Franklin Graham actually doing something useful, for once, instead of praying and hoping the problem will just go away??? Franklin Graham is as hypocritical as you can possibly get🤪
Take your arrogant, holier-than-thou assumption that Franklin Graham is engaging in a worthwhile ministry-when he’s just as arrogant and holier-thou as his dad and you are-and burn with it. None of you holier-than-thou Right Wingers (a term that goes back to the 80s, with Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker…all who repented, ONLY after they got caught) intimated me, so take the assumption that I “obviously know nothing about” what I’m referring to and burn in Hell with it. I’m more attune to the sins of these televangelist hypocrites, than you’re man enough to admit to-much less confront, honestly-so fuck off🖕😂
Tombstone, you see something many don't. The sheer power/strength/organization/equipment/reach, depth, and political inroads of Graham's influence and organizations are not something to shrug a shoulder at. And, they should be questioned. Their donors are not the average working man mortgaged with a fake lender, if you understand what I mean.
And, their expenses are not in the thousands, but billions. They also make a point of stating they accept no funds from governments. This is almost true, as they get paid by these governments for every hour worked by a volunteer, but these funds are said to go to the communities affected, not Samaritan's Purse. So, how do they do it?
In support of your comments here, one should look into and verify father, son, and grandson affiliation or membership to Freemasonry and the Jesuits. This would explain many of the above anomalies shown., and your comments. I have seen this type of information on the father.
For now, and until God's people learn who we truly are and the power given us by God, we are stuck using these in-power organizations to gain access to these disaster areas, the equipment, and managed organization required to accomplish what we set out to do to help our brothers in need, and truly in God's Name, not Graham's.
In short, we are stuck with this Hegelian dialectic until we overcome the world, as it is written.
So, verify for yourself what your experience tells you, then share and expose this proof to those who may doubt or nay say what you know.
And, to David Charles, respectfully, the term "charity" is a commercial term, not one to replace the word "love" as the KJV does in 1 Corinthians 13. See the Geneva Bible for the correct word usage.
Charities are those that accept freely given gifts, then its members pay themselves to dispurse these gifts per their will or agenda to whom they wish. I'm sure you have learned of many substantial so-called charitable organizations that keep upwards of 80% or better of funds collected, and dispurse only 10 to 20% or less to the actual object of their said charity. They call it administrative costs. Some of their officer's salaries are seven figures. Go figure.
When possible, best to give to your targeted object directly without a middle man. Or, at least investigate the organization and its disbursement percentage.
Nice try…but having been there, done that…you’re not convincing. Your Hegelian analogy is spot on, but only if you think you are forced to accept Graham for being a part of the very denomination system that I rejected years ago. The American people don’t need a celebrity televangelist to bring help to our brothers and sisters in Greenville NC…we are more than capable of doing so ourselves…and put the spotlight on real heroes at the street level, not on celebrities televangelists, who -90% of the time-are only trying to help, to make themselves look good-and in turn, fatten their own-already fat-bank accounts. Billy and Franklin Graham are in the same “bad faith league” with Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Van O’Steen (in Houston).🙏
Maybe I worded things unclearly. I was actually agreeing with you, and giving more exposure to who they truly are. Let me know how I could have worded what I wrote more clearly to this end.
Thanks. And, yes, I believe in some aspects, we are stuck until we make the right changes. Scripture says the same. I'm referring more to us who came from out of the area to help.
Without Samaritan's Purse and other organizations in place, it would be much more difficult on several levels for me and others to help. They have the lay of the land and the local people's trust, the permission from the victims and local politicians to operate in the area, the facilities to shelter, feed, train, and equip the long distance volunteers...
So, until these types of logistical matters can be handled differently, I need to put aside who the Grahams... are for the time being. Make sense?
