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TURLOCK, CA (December 4, 2003)\u00a0 – Editor’s note: the following article, written\u00a0 by Rowena Coetsee, originally appeared in the May 2002 issue of The\u00a0 Covenant Companion.<\/em> Coetsee writes about religion for the Antioch\u00a0 Ledger-Dispatch<\/em> and attends Hillside Covenant Church in Walnut\u00a0 Creek, California.<\/p>\n

By Rowena Coetsee<\/p>\n
Wally Lindskoog talks as if he never left. And in some ways he hasn’t.<\/p>\n
The tall, lanky man gazes with nostalgia around the small Central Valley\u00a0 dairy farm where he grew up and worked all his life. “If I didn’t know\u00a0 God wanted me to sell this place, this would be killing me,” Lindskoog says.<\/p>\n
The sixty-five-acre spread in Turlock, California, is small as dairy\u00a0 farms go, but it was his life’s passion until Lindskoog finally decided\u00a0 to donate the property along with nearly 400 head of cattle last fall to\u00a0 the Evangelical Covenant Church. Cows lined up along one side of a pen\u00a0 for their mid-morning snack turn to cast a curious eye at Lindskoog as\u00a0 he approaches. Nearby a handful of massive, mud-encrusted bulls with\u00a0 brass nose rings slowly rise to their feet to get a better look at the\u00a0 visitor.<\/p>\n
Lindskoog maintains a running commentary on udders and bovine bone\u00a0 structure as he surveys the herd with a practiced eye. “There’s a\u00a0 sloping butt right there,” he says, pointing to a small heifer. “She’ll\u00a0 calf pretty easy.”<\/p>\n
God as a business partner<\/strong><\/p>\n
Lindskoog is a man with a head for business and a heart for God. Those\u00a0 two characteristics have led to a successful career, which has enabled\u00a0 him to express a remarkable generosity.<\/p>\n
A farmer’s son, the eighty-five-year-old Lindskoog has made a name and a\u00a0 comfortable living for himself with his Holsteins, known in breeding\u00a0 circles around the world for his bulls’ genes and cows’ exceptional milk\u00a0 production. And ever since he went into the business as a high-school\u00a0 student, Lindskoog has tithed not the 10 percent of income the term\u00a0 usually suggests, but half of whatever he cleared.<\/p>\n
His estate became part of that equation, too – the farm and his herd\u00a0 alone was a gift worth seven figures, which the denomination banked when\u00a0 it sold the assets last fall. Lindskoog also has donated more than one\u00a0 small airplane to the church, which kept them running with money from a\u00a0 “semen fund” set up when Lindskoog gave the church a portion of the\u00a0 royalties from the sale of his bulls’ semen.<\/p>\n
LeRoy Johnson, former president and founder of Covenant Trust Company\u00a0 and Covenant Estate Planning Services, laughs when asked about the\u00a0 ‘semen fund.’\u00a0 “That’s unique, right?” he says.<\/p>\n
Johnson, who has known Lindskoog for years, says that his generosity is\u00a0 “very unusual.”_He was particularly surprised that Lindskoog parted with\u00a0 his farm and cattle, knowing how much it meant to him. “I’d just never\u00a0 thought he’d do it,” Johnson says.<\/p>\n
Sherrill Hillberg, Lindskoog’s accountant for the past 21 years, has\u00a0 known him since she was a child – her father had a turkey ranch and\u00a0 Wally incubated turkey eggs for him. “He’s the most generous man I’ve\u00a0 ever met in my life,” Hillberg says. “If he has any faults, it’s that\u00a0 he’s too kind and too giving.”<\/p>\n
Employees always have been well paid, she says, and Lindskoog regularly\u00a0 gave them gifts in addition to Christmas bonuses. Last December, he took\u00a0 a handful of employees and their spouses out to lunch and presented them\u00a0 with the usual perks even though they no longer were working for him.<\/p>\n
Nor is he compliant when it comes to letting others pick up the check\u00a0 after a meal, Hillberg says. “God forbid, he will never let you pay,”\u00a0 she says.<\/p>\n
