Stewardship

We’re back! If we’re being honest, twenty-five years is a pretty long time to leave the ‘Gone Fishing’ sign on the Stewardship door, but as of June 2024 we finally traded the fishing rods of a mere function in the Secretariat department for personal, missional and organisational stewardship based on biblical principles with a full-time director and the British Union Conference Stewardship Working Group (B’Stew). Appreciation to the Trans-European Division for their investment in the department. 

Prior to 2024, the last time the department was fully functional was the days of dial-up internet and chunky monitors; so we claimed Joel 2:25 (NKJV): ‘I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.’ We aren’t saying that the last two and a half decades have been a plague, but we have tried to make up for lost time!

Buckle up – it’s time to see what happened when a quarter-century of grace met a brand-new ‘God First’-driven chapter of stewardship.

Conclusion

‘Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness’ (Psalm 115:1, NLT).

Further information

If you would like to know more about the impact of the Stewardship Department over the past 18 months, please click on our impact report, ‘From Dormancy to Discipleship’, on our Stewardship page. Please refer to the same page for the 2026-2030 strategic orientation, ‘Multiplying the Mission’