LPRWW has been in existence under various names since January 24, 1991 in Delaware, Nevada, California and even Hong Kong , and we went on-line in October 2004, when "World Wide" was added.

Below, is an extract from our LPRWW Bylaws as included on this website, where we provide for philanthropic activities, but it wasn't until January of 2005 that we were able to initiate this on a small scale. For a while in 2005, we had a PayPal capability. However, with no deposits, we cancelled that account and relied strictly on our personal donations, soon finding that there is a real need for individual assistance to very low income, but spiritually oriented people. Our personal contributions to LPRWW have increased dramatically, concommittent with a ever-increasing grant demand. LPRWW grants as a percentage of "receivables" for the last few years: 2005 - 28%; 2006 - 31%; 2007 - 45%; 2008 - 34%; 2009 - 72%; 2010 - 71%; 2011 to Feb 1 - 97% (already in 2011, over-commited to the point that it will take about six months to recover).

However, an article entitled Shoestring_Philanthrophy in the December 19, 2010 issue of Parade Magazine inspired us to take another look at using "external donations" to help cover some of these philanthropic costs, so we've now re-installed a PayPal link to be able to accept donations.

If you're concerned about tax-deductability, please rest assured that the IRS HAS to recognize churches as being automatically non-profit establishments and, as mentioned in our Bylaws, LPRWW successfully addressed that issue. In fact, the IRS auditor was surprised that, at that time, we didn't have any provisions for "outside donations." :-)