Mrs. Lizzie McAdams, home missionary, evangelist and promotional and field worker for the National Association of Free Will Baptists, \u201cinvented, (as she said) the Jehoiada Chest to collect money for Free Will Baptist work.<\/p>\n
Mrs. McAdams\u2019 idea came from the priest Jehoiada\u2019s method described in 2\u00a0Kings 12. Jehoiada bored a hole in a chest and placed it by the altar. The priests put offerings into the chest to be used for repairing the house of the Lord.<\/p>\n
Miss Lizzie became field worker for the Woman\u2019s National Auxiliary Convention in 1941. The first mention of the Jehoiada Chest appears in 1942, when she reports placing 108 of the chests. That same year the National Association elected her Promotional Secretary and Field Worker. In that capacity she also distributed the chests. She reported in 1943 that the chests brought in a total of $765.45.<\/p>\n
That year she suggested that she remodel the chest and have it patented. The executive committee of WNAC voted to leave it in her hands. The patent office refused the patent.<\/p>\n
The plan for the chest was that each family place one dollar in the chest each month. The money would\u00a0be used for foreign missions, with a\u00a0third of it kept for \u201chome use.\u201d In 1943, Free Will Baptist\u00a0women asked each family\u00a0for two dollars because of expanded mission work.<\/p>\n
One of the Jehoiada Chests is preserved in the Free Will Baptist\u00a0Historical Collection at Welch\u00a0College Library in Nashville, Tennessee. Whether it is an original or the remodeled version is uncertain.<\/p>\n
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About the Writer: Mary Wisehart served as chairman of the Free Will Baptist Historical Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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