By Stacey Tuttle

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about stewardship lately.  I guess that may be natural, given the circumstances.  What circumstances?  Well, for starters, I “raise support” for my job.  This means that the organization I work for doesn’t pay me a salary.  Instead, I get other people who want to support what we do to send money to our organization to fund my work.  As I ask for other people to consider sending money to support me (I mean, technically, I should say they are supporting the work we pray God is doing through us—but in a practical sense, and in a simple sense, they are supporting me) I naturally tend to think a bit about stewardship.

Wikipedia says stewardship is “an ethic that embodies responsible planning and management of resources.”  Webster adds that it’s the “careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care.”  For the purposes of this article, I would put those two together and add mention of the Source of your resources, the One to whom you are responsible to steward well.  Putting it all together, stewardship …