Howard Dayton

Howard 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 anda half years as a naval officer. In 1969 Howard developed The Caboose, a successful railroad-themed restaurant, in Orlando, FL. In 1972 he began his commercial real estate development career, 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, Howard's life was profoundly changed. The Lord gave him a passion to share the life-changing principles he discovered, resulting in the authorship of three books, including Your Money Counts, Free and Clear, and Your Money Map his latest.

Howard founded Crown Ministries in 1985 and developed a remarkably effective small group financial study. Howard Dayton has served, without salary [ cite web | title=Bible requires a servant’s heart and a commitment to excellence | work=The Barrick Report | url=http://www.barrickreport.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=103 | accessdate=2006-05-22] , as CEO of Crown Financial Ministries since 1985, at which time he founded Crown Ministries in Longwood FL. 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 vision of Crown Financial Ministries is to teach God's financial principles to 300 million people worldwide by 2015. Howard served as Crown's CEO until 2007 when he transitioned from that role to invest more time writing and speaking on behalf of Crown.

Howard and his wife, Beverley, have two adult children and reside in Gainesville, Georgia.

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