Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Rev. Matthew C. Harrison former pastor of Fort Wayne Zion Lutheran Church


Harrison is elected LCMS president, Mueller first vp.



HOUSTON—Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, executive director of LCMS World Relief and Human Care since 2001, is the new president-elect of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, and Rev. Herbert C. Mueller Jr. will serve as first vice-president Click here to read the rest of the story.



In 2003 LCMS formed the Lutheran Housing Support Corporation, it's a nonprofit in St. Louis Missouri where Rev. Matthew Harrison currently lives.



990 forms report the nonprofit received $101,000 in gifts, grants and contributions compared to the gifts totalling over $1 million the following year. In the same year expenses for travel came in at $70,000 and consultant around $64,000, with the Rev. Harrison, executive director received compensation totalling over $130,000 and secretary Marie Kienker, a former deputy director of the Fort Wayne, Ind., Housing Authority and past chief of the Carroll County, Md., Bureau of Housing and Community Development.
received around $100,000, according to the Internal Revenue Service 990 form.

The LHSC is involved in housing and community development efforts in cities that include St Louis, Fort Wayne, Baltimore, New York, Kansas City, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Fairfax, Va. "As the corporation networks with our congregations and districts currently doing community-based projects, this list will grow," Kienker said.

Dr. Leo S. Mackay, president of Integrated Coast Guard Systems and former deputy director of the Department of Veteran Affairs, is NHSC board chair. Board members also include attorneys William D. Swift and Janet M. Johnson; former LCMS Northern Illinois District President William Ameiss; and LCMS World Relief/Human Care Executive Director Matthew Harrison.
Somebody was not pleased with the fiscal responsbilities of LCMS World Relief/ Human Care increase of personnel and operational cost.

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