Your rationale is exactly what I don’t agree with, because that’s how greedy wolves in sheep’s clothing infiltrate into your ranks to take advantage of you; when you have the complete ability to organize this stuff yourself (which you apparently don’t agree with), so you decide to compromise and let smooth talking con artists (Graham, Swaggart, Bakker, etc) come in with offers help-with them knowing fully well that you think you can’t help without them, so you accept their help with bad faith stipulations attached-that these wolves have not disclosed and won’t disclose, unless ordered to do so by a court-they take advantage of you, knowing fully well they’ll be long gone, before you admit you’ve been taken advantage of, due to stipulation language in any contracts that were signed for purchases or related logistical necessities…that allow expenses that are so vague that these televangelists knowingly build religious empires off you and you can’t do anything to stop them, because of the structure of the language in these “emergency” contracts. So, NO…you make NO sense. You can do far better; I don’t think you want to do better, even though you know you could! Justify yourself all you want; I don’t agree with you🙏
This is a remarkable gift. The total cost should come in somewhere between $50 and $100 million dollars if it’s done right, and I have no doubts about it being done right. To me and the other 99.99998% of Americans, that is an impossible price to pay. For the other .00002% that are the 813 billionaires in the United States, it’s a price they could easily afford.
I know that I can build a home for well under 100k. Under 20 years ago, I was the president of a Habitat for Humanity affiliate that had built 10 homes in the 10 years since its inception. In the 2 years I led the affiliate, we built 10 more homes. The average cost of the first 10 homes was $44k. The average cost of the 10 I helped build was just over $32k. I didn’t do it by myself, I had lots of great people help me do all of that. I simply had a goal of building as many houses as possible, whatever that number would be, and I put together a plan to achieve it.
I was blessed with an injury in the Army that left me convalescing for the next 4 years. The first year was the toughest, but after that I found things to do, like Habitat. I was also the PTA President at our kids school for 2 years. So I read with kids and learned a lot about their lives. That’s why I did Habitat. One of the kids families was building their house, so I helped. Them it blossomed from there. I ended up building 4 houses for kids my kids went to school with. It was a tough time, but it sure turned out good.
Hope someone can answer this. Do none of these people have home insurance that would provide temp. accomodation whilst plans drawn up and rebuilding? Are these folks without, or, has insurance said act of God, not paying out? Regardless of the answer, it's deplorable that they are left this way.
No flood insurance. I have heard of one family that had reimbursement insurance for floods. No one was in a flood zone. Of course, that's all changed:(
It's deplorable, as you say, was not a flood zone. I'm just going by what happens in UK, obviously not on scale of, shall we say, what was done to them, in this region. We had a summer storm once, where lightening struck my tv aerial and blew up tv, sky box, vcr and insurance refused to pay out. It should make us all go read our insurance policies thoroughly to see whats not covered.
Insurance companies have all but left flood zones in Florida. The rest went bankrupt and many don't even file a case because then the insurance companies will drop them.
My answer is irrelevant; I’m not impressed and the rest of you are…you’re easily impressed with the celebrity pastor and his dad; I’m not…Franklin and Billy Graham want your accolades and approval…they’ve lived for your approval as celebrity televangelists all their lives….yet, the world didn’t improve significantly due to them, but you wouldn’t know it, from the way 99% of the rest of you worship Franklin and Billy Graham💀
Though Samaritans Purse gets high marks from Charity Navigator, they refuse to list the salaries of Franklin Graham and other key personnel, a huge red flag for me.
Billy Graham was a 33 degree Mason and, from what I've read, played a part in the MK Ultra Program. He also had some kind of ongoing connection with astrologer Jeanne Dixon.
I stopped participating in the Christmas shoebox program years ago and had a poor opinion of the organization. I have been pleasantly surprised to see their involvement with helping hurricane victims.
My concern with this organization is that they are keeping too large a percentage of donations for "administrative costs". I won't donate to any outfit that doesn't use at least 90% of funds for the intended cause.
Another concern is that the present CEO is a Mason.
'brought in $894 million in total revenue in the 2020 fiscal year and spent only $670 million.'
Also, it looks like it is a family business from what others are paid besides Franklin
Will cut them off tomorrow.
Questionable
use of donations is why I also stopped supporting Wounded Warriors
They spent an inordinate amount of donations for expensive fundraising events.
One was held at a posh resort.
The CEO at the time was a fundraiser, NOT a vet
A mason?
