Money Money Money... sigh.

I'm feeling a little discouraged, and also strangely empowered right now. I just came from a Peer Minister meeting with LCM and we got some pretty grave news. Basically regardless of whether or not we pass the Quadrennial Review I mentioned previously, the Lutheran church simply does not have money to give us. We pretty much have the option of throwing in the towel and saying that's it LCM is done, or doing everything within our power to find funding. We need some way to get around $6,000 per month. Pastor Dan is incredibly committed to making this work, and we all decided that so are we. So now we need to start going to everyone we can, other churches, foundations, corporations, absolutely anyone and anywhere, to get money to keep going. Our budget goes to the end of the year but in the mean time we need to get going. We are looking at this as a challenge to prove our faith, and we know God will get us through it. This is just a push to reach out. So we are reaching, as far as we can. If anyone has any ideas at all, or would be willing to talk to their church about either contributing or making an announcement to their congregations to ask for donations to LCM@USC, please please please let me know and I can give you information about what we do and anything, I can even come make an announcement, seriously anything. This is not just to Lutherans, we do a lot of ecumenical (interfaith) work, and we are more or less just a Christian fellowship so if you are not Lutheran don't count yourself out. We can use some help right now. If nothing else, at least send us your prayers.