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Terri Lynn Land's Family Gives Millions To Evangelical Group Targeting Non-Christians

September 16, 2014, 10:25 PM

One way Terri Lynn Land seeks to deflect attention from her wealth is by touting her family's charity work on her campaign website, reports Christina Wilkie on the Huffington Post.

"The Land family has always been dedicated to giving back to the community that gave them so much," the site reads. "Whether it was planting trees … or collecting donations to clothe and educate people around the world, the Land family has a deep commitment of service to the community."

Among all the family's good works, World Mission Inc., a nonprofit founded in 1994, stands out. Like the Land family real estate company, World Mission is controlled by Land family members, including Land's husband, who signs the group's tax returns, her father and her brother-in-law.

World Mission is an evangelical Christian missionary project that aims to spread the religion to what it calls "unreached people groups" or UPGs, by distributing audio players loaded with a recording of the Bible. The gold-colored players are about the size of an iPhone, and come with the New Testament recorded in the language of people the group is targeting. World Mission refers to the solar-powered talking Bibles as "treasures."


Read more:  Huffington Post


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