Lindskoog’s giving ways began at fourteen after his best friend Stanley\u00a0 died of complications following an appendectomy. The two boys lived in\u00a0 Turlock, just a half-mile from each other, raising Jersey heifers\u00a0 together in 4H and blowing taps to each other on their trumpets every\u00a0 night before going to bed. When Stanley passed away, Lindskoog was so\u00a0 disconsolate he never played the trumpet again.<\/p>\n
“Boy that shook me – he was my closest friend,” he says.<\/p>\n
Lindskoog became distraught when he learned shortly after Stanley’s\u00a0 death that he needed the same surgery. Lying in his hospital bed, the\u00a0 frightened teenager struck a bargain with God: “I don’t think you\u00a0 created me to die at fourteen,” says Lindskoog, recalling that\u00a0 conversation. “You make it clear to me (what you want) and I’ll do\u00a0 anything you want me to do.” If that meant pursuing his goal of breeding\u00a0 cattle, Lindskoog resolved to strive to have the most integrity of any\u00a0 dairy farmer in the area.<\/p>\n
No thunder or heavenly apparitions accompanied his surrender to God, but\u00a0 as soon as Lindskoog recovered he started making good on his promise by\u00a0 turning over half the net profits from his milk to Turlock Covenant\u00a0 Church. From then on, the Lord was his business partner, which in\u00a0 Lindskoog’s book meant that God was entitled to half of whatever he took\u00a0 home.<\/p>\n
Lest he forget his promise, the boy who once could “run like a rabbit”\u00a0 was left with nerve damage that permanently limited his agility – his\u00a0 “thorn in the flesh,” Lindskoog says.<\/p>\n
Over the years he’s kept up his end of the bargain and says God has\u00a0 proven faithful, too. Experience and the good Lord have taught him\u00a0 everything he knows about animal husbandry – Lindskoog has little use\u00a0 for fancy college degrees.<\/p>\n
All the cattle born on his farm have “Arlinda” as part of their name, a\u00a0 composite of Lindskoog and Arlene, his wife of sixty years. One of\u00a0 Lindskoog’s biggest money-makers was Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief, a bull\u00a0 whose picture hangs in his office along with photos of other members of\u00a0 his herd with valuable genes.<\/p>\n
Lindskoog’s contrarian breeding philosophy earned him his share of\u00a0 critics, Hillberg says, noting that he always has emphasized substance\u00a0 over show – producing good milkers was more important than winning\u00a0 trophies for their looks.<\/p>\n
By contrast, the upper echelon of breeders in the Holstein Association\u00a0 typically favored “glamour girls,” animals that were taller and pretty\u00a0 but also higher maintenance, says Bill Hobby, a former Lindskoog\u00a0 employee and a breeder himself for the past two decades.<\/p>\n
Unable to duplicate his results, many were jealous of his success, Hobby\u00a0 says. “He’s the Vince Lombardi, the John Wooten, the Michael Jordan,”\u00a0 Hobby says. “There’s nobody like him. That’s the kind of guy he is in\u00a0 dairy circles.”<\/p>\n
Chief not only sired offspring that each produced about 2,000 more\u00a0 pounds of milk per year than Lindskoog’s other cows, but he generated\u00a0 almost $2 million in royalties from the sale of his semen. Shortly after\u00a0 Chief\u00a0 died, the price tag on his semen rose to $150 for half a cubic\u00a0 centimeter (cc).<\/p>\n
Chief was the crown jewel of Lindskoog’s herd and, he says, a reward for\u00a0 faithful stewardship. “God gave me Chief, no doubt about it. He treated\u00a0 me better than I deserved. I’m just a sinner saved by grace – no big shot.”<\/p>\n
Lindskoog still gets choked-up recalling the time he received an urgent\u00a0 summons from the breeding facility in Illinois with the news that Chief\u00a0 appeared to be dying. Although the aging and arthritic bull refused to\u00a0 get up for his handlers, he rose to his feet as soon as he heard\u00a0 Lindskoog’s voice. “I didn’t know he loved me that much,” Lindskoog\u00a0 says, dabbing at his eyes.<\/p>\n
Obedience equals happiness<\/strong><\/p>\n
