World’s Largest Financial Ministry Cofounder Howard Dayton

is Guest Speaker at Emmanuel College

(FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga.)—The cofounder of the world’s largest financial ministry is the guest speaker at the weekly convocation service at Emmanuel College on Tuesday, Nov. 17.

Howard Dayton founded Crown Ministries in 1985 and developed a remarkably effective small group financial study. Crown Ministries merged with Larry Burkett’s Christian Financial Concepts in September 2000 to form Crown Financial Ministries, the world's largest financial ministry.

The mission of Crown is equipping people worldwide to learn, apply, and teach God's financial principles so they may know Christ more intimately, be free to serve Him, and help fund the Great Commission. The radio program about how to manage money according to the Bible airs on more than 1,000 stations reaching about two million people per week.

Dayton was born on October 7, 1943, in Daytona Beach, Florida. After graduating from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in 1967, he served two and a half years as a naval officer. In 1969, he developed a successful railroad-themed restaurant in Orlando, Florida. He began his commercial real estate development career in 1972, specializing in office development in the Central Florida area.

In 1974 after a business partner challenged him to study the Scriptures to discover what God teaches about handling money, Dayton’s life was profoundly changed. The Lord gave him a passion to share the life-changing principles he discovered, resulting in the authorship of four books, including Your Money: Frustration or Freedom, Your Money Counts, Free and Clear, and his most recent, Your Money Map.

Dayton as his wife Beverly married in 1971 and they have two children, Matthew (married to Michelle) and Danielle (married to Kyle Hasbrouck). He and Mrs. Dayton reside in Gainesville, Georgia, and have just completed leading their 55th small group.

Please visit www.crown.org for more details.