Mission Offerings by W. T. KNOX

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 11, 1916

Mission Offerings

By W. T. KNOX

The total receipts of mission offerings for the first quarter of 1916, as shown in the accompanying report, are $124,096.66. This creates a shortage for the period covered of $61,700.64, and reveals that the membership of the North American Division Conference has paid in offerings for the first thirteen weeks of the year only fourteen cents a week per member instead of twenty.

The seriousness of this shortage is that the operations of the General Conference require this year the full quota called for in our standard of offerings. Our brethren in our foreign mission stations are calling very insistently for the amounts allotted to them for needed land and buildings as well as for the necessary amount to meet their operating expenses; but these calls, greatly as the improvements may be needed, can be responded to by the treasury only as the money is received.

These improvements are greatly needed just now, and in some instances the health and lives of our workers are endangered by lack of them. If the money is not soon supplied, it will mean in some instances the loss of another year. Faithful, systematic giving on the part of all, will make it possible for the treasury to send relief to the most needy fields at once.

One encouraging feature of the report is that the members of ten of our seventy conferences and missions, and two of our twelve union conferences, have paid in excess of twenty cents a week per member. Why should not all conferences do as well? W. T. KNOX.