Focus on the Family will lay off 30, move 15 more to new jobs

[BR_Parkway]

http://www.gazette.com/articles/focus_27140___article.html/million_organization.html

Focus on the Family announced Monday that it is laying off 30 employees and reassigning 15 others.

It also announced that founder James Dobson had been cleared of accusations that he jeopardized the group’s nonprofit status by endorsing Republican candidates.

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Dobson has said on several of his radio shows that donations have been down.

Many churches and parachurch organizations are seeing decreases in income, according to Terry Gorka, head administrator at Barna, a California-based research organization that tracks Christian ministries. <b>The collection plate has been suffering for a number of years and even more so recently as economic woes, including the housing downturn, has hit.</b> While many denominations suggest a 10 percent tithe, in recent years most Americans have given less than 3 percent of their income, a Barna study found.

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And yet they all still parrot the line about Shrub's wonderful economy and how God has blessed the USA.

[Patsy Stone]

1. So, then, can we take it

that the family must be coming into focus?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Thirty to be raptured, another fifteen in purgatory so to speak. n't