Many of our Founding Fathers, e.g. Washington, Franklin, Hancock, and Revere were Freemasons. The ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity that Freemasons represent appealed to them.
Rosalee I'm so glad you did some more investigating of SP.
As for masons, at the highest degrees in this organization you discover that they really revere Lucifer. They also make you take an oath that supercedes all other oaths. So, if you are a judge or President of the US or many other jobs, you take an oath, but the oath to the masonic brothherhood is considered even more binding, so if there's a conflict between them, you must honor the masonic oath or the consequence is death. You don't have to take my word; do your own research. Also realize that our history has been whitewashed so look into Ben Franklin's association with the Hellfire Club.
They are a tremendous charity and so highly respected for their ethics. Since the government of NC and the feds have failed to help their citizens it is only the volunteers and charities that are providing some hope to these desperate people. God bless Samaritan's Purse.
Thank you, Dr. Aranda, for keeping these hurricane victims at the forefront. Though I live in another state only 3 hours from Asheville, the people in my church seem to be ignoring them for the most part, other than praying. I use yours and Forbidden News' articles to keep it in their faces. And this is a church which distributes free food to the food insecure and items crocheted by church women to residents of battered women's shelters. I'm thinking I should print out some of these articles and give them to our pastor.
All my pleasure!
Franklin Graham actually doing something useful, for once, instead of praying and hoping the problem will just go away??? Franklin Graham is as hypocritical as you can possibly get🤪
You might wanna take a look at charity ratings before babbling about something you obviously know nothing about.
Take your arrogant, holier-than-thou assumption that Franklin Graham is engaging in a worthwhile ministry-when he’s just as arrogant and holier-thou as his dad and you are-and burn with it. None of you holier-than-thou Right Wingers (a term that goes back to the 80s, with Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker…all who repented, ONLY after they got caught) intimated me, so take the assumption that I “obviously know nothing about” what I’m referring to and burn in Hell with it. I’m more attune to the sins of these televangelist hypocrites, than you’re man enough to admit to-much less confront, honestly-so fuck off🖕😂
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🖕
😿
You seem nice
This is definitely something useful... and people say they have seen them since the beginning.
Tombstone, you see something many don't. The sheer power/strength/organization/equipment/reach, depth, and political inroads of Graham's influence and organizations are not something to shrug a shoulder at. And, they should be questioned. Their donors are not the average working man mortgaged with a fake lender, if you understand what I mean.
And, their expenses are not in the thousands, but billions. They also make a point of stating they accept no funds from governments. This is almost true, as they get paid by these governments for every hour worked by a volunteer, but these funds are said to go to the communities affected, not Samaritan's Purse. So, how do they do it?
In support of your comments here, one should look into and verify father, son, and grandson affiliation or membership to Freemasonry and the Jesuits. This would explain many of the above anomalies shown., and your comments. I have seen this type of information on the father.
For now, and until God's people learn who we truly are and the power given us by God, we are stuck using these in-power organizations to gain access to these disaster areas, the equipment, and managed organization required to accomplish what we set out to do to help our brothers in need, and truly in God's Name, not Graham's.
In short, we are stuck with this Hegelian dialectic until we overcome the world, as it is written.
So, verify for yourself what your experience tells you, then share and expose this proof to those who may doubt or nay say what you know.
And, to David Charles, respectfully, the term "charity" is a commercial term, not one to replace the word "love" as the KJV does in 1 Corinthians 13. See the Geneva Bible for the correct word usage.
Charities are those that accept freely given gifts, then its members pay themselves to dispurse these gifts per their will or agenda to whom they wish. I'm sure you have learned of many substantial so-called charitable organizations that keep upwards of 80% or better of funds collected, and dispurse only 10 to 20% or less to the actual object of their said charity. They call it administrative costs. Some of their officer's salaries are seven figures. Go figure.
When possible, best to give to your targeted object directly without a middle man. Or, at least investigate the organization and its disbursement percentage.
