Several years ago (I can’t remember how many) the church asked me to be Stewardship Chairman. I was a young laymen at the time and didn’t have a lot of knowledge of what it meant to be Stewardship Chairman. I had served some time on the Finance Committee so I had an inkling of what the job entailed.
I immediately went to the GSU Library and researched stewardship and fundraising. In that search I stumbled on a program called “Miracle-of-the-Dime.” {That tells you how old the book must have been.)
The “Miracle-of-the-Dime” program inspired me to try a similar program in our stewardship campaign. It was updated and called “Miracle-of-the-Dollar.” I went to the bank and and got 300 one dollar bills. I had assumed that that amount would suffice for the morning service (11 :00 only at that time.) Each of the bills was placed in a small envelope labeled “Miracle-of-the-Dollar” and each person in attendance received one of the envelopes. They were to take the dollar invest it in some way-business {lemonade stand), bank, stock market. … Whatever the dollar earned was to be given back to Pittman Park stewardship drive.
I have no memory of the financial success of the program. I do remember that we had a good time with the program, and I think that everybody got some stewardship thoughts in their heads.
Norman Wells