr. Paul Dovre Jon Evert Nicole Griensewic Mickelson Rev. John Hogenson Rev. Dr. Rolf Jacobson Jen Julsrud John Mattes Artie Miller Joanne Negstad Joan Wandke Nelson Rev. Mark Skinner Bishop Ann Svennungsen Rev. Mari Thorkelson Lori Wall
The main office of Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota is here (below). It is time to let them know how you feel, to put the pressure on the organization directly responsible for disrupting St. Cloud.
Good Lutherans especially need to speak up!
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota 2485 Como Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 651.642.5990 800.582.5260
And, according to the US State Department's handy list of contractors the St. Cloud Lutheran resettlement agency office is here:
LIRS MN-LIRS-08: Lutheran Social Services Of Minnesota Address: 22 Wilson Avenue Suite 110 St. Cloud, MN 56302 Phone: 320-251-7700
One more thing! Tell Rep. Trey Gowdy what he has in store for his community if a refugee resettlement site is established in Spartanburg, SC.
See our complete archive on St. Cloud here. And, click here, for an enormous archive on Minnesota. See especially our earliest post (2011), and one of our top posts of all time, when we first learned of the three 'Christian' groups swamping Minnesota with Somalis at the behest of the US State Department.
*** An indicator that the heat is on some of these phony Christian organizations is that they are changing their names. Note that World Relief Minnesota is now Arrive Ministries and Lutheran Social Services of New England is now Ascentria Care Alliance (here).
Somehow I doubt they are becoming Lutheran either.
Back in 2013 we told you that then Minnesota Lutheran CEO, Mark Peterson, was pulling down a salary of $441,767.
We went to a recent audit linked on their website and here are some numbers we found (audit ending September 30, 2014):
They had total revenue of $103,135,439 and received $91,887,312 from GOVERNMENT FEES AND GRANTS. (Go here and click on ‘financials’ to see for yourself).
That makes them 89% government funded! That is a government agency not a charity, and surely not a ‘Christian’ charity!
The progressive ‘religious Left’ is living off of the US taxpayer!
Doing well by doing good?
Salaries and payroll accounted for $57,929,172 of your money—your tax dollars for that one year!
I think you can blame LSS for the Somali problem the same way you can blame the railroads that transported Jews to the camps in Nazi Germany. They may not have originated the sin, but they facilitated it.
ELCA, of course.
One would expect a community organizer like Obama to carry out this type of scheme. He campaigned on “transforming Americaâ€.
One would not expect a GOP controlled House of Representatives to fund such activity, but they routinely have.
The ultimate one at fault is the one PAYING to bring them here. The govt, using our money at the expense of the ones they stole the money from.
My stepmother worked there in Minneapolis at Lutheran SS as a secretary and said that the people who worked there were hostile to everything Christian. I would have thought that they came from the church but they don’t.
Lutheran Social Services gave up being Lutheran eons ago.
Some of these new Minnesotans have joined ISIS and fight against America. Is it healthy for any nation to import those hostile to it?
This is also why the federal government should NOT be funding charities, religious or otherwise. Lutheran Social Services MN receives multiple millions of dollars from the federal government. They are serving as useful idiots to undermine America. That is the America with a Christian heritage, and a Constitutional government.
It is a very bad idea to bring in people who do not share America’s culture, or respect the ultimate law, the Constitution.
Instead these “refugees†are devoted to bringing Sharia law wherever they go.
What does Garrison Keillor have to say about this displacement of the “native” Norwegians and Germans?
Next thing you know, these invaders will be taking over Lake Woebegone (which is just right down the road from St. Cloud).
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/immigrat/beckf.htm
Idiots did the same thing in Wausau Wisconsin 30 years ago with Hmong
And Hmong are not nearly the problem muslim’s are.
I gotta say I was mildly floored, and I thought how refreshing it was to be in a place where some kid could ride his bike to a downtown part of a city, leave his bike outside and be confident that no one was going to steal his bike.
Most of America used to be that way.
Watch.
And whatever they’re not responsible for, Catholic Charities is responsible for.
And it used to be expect that if you found a wallet with money in it you returned it intact to its owner.
Now it’s national news when somebody does it.
I actually got to know a Somali “refugee” very well. As far as Muslims go they are the very worst. The guy I knew was the Stupidest America hating SOB that I have ever met. I hope to God that his work permit has run out by now and he is back in Somalia with his 7 wives and 30 kids. I would take 10 Syrians over 1 Somali any day of the week. MOST OF THEM ARE WORSE THAN RABID DOGS.
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