Saturday, March 7, 2009

Remorseful stranger's money gives East Dallas church a 'miracle month'


A mysterious stranger with a conscience left a cashier's check for $3,255 at Dallas' Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, explaining in a note that he was trying to atone for crimes of his past.


Two other times this year, the financially strapped church has had scatterings of $20 bills turn up unexplained in the vestibule, apparently stuffed through a gap in locked front doors.

Though no note came with those donations, the Rev. Canon Victoria Heard speculates they were from the same man.

Regardless, she's grateful.

"It was a godsend, especially in the middle of the winter when our fuel bills are the highest," said Heard, canon-in-residence at the Far East Dallas church.

An envelope containing the cashier's check, $13 in cash and the note was discovered in a back pew on Jan. 11.

The man signed his note with a barely legible "Michael." His last name was on the check, but Heard declined to share it, saying she could not violate a "confession situation."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/DN-mysterygift_07met.ART.State.Edition2.4aac748.html

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