Contact the Stewardship Department of the UPCI

Steve Drury moved April, 2002 to St. Louis as Director of the Stewardship Department for the United Pentecostal Church, Intl. For twenty-six years of his ministry he worked at Tupelo Children’s Mansion in Tupelo, Mississippi. He served as President for twenty-three of those years from 1976 to 1999.

While Steve served as President and his wife, Evelyn, as Assistant Secretary/Treasurer of TCMM, twenty-one buildings and over one-hundred thirty acres were added to the campus. He and his wife founded Tupelo Christian Academy, an on campus private K-4 through 12 school in 1979 and a local church, Abundant Life Tabernacle, in 1981. In 1987 they also founded New Beginnings adoption agency and maternity care center. The Drury’s retired from the TCMM and ALT ministries in 1999 and moved to North Little Rock, AR. They still serve on the New Beginnings board of directors with Steve serving as Chairman since its inception.

After serving as pastor of Apostolic Church in North Little Rock, Arkansas for two and one-half years they moved to St. Louis to head up the Stewardship Department. His wife, Evelyn, is serving as Academic Dean at Gateway College of Evangelism and is working on her doctorate in education at Oral Roberts University.

Steve comes to World Evangelism Center here in St. Louis with a track record of fundraising and establishment of planned giving programs while in Tupelo, Mississippi with many permanent funds set aside upon his retirement to help maintain the campus for years to come. Steve has been a licensed minister with the United Pentecostal Church since 1969 and also maintains his LSW as a licensed social worker in the state of Mississippi.
 

   
      
Donna Brown, Executive Secretary

Donna Brown is no stranger to the entire efforts of the United Pentecostal Church, International. She has been an employee of World Evangelism Center since 1974. She served Reverend Nathaniel A. Urshan as his Executive Secretary for his entire tenure as General Superintendent of the UPCI for twenty-four years. Stewardship Department is more than blessed to have her on the team with her years of invaluable talents, abilities, servant spirit, and friendships with the entire United Pentecostal Church International.

She and her husband, Lonnie, are dedicated to the work of God and His kingdom. They have worked tirelessly in the area of Bible Quizzing for over thirty-five years. The greatest credit of all is the reward of their children and their spouses being directly involved in the work of the Kingdom of God… and of course their first grandbaby, Kirenda, born May 29, 2001.

We welcome Donna as Executive Secretary to the Stewardship Department.