Mission Offerings by W. T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 4, 1915

Mission Offerings

By W. T. Knox

HEREWITH is submitted the annual report on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund for 1914. While the reports of this fund that have been appearing from time to time in the REVIEW AND HERALD have without doubt been of interest to all the readers of this paper, the writer feels sure that the accompanying report will be read with the greatest interest by all those who have been striving during the past twelve months to make up the amount required for the various needs of the General Conference. Our aim has been to secure for the foreign missions an amount equal to fifteen cents a week per member, totaling $507,000, and in addition to this, an extra five cents a week per member for the relief of our training schools and sanitariums. If we had been successful in our efforts, we should have for the benefit of these institutions, $169,000.

The accompanying statement shows that from every union conference, with the exception of the Southern and South-western, we have received for the year in excess of fifteen cents a week per member, the aggregate amounting to $614,877.23, and of these there were five unions that raised in excess of twenty cents a week per member. This will enable the General Conference to turn back into the ten unions that have been successful in raising in excess of fifteen cents a week per member, in the neighborhood of $100,000 to apply on their institutional indebtedness. This will be a great relief to many conferences, and without doubt a source of encouragement to all our people, and should prove a real inspiration to the entire field to take up this important work in a most aggressive manner for the year upon which we have now entered.

It is evident to all who have given any study to our efforts in raising these funds, that our great lack in the past years has been our failure to give the proper attention to this effort in the earlier part of the year. The recognition of this is evidenced in many of the letters now being received at the General Conference Office, in which many conference officials express themselves as determined to benefit by past experience, and to begin their efforts in raising the mission funds in the early months of 1915.

The conferences that have provided a surplus for the relief of the institutions are as follows:—

Atlantic Union ............... $16,077.82 Eastern Canadian Union ....... 3,939.75 Central Union ................ 14,790.44 Columbia Union ............... 17,606.85 Lake Union ................... 12,564.52 Northern Union ............... 18,358.12 North Pacific Union .......... 1,659.51 Pacific Union ................ 15,603.66 Southeastern Union ........... 1,916.46 Western Canadian Union ....... 6,495.90

W. T. Knox.