Comments about ‘LDS Church ships food to earthquake victims in Chile’

Wow 6 tons!
[That's about the weight of 3 SUVs driving around Salt Lake City at any given time or place.]

To a country of what? ... 16 million??
[Please keep in mind, thats nearly 5 times the population of ALL of Utah combined.]

Not much more than a token jester.

Sometimes, I'm embarassed by our lack of Christian giving to the poor and NEEDY.


WWJD?

BTW, It the beginning of a new month - Did you visit your home teaching familes last month?

Great post LDS Lib. How many tons of aid have you shipped to Chile?

Wow, LDS Lib such venom! Sorry for whatever we did or didn't do for you. I am sure the Chileans will be grateful for the 6 tons now and the 20 plus tons later.

Please read the entire article, 6 tons, plus 20 tons, plus two more shipments, weight not mentioned of food etc..

Unfortunately, I think the "token jester" is LDS lib.

The article says the food supplies are from storehouse's in Chile. I think it's great that the local LDS community in Chile has a storehouse that is capable of providing food for their Chileans.

Anonymous | 7:37 p.m. March 2, 2010
Great post LDS Lib. How many tons of aid have you shipped to Chile?

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Whatever $XXX.XX bought on the Humanitarian box on my Tithing slip last week, and you?

Fast offerings are this Sunday,
There is a Humanitarian Box,
or specify "Other" and write "Emergency Response"
please use them.

The people in Haiti still need help too!!

[If 11 million Mormons did even say - $1, that should be... over $11 million,
$10 is over $110 million,
and a measly $100 would be over $1 billion

Come on - stop driving your SUV for a couple days and take the bus to help someone else.]

@ money where my mouth is "a measly $100 per mormon would be over $1 billion" is great! fantastic! wonderful! how should my autistic son write that $100 check out to the church? how about my 4 year old?
just because there are a lot of mormons doesn't mean there are a lot of households...
$100 would mean groceries, medicine and gas money for the week for my family...should I give all of it and then go to the bishop & ask for help? or is it ok to give what I can and pray always?
our health insurance has increased while our wages have nosedived. we're living on a wing and a prayer but we still pay tithes because it's a commandment. those who have much give what they can & those who have less still give what they can.
it's the simple act of giving towards our brothers & sisters that count...

There are over 500,000 LDS in Chile, and I personally know a few thousand, in the areas affected. My wife and kids know a few hundred, too.

The Church, or any religious institution, is expected to serve its own as well as others.

True?

This is happening.

Of the half million+ Chilean Mormons, only a 15-20 percent are active in the faith. That means that the membership is not as robust as should be, and places like Quirihue that once had branches are now defunct.

Is it the LDS Church's fault that Quirihue (near the epicenter) doesn't get church help when our actual members are in hundreds of other places with active, hungry, homeless members?

See my point? We operate where we are, and with limited resources there is only so much that can be done.

And when it is all said and done, I would love to see any other aid organization donate more time or money.

I wish the Catholics were more efficient per capita. If so, Haiti and most of Africa would be doing so much better than they do currently.

As for Lutherans? Look on google. They have papers, missionaries, reporters...

I am LDS and live here in Santiago, Chile. My family and I are all well, but have been directly effected in many aspects. Food has been hard to come by, gasoline is being rationed, people are stealing what they can to survive. Disasters bring out the good and the ugly in people. Let us be mindful of the good. We are grateful for the church's response to those in our country who have lost their homes, their livelihood and their loved ones. I am humbled through this experience.

LDS Lib | 7:24 p.m.

Leave it to YOU to find fault in the church's response.

You're a REAL class act (as usual).

LDS Lib | 7:24 p.m.

Your true colors are showing a little.

If your head and heart were in the right place you wouldn't be mocking people for doing their home teaching, finding fault and back-biting, or judging the church and their response to everything including recent disasters.

I just thought your early AM posting was very revealing about your REAL heart and your agenda. You may call yourself "LDS" but I'm not buying it anymore. You're a poser.

I am thankful for the food was send. The Government had not reached some of these places until today.
If you don't have any food you are happy with whatever help you get.
Please help don't fight.

Yet if you are a young family with three children living with your marginally employed mother-in-law and barely able to scrape buy with paying tithing and fast offerings, and the later are based on what you actually save by fasting, the expected $6 from your family to get to the $1 per-person formula might well be a lot of money.
You also have to bare in mind some church members live in countries where the GDP-per-capita is well under $10,000 annually (I think a few are places where it is under $1,000 annually). Whatever averages people come up with might not sound high, but you have to consider them in the light of the fact that there are many very poor people in the Church.
Of course there are many wealthy people in the Church as well.
Lastly, 6 tons of food might not be all that much, but if it is say rice, it can feed a lot of people for a while. Even if an SUV ways 2 tons, if you sent it to Chile they could not eat it, so it is not relevant.

The article says 26 tons of FOOD plus TWO unspecified amounts. This is being sent to areas south of Santiago affected by the quake. This is only a small section of Chile, so the 15,000,000 population figure is not the one to consider.
If I read the article correctly, this is the weight of the food. While it is probably not all that is needed, it is a good start.