Despite his success, Lindskoog does not subscribe to any\u00a0 health-and-wealth gospel and he doesn’t give to God in order to get\u00a0 something in return. Rather, he says he follows the scriptural teaching\u00a0 on tithing simply because obedience produces happiness.<\/p>\n
In response to those who argue that they can’t afford to part with 10\u00a0 percent of their paycheck, Lindskoog cites the book of Malachi where God\u00a0 invites believers to test his bounty.<\/p>\n
“If you trust God and do it you’ll find your 90 percent will go further\u00a0 than the other,” he says.<\/p>\n
Admittedly, a person might have to learn to live more simply, but “(God)\u00a0\u00a0 can make it up to you in all kinds of ways,” Lindskoog says. “If you\u00a0 lean on him, he delivers.”<\/p>\n
Lindskoog has developed his own rules for giving as well. Don’t lend\u00a0 more than you’re willing to lose, he says, noting that more than once\u00a0 someone has reneged on promises to repay a loan. Support more\u00a0 missionaries by giving less to each – that way you end up praying for\u00a0 more of those in the mission field. And don’t contribute too large a\u00a0 percentage of your church’s budget because other members might be\u00a0 tempted to slack off in their giving.<\/p>\n
Lindskoog’s never bothered to calculate exactly how much he’s given away\u00a0 – he says he can do without the temptation to become prideful. The\u00a0 federal government was keeping track, however. Lindskoog was giving so\u00a0 much that he attracted the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n
Suspecting Lindskoog of cheating on his taxes, the agency periodically\u00a0 audited him, although it backed off when an indignant Lindskoog\u00a0 threatened to take the agency to court on grounds of harassment.<\/p>\n
“If you want to get my fire up, just accuse me of lying!” he says.\u00a0 Lindskoog still fumes when he recalls the government’s efforts to take\u00a0 what he insists was rightfully his.<\/p>\n
“The Bible says I can’t hate a human being, but it doesn’t say I can’t\u00a0 hate Internal Revenue!”<\/p>\n
A smile goes a long way<\/strong><\/p>\n
Lindskoog is not only a cheerful giver – he’s just plain cheerful. He\u00a0 greets strangers with a hearty embrace and a favorite riddle. (“Why are\u00a0 hugs neat gifts? One size fits all and they’re so easy to exchange.”)<\/p>\n
Quick with a joke, Lindskoog often has a mischievous twinkle in his eye.\u00a0 When a first-time visitor dropped by his office recently, he disappeared\u00a0 around the corner and returned with a varnished walking stick he had\u00a0 removed from its display case.<\/p>\n
“Any idea what this used to be?” Lindskoog asked, clearly relishing the\u00a0 moment. It was one of Chief’s very personal effects, he confided when\u00a0 the onlooker hesitated, explaining that a taxidermist friend surprised\u00a0 him by preserving it for posterity after Chief died in 1976.<\/p>\n
“He’s gotten a lot of mileage out of that one,” chuckles Hillberg, who\u00a0 has seen Lindskoog raise plenty of eyebrows with the conversation piece\u00a0 over the years. The same uninhibited joie de vivre<\/em> has surfaced\u00a0 at restaurants, where Lindskoog has been known to get up from his seat\u00a0 and join employees in singing “Happy Birthday” to a total stranger.<\/p>\n
He’s also unafraid of speaking his mind even if it means ruffling\u00a0 feathers. “I grabbed all the mean genes,” Lindskoog says. “I’m a\u00a0 raw-boned guy. People either love me or hate me – there’s no middle ground.”<\/p>\n
True, Lindskoog isn’t shy about sharing his views on anything and\u00a0 everything, Hillberg says. “He is very opinionated and has a hard time\u00a0 accepting someone’s opinions if they’re different from his,” she says.\u00a0 Although he steps on toes now and then, however, Hillberg knows\u00a0 Lindskoog well enough to realize that he means no harm.<\/p>\n
“That’s just Wally,” she says.<\/div>\n
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