p. 11 | The Ten-Cent-a-Week Fund for 1911 by W. T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 1, 1912

The Ten-Cent-a-Week Fund for 1911

By W. T. Knox

The following report of the Ten-cent-a-week Fund for 1911 presents figures of special interest to all, trying, as we have been, to reach the goal of raising

for missions a sum equal to ten cents a member each week during the year.

Had a little over twelve thousand dollars more been received at the General Conference treasury before our books were closed, our goal would have been reached. As it is, the figures show an encouraging gain over 1910 in our offerings to missions, there being a gain of $10,854.55.

Of the twelve union conferences, it will be observed, four exceeded the mark set for ourselves, and that by quite an excess. Two of the unions gave over $11,000 more than their ten cents a week amounted to. Of the eight unions not reaching the goal, three came within about $2,000, and one within $310, of making up the amount.

Of the seventy-five conferences and mission fields included in this report, thirty-three exceeded the ten-cent-a-week-per-member offering, leaving forty-two that came behind. Not much can be said as to the cause of this failure. It is worthy of notice that some conferences in sections where we would least expect the brethren and sisters to give large offerings to missions, have, notwithstanding, exceeded the ten-cent-a-week rate. In some sections the severe drought of last year may have had much to do with the shortage revealed in the accompanying table.

With 1911 our Ten-cent-a-week Fund closes. Increased demands are made upon the treasury for 1912. To meet these, it has been cheerfully agreed to place our endeavor a little higher by setting the goal at fifteen cents a week per member instead of ten cents, beginning Jan. 1, 1912. With a little change in the reckoning of funds to apply on this new rate, and the loyalty of all the brethren and sisters in helping to meet the extra demands made upon us by the rapid progress of the message in all lands, it is believed that during 1912 we shall be able to raise this amount, or to come very hopefully near it. It will be necessary, however, for each local conference to begin at once to plan for meeting the new standard. Never before in the history of the message were there such openings and pressing demands made upon us as at the present. New fields are being entered that beckon us on to increased activity. The Lord is going before his people and giving success to our missionaries in every land entered. Altogether, the prospects are bright before us for the year just opening.

W. T. Knox.