The Lutheran Church in Great Britain receives a grant from her rich relatives every year. The rich relatives are the Lutheran Council of Great Britain who suddenly changed their name without conversation to the "working name" The Council of Lutheran Churches.
These grants were for "refugee churches" originally but have only come to moderately and rarely support the pastors of Lutheran Church in Great Britain congregations. During the past few years grants were given to the Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga congregation. The congregation that Dean Burch and Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga regularly referred to as the most well-off congregation in the LCiGB.
More disturbingly, the leaders of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain will not grant any money for a pastor that does not fill out the paper properly. As the application states:
"NB.
Unless a congregation submits an application that meets the criteria, it will
not receive a grant to subsidise the salary of its pastor(s) even if one has
been received in previous years."
What does this mean? It means that a pastor and family who is not being adequately paid, who has previously received subsidies because the leaders of the LCiGB no how poorly paid the pastor is, refuse to help if the paper isn't filled out or is late. Just another example of the total lack of Christian Charity and Compassion and the absolute control that Dean Bruch and the Treasurer hold on the entire church.
In documentation and actions, the Dean and Treasurer find that paperwork is more important than a pastor and family having adequate food or shelter. Since the Dean and Treasurer are married and they choose who serves in leadership at the Lutheran Church in Great Britain, they have the "votes" to continue policies that are devoid of Christian compassion.
