Sydney Anglicans tighten their belts as their prayers go unanswered.

The Anglican Church's Sydney diocese faces another year of belt tightening and cuts to community services after its investment arm warned of a ''substantial reduction'' in its annual payout.
Two years after it lost $160 million because of a high-risk gearing strategy, the investment arm of the country's largest Anglican diocese has blamed a 71 per cent fall in earnings - to $3.2 million for the year to December - on a ''subdued performance'' by the Australian sharemarket.
The Glebe Administration Board, which manages the Sydney diocese's endowment fund, has been on a cost-cutting drive since 2008, when its share portfolio crashed during the global financial crisis. It has cut about 10 full-time staff over the past year.
But in a sign of more pain ahead, the board has recommended to the church's standing committee that the total distribution for next year be reduced to just $3.6 million -about 75 per cent of the synod's total available funds next year of $4.9 million.
The board believed the payouts in recent years were too high to allow it to meet its primary aim of maintaining the ''real value'' of the endowment fund's property. ''Regardless of market conditions, if you have got an endowment of $110 million, it is just not sustainable to be distributing amounts of $10 million a year before costs - you are going to go backwards very quickly,'' Mr Payne said.

I'm starting to think God doesn't like orthodox 'fat cats' who use their money to cause dissention and discrimination, for the ultimate goal of personal power! I wonder if Phillip Jensen actually has trouble discriminating between the word of God and satan?