The First Million Dollar Sunday - August 30, 1998
The first Million Dollar Sunday was a huge leap of faith. Nothing like this had
ever been done in our brotherhood. Of course, God is bigger than our imagination.
Who would ever guess that EEM would have the opportunity to place Bibles in the
Russian school system. It took 4 months but finally, by the end of December, 1998,
EEM had raised $1,051,000. With the successful completion of the fund raising all
efforts were turned to producing the materials for the schools. Over the next year
EEM, placed Bibles in 2500 schools that serve 430,000 children in the Altai school
region in Siberia, Russia. Because of the generosity in exceeding the goal and some
timely cost savings EEM stretched the money to include 1183 public libraries in
the same region. The Russian system is quite different in that most people do not
own their own books but use the ones provided by libraries and schools.
Since this first Million Dollar Sunday, we have begun follow up seminars in this
region to help teach the teachers how to give instruction in the Bible for their
classes. We have received numerous comments about their appreciation for having
the opportunity to have access to the Bible. Teachers have reported that their biggest
concern at this time is that the original materials are used so much they are beginning
to wear out!
1st Million Dollar Sunday
2nd Million Dollar Sunday
3rd Million Dollar Sunday