Marvin
Steinert
A family’s secret of success
Marvin and Nadene Steinert (ctr.), son Max Steinert and wife Charlotte (left), and son Randy Steinert and wife Delores (right)
“My dad taught me tithing,” says
Marvin Steinert.
He remembers, at age 14, seeing
his father Emanuel support the
family of four on just $25 a week.
Yet every Saturday his father
would put $2.50 into an old
Calumet Baking Powder can for
the collection plate on Sunday.
“It makes me teary-eyed thinking
about it,” Marvin says. “I knew
how badly he needed that $2.50.”
His father died just two years later.
They never had a father-son talk
about honoring God’s command to
give. Marvin learned by example.
“He never said anything to me.
I just saw what he did. And the
minute I started making money, I
started giving,” Marvin says.
Marvin met his wife, Nadene,
at the 1940 Frontier Days Rodeo
and they married two years later.
They have maintained a lifelong
discipline of giving, targeting their
gifts to the need rather than their
personal interests.
Though in his 10th decade, Marvin
goes to his office once a week,
where a granddaughter helps him
oversee the family holdings.
He continues to give generously
to Haggai Institute, and has
already passed on to his children
what he learned from his father.
Marvin and Nadene’s sons have
joined them as co-sponsors of a
Haggai Institute session, and one
of their grandchildren has worked
as a volunteer at the Mid-Pacific
Center.
With the family’s involvement
now spanning three generations,
Marvin says, “I never dreamed
we’d be able to give as much as we
have.”
Giving may have been the key to
his success. As Nadene says, “The
Lord knew who He could trust
with the money.”
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