Stewardship & Church Development
Stewardship is the lifestyle of one who accepts Christ's lordship and walks in partnership with God acting as His agent in managing His affairs on earth. This lifestyle is embraced when one recognises God as Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer and Owner.
Faithful Stewardship is a Christ like lifestyle that emanates from a personal relationship assurance in Jesus Christ. In Christ, we recognise that all that we are and have belongs to Him by acknowledging that our bodies, talents, time, and material resources belong to Him and have been entrusted to us to be used for His glory in partnership with Him.
The purpose of stewardship department is to assist Administration in accomplishing the mission of the church through leadership training and the education of church members in stewardship principles.Its work is integration of faithfulness.
OBJECTIVES
- To articulate a biblical vision of stewardship and the integration of the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of life and all resources and possessions to the Lordship of Jesus.
- To continue the work of tithe and offering education and the implementation of the recommended Seventh-day Adventists Financial system
- To develop concepts and appropriate resources for empowering members and leaders to implement stewardship principles.
- To encourage increased financial responsibility and accountability as well as greater levels of financial self-support and interdependence, individually and corporately.
- To help create an understanding of the balance between regular giving system and special project giving as two dimensions of systematic benevolence which work in harmony.Hence all members are encouraged to support both in order to fulfill the mission of the church.
