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Promoting Church Support Through Giving, Silvanus Ifechukwu Anuligo

Professional Dissertations DMin

Problem

Through the experiences of the writer as a local church treasurer for seven years in the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Nigeria, he became aware that this church does not have viable finances at the local church level, the local field level, and at the union field level. The purpose of this project was therefore to survey the patterns of giving, particularly tithing, as practiced in the SDA Church in Nigeria, in order to discover possible weaknesses, and to find ways of overcoming such weaknesses.

Method

The project was conducted by means of three different types of questionnaires. The first …