[PrincessPerky]

We give not only to the church but to several other charities.

We can see the church books, and while I do not always agree with everything they spend on (buying more supplies when they have many just in a jumble from three years of VBS...) I do feel that they try to spend more of it on missionary work, and outreach.

In fact I belong to a church that doesn't fund raise. Not that they never want money (we now worship in a gym, because the sanctuary is too small for us, by a LOT.) But they do not offer you a trinket in return for cash, nor do they ask you to sell said trinkets to friends and neighbors.

There are churches who abuse the money and I do find it a shame, I wish I could stop it, but I can't. I can only control where I send my money to and teach my children.