Thank you for how well you watch over the Lord’s funds coming and going in our stake. You’re amazing in how you carefully watch every dime, for which we are most grateful.
Pr Christiansen and I had a little visit today about the matter you raised with me: do we or don’t we charge full price to YW from other stakes who want to attend our Stake YW Camp?
As I pondered this after our visit, there are two factors that I feel are very important to me:
1) I truly don’t believe we’ll have a flood of girls wanting to attend our camp. While, to us, the subsidized $50 fee is a bargain, to families and even the YW it’s really not a bargain (probably why I’ve never had any parent in our stake express to me their thanks for our summer camp subsidies over the years). I believe it’s because other stakes hold fundraisers so in the end their YW Camp doesn’t cost families anything. So our $50 fee really won’t be very attractive. In the case of the Carpenter girls I believe they simply wanted to be with their close friends in the WH Ward.
2) These are the Lord’s funds and we want to bless as many of His covenant children (members) wherever we can as long as we have sufficient funds. The Lord has blessed us with a miracle of ongoing surpluses in the stake and wards, I believe because of our policy to eliminate fundraising as taught by the Brethren.
So I’d like us to subsidize ALL YW who attend the Stake YW Camp—members, past stake members and even non-members, as our policy currently stands.
We’ll look to you to alert us if our funds become dangerously low and we need to alter the policy. But for now, would you please “charge” the wards $50 per girl regardless.
Thanks again for all you do to watch over these sacred funds with such care.
Crismon
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