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Did you recently receive a letter from Thrivent in Appleton, Wisconsin, stating that had “X” number of Thrivent CHOICE DOLLARS to apply to Lutheran charitable organizations, including local congregations? We would like to suggest that you direct your eligible dollars to Trinity Lutheran Church, McMinnville, Oregon. Garry Karns, our church treasurer, has a separate account for such a project so that CHOICE DOLLARS designated to Trinity Lutheran Church would not go into the general treasury. If you have already contacted Thrivent and chosen some other way for your eligible funds to be used, you can disregard this suggestion. We Thrivent members of Trinity have already lost out on using the funds available for the 2010 Care in Communities projects (approximately $1,100.00) because action was not taken soon enough. Dramatic changes have been made in recent months in the way Thrivent and our own local chapter Board is allocating funds. A meeting in early October is being scheduled for all Thrivent members in our congregation to discuss how to use the CHOICE DOLLARS and to help us better understand how to access Thrivent’s available funds. Jo Jarvis and Garry Karns are Trinity’s contact people. We make these suggestions and hope you will consider joining us in this project.

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