Nice try…but having been there, done that…you’re not convincing. Your Hegelian analogy is spot on, but only if you think you are forced to accept Graham for being a part of the very denomination system that I rejected years ago. The American people don’t need a celebrity televangelist to bring help to our brothers and sisters in Greenville NC…we are more than capable of doing so ourselves…and put the spotlight on real heroes at the street level, not on celebrities televangelists, who -90% of the time-are only trying to help, to make themselves look good-and in turn, fatten their own-already fat-bank accounts. Billy and Franklin Graham are in the same “bad faith league” with Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Van O’Steen (in Houston).🙏
Maybe I worded things unclearly. I was actually agreeing with you, and giving more exposure to who they truly are. Let me know how I could have worded what I wrote more clearly to this end.
You were far too wordy and gave the impression that we’re stuck with a system we don’t like, want and can’t stand🙏
Thanks. And, yes, I believe in some aspects, we are stuck until we make the right changes. Scripture says the same. I'm referring more to us who came from out of the area to help.
Without Samaritan's Purse and other organizations in place, it would be much more difficult on several levels for me and others to help. They have the lay of the land and the local people's trust, the permission from the victims and local politicians to operate in the area, the facilities to shelter, feed, train, and equip the long distance volunteers...
So, until these types of logistical matters can be handled differently, I need to put aside who the Grahams... are for the time being. Make sense?
Your rationale is exactly what I don’t agree with, because that’s how greedy wolves in sheep’s clothing infiltrate into your ranks to take advantage of you; when you have the complete ability to organize this stuff yourself (which you apparently don’t agree with), so you decide to compromise and let smooth talking con artists (Graham, Swaggart, Bakker, etc) come in with offers help-with them knowing fully well that you think you can’t help without them, so you accept their help with bad faith stipulations attached-that these wolves have not disclosed and won’t disclose, unless ordered to do so by a court-they take advantage of you, knowing fully well they’ll be long gone, before you admit you’ve been taken advantage of, due to stipulation language in any contracts that were signed for purchases or related logistical necessities…that allow expenses that are so vague that these televangelists knowingly build religious empires off you and you can’t do anything to stop them, because of the structure of the language in these “emergency” contracts. So, NO…you make NO sense. You can do far better; I don’t think you want to do better, even though you know you could! Justify yourself all you want; I don’t agree with you🙏
This is a remarkable gift. The total cost should come in somewhere between $50 and $100 million dollars if it’s done right, and I have no doubts about it being done right. To me and the other 99.99998% of Americans, that is an impossible price to pay. For the other .00002% that are the 813 billionaires in the United States, it’s a price they could easily afford.
I know that I can build a home for well under 100k. Under 20 years ago, I was the president of a Habitat for Humanity affiliate that had built 10 homes in the 10 years since its inception. In the 2 years I led the affiliate, we built 10 more homes. The average cost of the first 10 homes was $44k. The average cost of the 10 I helped build was just over $32k. I didn’t do it by myself, I had lots of great people help me do all of that. I simply had a goal of building as many houses as possible, whatever that number would be, and I put together a plan to achieve it.
Thank You for all you have done, and for enlightening us with your insight!
I was blessed with an injury in the Army that left me convalescing for the next 4 years. The first year was the toughest, but after that I found things to do, like Habitat. I was also the PTA President at our kids school for 2 years. So I read with kids and learned a lot about their lives. That’s why I did Habitat. One of the kids families was building their house, so I helped. Them it blossomed from there. I ended up building 4 houses for kids my kids went to school with. It was a tough time, but it sure turned out good.
Hope someone can answer this. Do none of these people have home insurance that would provide temp. accomodation whilst plans drawn up and rebuilding? Are these folks without, or, has insurance said act of God, not paying out? Regardless of the answer, it's deplorable that they are left this way.
No flood insurance. I have heard of one family that had reimbursement insurance for floods. No one was in a flood zone. Of course, that's all changed:(
It's deplorable, as you say, was not a flood zone. I'm just going by what happens in UK, obviously not on scale of, shall we say, what was done to them, in this region. We had a summer storm once, where lightening struck my tv aerial and blew up tv, sky box, vcr and insurance refused to pay out. It should make us all go read our insurance policies thoroughly to see whats not covered.
Exactly. 👍
Insurance companies have all but left flood zones in Florida. The rest went bankrupt and many don't even file a case because then the insurance companies will drop them.
