Ten Commandments Project Too Successful
A ministry that set out to “renew America one child at a time” by paying young people $10 each to memorize and recite the Ten Commandments has run out of money.
“We are victims of success,” said 76-year-old George Kelley, a retired Nashville flower shop owner who has put his Ten Commandments Project on hold “until the Lord provides additional money.”
About 15,000 “memorization affidavits” from children flooded the Kelleys’ mailbox after Associated Press reported on the project in December.
The ministry plans to honor children’s letters received through Saturday. Kelley said the ministry had distributed about $75,000 to children from 1997 to December. Since the AP report, it has written about 12,500 more checks.
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