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SteveH

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Re: Using the Bible as an inspiration for sacrificial good works
« Reply #50 on: March 09, 2020, 08:12:29 AM »
You are obviously determined to think the worst possible of the SA, and your blatant manipulation of the figures proves it. Reason doesn't work with bigots, so I'll say no more, except that you have provoked me into making a one-off donation to the SA next pay-day, out of sheer bloody-mindedness.
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Re: Using the Bible as an inspiration for sacrificial good works
« Reply #51 on: March 09, 2020, 08:26:32 AM »
You are obviously determined to think the worst possible of the SA, and your blatant manipulation of the figures proves it. Reason doesn't work with bigots, so I'll say no more, except that you have provoked me into making a one-off donation to the SA next pay-day, out of sheer bloody-mindedness.
I'm not manipulating anything - I am simply using the Salvation Army's own formal accounts.

And on your donation - well if you're happy that just 40p of every £1 of that donation is going into charitable work to support vulnerable people, fine. Personally I'm not and I wont donate to them because there are plenty of other charities (e.g. Shelter) where genuinely 90% of the funds go to help vulnerable people. I'd encourage anyone thinking of donating to the Salvation Army to think again if they want their donation to achieve the maximum benefit.

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Re: Using the Bible as an inspiration for sacrificial good works
« Reply #52 on: March 09, 2020, 08:51:00 AM »
Prof; Like the Kirk nationally, the SA will submit accounts. Each congregation will also submit accounts, as in the Kirk locally, to OSCR. As a matter of tedium, we just had our ASM (Kirk version of AGM) last week, where our accounts were approved by the congregation before sending copies to Presbyter for presbyters to fall asleep over, and OSCR. The Ayr citadel of the SA do the same - except that they have to submit two sets, since the charitable giving for purposes outside congregational expenses has to be scrutinised separately. I myself saw both set of accounts - well three years of them, anyway, as did the rst of the sub-committee I was volunteered to serve in. Both sets came with the typical OSCR approval note we ourselves get each year.
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Re: Using the Bible as an inspiration for sacrificial good works
« Reply #53 on: March 09, 2020, 04:42:05 PM »
Obviously not - but he played a major part.
To be honest, I think it was more the international sanctions and the ostracism. A friend of mine who is South African is convinced it was mainly the fact that the Springboks were denied international rugby.
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