In reply to 'Tombstone'
Since YOU feel it is run by a hypocrite, perhaps you would like to see what
Charity Navigator thinks:
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/581437002
BTW Smaritan's Purse set up in a field hospital in NYC's Central Park during COVID
to the disdain and sneering of TPTB
BTW prayer does help
Agreed. Tombstone is clueless.
My answer is irrelevant; I’m not impressed and the rest of you are…you’re easily impressed with the celebrity pastor and his dad; I’m not…Franklin and Billy Graham want your accolades and approval…they’ve lived for your approval as celebrity televangelists all their lives….yet, the world didn’t improve significantly due to them, but you wouldn’t know it, from the way 99% of the rest of you worship Franklin and Billy Graham💀
WHATever
😂😂🖕🖕
Rosalee
Though Samaritans Purse gets high marks from Charity Navigator, they refuse to list the salaries of Franklin Graham and other key personnel, a huge red flag for me.
Billy Graham was a 33 degree Mason and, from what I've read, played a part in the MK Ultra Program. He also had some kind of ongoing connection with astrologer Jeanne Dixon.
I stopped participating in the Christmas shoebox program years ago and had a poor opinion of the organization. I have been pleasantly surprised to see their involvement with helping hurricane victims.
My concern with this organization is that they are keeping too large a percentage of donations for "administrative costs". I won't donate to any outfit that doesn't use at least 90% of funds for the intended cause.
Another concern is that the present CEO is a Mason.
Thanks for the head's up
I did some digging and found this:
'brought in $894 million in total revenue in the 2020 fiscal year and spent only $670 million.'
Also, it looks like it is a family business from what others are paid besides Franklin
Will cut them off tomorrow.
Questionable
use of donations is why I also stopped supporting Wounded Warriors
They spent an inordinate amount of donations for expensive fundraising events.
One was held at a posh resort.
The CEO at the time was a fundraiser, NOT a vet
A mason?
Many of our Founding Fathers, e.g. Washington, Franklin, Hancock, and Revere were Freemasons. The ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity that Freemasons represent appealed to them.
Rosalee I'm so glad you did some more investigating of SP.
As for masons, at the highest degrees in this organization you discover that they really revere Lucifer. They also make you take an oath that supercedes all other oaths. So, if you are a judge or President of the US or many other jobs, you take an oath, but the oath to the masonic brothherhood is considered even more binding, so if there's a conflict between them, you must honor the masonic oath or the consequence is death. You don't have to take my word; do your own research. Also realize that our history has been whitewashed so look into Ben Franklin's association with the Hellfire Club.
I do not know their oath but I KNOW the oath I took to
support and defend the Constitution and I hold that oath even to
this day as my commission has no expiration.
I also know for certain that many of our political power brokers
have belonged and do
belong to secret organizations e.g. Bilderberg, Skull and Bones,
Bohemian Grove and many others which I believe betray the
oaths THEY took
You either support and defend the Constitution or you do not
and I don't care who they are.
THEY are NOT to be trusted IF they have one foot in both
Amen with the prayers and support and gifts.
Those damned Christians going around helping people. Never ends.
Ha! And may more join in!
Let's pray the government doesn't succeed in running them out and "violating" them for various codes.
Goodness knows!
They are a tremendous charity and so highly respected for their ethics. Since the government of NC and the feds have failed to help their citizens it is only the volunteers and charities that are providing some hope to these desperate people. God bless Samaritan's Purse.
Thank you so much for posting. I had no idea Mr. Graham is the CEO of Samaritan's Purse.
Absolutely doing Gods work! They are such a blessing! If anyone wants to donate to a great charity they are an excellent choice!
Thank you, Dr. Aranda, for keeping these hurricane victims at the forefront. Though I live in another state only 3 hours from Asheville, the people in my church seem to be ignoring them for the most part, other than praying. I use yours and Forbidden News' articles to keep it in their faces. And this is a church which distributes free food to the food insecure and items crocheted by church women to residents of battered women's shelters. I'm thinking I should print out some of these articles and give them to our pastor.