Financial Summary for 1911.-Summary 2

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1912

Financial Summary for 1911.—Summary 2

Tithe	Amount	Per Cent of Fund Named	Per Cent of Grand Total
From the United States	$1,001,675.56	67.79
From all other countries	475,914.70	32.31
Total			$1,477,590.26 62.53
Per capita			$13.56

Offerings

	Amount	Per Cent of Fund Named	Per Cent of Grand Total
From the United States:—
Reported by conferences	$238,941.65
Reported by Sabbath-schools	111,919.10
Reported by Missionary Volunteer societies	6,726.98
	357,587.73	73.70
From all other countries:—
Reported by conferences	75,423.70
Reported by Sabbath-schools	48,172.40
Reported by Missionary Volunteer societies	4,061.60
	127,657.70	26.30
Total			$485,245.43 20.54
Per capita			$4.45

Special Funds

	Amount	Per Cent of Fund Named
Tithes appropriated by conferences in United States for evangelistic work in mission fields	$152,842.11	77.23
Tithes appropriated from all other countries	45,062.41	22.77
	197,904.52
Total “offerings” noted above	485,245.43
Total for mission fields in 1911	683,149.95
Total for mission fields in 1910	568,957.13
Increase for 1911	114,192.82
Per capita of mission offerings for the 65,284 communicants in the United States (amount, $510,429.84)	$7.82
Per capita of mission offerings for the 43,691 communicants outside the United States (amount, $172,720.11)	$3.95
Average for the 108,975 communicants in the world (amount, $683,149.95)	$6.27

Home Missions

Contributed for support of orphanages, religious liberty work, work for colored people, and various lines of mission work, where the funds are sent outside the church, but not to a foreign field:—

	Amount	Per Cent of Fund Named
From the United States:—
Reported by conferences	$94,136.55
Reported by Missionary Volunteer societies	3,412.74
	97,549.29	68.76
From all other countries:—
Reported by conferences	43,225.96
Reported by Missionary Volunteer societies	1,082.39
	44,308.35	31.24
Total		$141,857.64 6.00
Per capita		$1.30

Local Church Work

Contributed for local church work, such as distribution of literature, assisting needy poor, church expenses, maintenance of church-schools, and all other local missionary work or enterprises:—

	Amount	Per Cent of Fund Named
From the United States:—
Reported by conferences	$107,610.87
Maintenance of church-schools	112,335.72
Maintenance of local Sabbath-schools	585.97
Reported by Missionary Volunteer societies	2,198.78
	222,731.34	86.20
From all other countries:—
Reported by conferences	20,784.21
Maintenance of church-schools	14,287.26
Maintenance of local Sabbath-schools	84.92
Reported by Missionary Volunteer societies	507.23
	35,663.62	13.80
Total		$258,394.96 10.93
Per capita		$2.37

Grand Total

Grand total of all funds raised by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination for 1911 for evangelistic work:—

	Amount	Per Cent of Fund Named
From the United States	$1,679,543.92	71.08
From all other countries	683,544.37	28.92
Total for 1911		$2,363,088.29 100.00
Total for 1910		2,223,767.52
Net gain		139,320.77
Per cent of gain		6.27
Per capita for the 65,284 communicants in the United States	$25.73
Per capita for the 43,691 communicants outside the United States	$15.64
Per capita for the entire world	$21.68

	Amount	Per Cent
Another statement as to funds indicates that there was—
Raised by churches, as tithes	$1,477,590.26	71.81
Raised by churches, as offerings (foreign, home, and local)	580,122.94	28.19
Total raised by churches		$2,057,713.20 87.08
Contributed by Sabbath-schools	$160,762.39	6.80
For maintenance of church-schools	126,622.98	5.36
By Missionary Volunteer Department	17,989.72	.76
Total by departments		305,375.09 12.92
Grand Totals		$2,363,088.29 100.00
Per capita		$21.68