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Thank-Offerings
 The thank-offering offering concept in the
General Synod Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society developed
around the anticipated celebration of their 10th anniversary. An 1889
committee reported, “The daily acknowledgement of God’s blessings
through mite boxes has been a spiritual benefit to more than one soul,
and the committee recommended their use not only once in ten years, but
every day of the year.” The first year, 1889, $6,100 was collected. Over
a quarter of a million was collected between 1937-1940 and by the 1949
-1952 triennium, the total was well over a million. The box to the left
was used in 1907 and the other after 1918. |
