Stephen M. Drury
1029 Rosary Tree Court
Florissant, MO 63042
314-837-7304 Ext 309 Work
Age 65, Born Frankfort, IN, 2-28-1948
Raised Kokomo, IN and Indianapolis, IN
Education:
 1966 Graduated Arlington High School, Indianapolis
 1969 Graduated Apostolic Bible Institute, Bachelor of Theology
 2003 – Graduate – Lifestyle Giving Mentorship Program
 2013 – Certified as Fund Raising Professional with School of Philanthropy,
Indiana University
Positions of Responsibility:
1969 – 1970
Youth Pastor Dallas, TX
1970 – 1973 Tupelo Children’s Mansion Ministries, Tupelo, MS
Office Manager
Food Service Manager
Director of Residence
1973 – 1974 Southeast United Pentecostal Church, Oklahoma City, OK
Assistant Pastor
Choir Director
Property Manager
1974 – 1976 United Pentecostal Church, Hennepin, OK
Pastor
1976 – 1999 Tupelo Children’s Mansion Ministries, Tupelo, MS
President
1979 – 1999 Tupelo Christian Academy, Tupelo, MS
Founder and President
1981 – 1999 Abundant Life Tabernacle, Tupelo, MS
Founder and Pastor
1982 – Present Licensed LSW, Licensed Social Worker in Mississippi
1987 – Present New Beginnings Child Placement Services, Tupelo, MS
Founder and Chairman (Retired as chairman January 2010 still serve on board)
1999 – 2002 Apostolic Church, North Little Rock, AR
Pastor
2001- 2006
Committee member and Fund raiser, Mercy Medical Network (sending medical
teams to Pakistan, Central America, Haiti, Afghanistan, and anyplace where there are
earthquakes or other major disasters like NYC on 911)
2002 – Present United Pentecostal Church, International, Hazelwood, MO 63042
Director of Stewardship
President of United Pentecostal Foundation (Founding President)
2002 – 2006 Director of Advancement
Urshan Graduate School of Theology, Florissant, MO
2006 – 2010
Financial Advisor – Board of Education, United Pentecostal Church International
Financial Advisor – Board of Regents, United Pentecostal Church International
2002 – 2010 Marketing Director, Minister’s Retirement Fund ($35 M fund for ministers who
contribute to their retirement)
2003 – Present
External Board Member, Faith Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church,
Manchester, CT
2011 – Present Founding President of United Pentecostal Church Loan Fund
2011 – Started United Insurance Solutions for United Pentecostal Church and serve as Director
While in Mississippi I also served the district:
 1977 – 1999
Section 2 Secretary
 1978 – 1999
Secretary Long Range Planning Committee
 1984 – 1999
Secretary District Men’s Ministry
 1987 – 1999
Chairman District Finance Committee
My wife and I both graduated from Apostolic Bible Institute in St. Paul, MN. I am a
LSW (Licensed Social Worker) in Mississippi, with 45 years of pastoral and
administrative experience, including 26 years at Tupelo Children’s Mansion. My wife
and I co-founded Tupelo Christian Academy, Abundant Life Tabernacle, Erwin
Maternity Care Center and New Beginnings International all in Tupelo, Mississippi. I
also co-founded “Worth The Wait” abstinence program that is now a national program
used by 4,500 United Pentecostal Churches for the youth.
While in Tupelo, we led the ministry of Tupelo Children’s Mansion from one ministry with a
campus of seven buildings and twenty-two acres, to four ministries with twenty eight buildings
and one hundred eighty acres. We founded and administrated a Christian school, Tupelo Christian
Academy, for twenty-one years. The school had an enrollment of 190 students, with over 90% of
the graduates continuing on to college. In addition, we founded and pastored Abundant Life
Tabernacle for eighteen years, with the congregation averaging two hundred forty when we
retired from the ministries in Tupelo. When we retired from these ministries there was only forty
thousand dollars owed on the entire increase of property and buildings at TCM. We left there
because we were exhausted after raising over 1,000 children and all of the other things we
managed.
One of the passions is still New Beginnings International Children’s and Family Services. We
founded and chaired the New Beginnings International ministry (www.nbicfs.org) a ministry
independent from the other ministries we led. New Beginnings includes the “Erwin Maternity
Care Center” (for girls in crisis pregnancy – the only such facility in the state of Mississippi) and
the New Beginnings Adoption Agency for 26 years. Evelyn and I both continue to serve on the
board for lifetime. This is the only adoption agency and maternity home in the United
Pentecostal Church organization of over 4,500 churches in North America. The agency has
helped over 450 babies to be saved from abortion and placed over 550 children in forever families
in the last twenty six years. NBI is now accredited with the National Counsel of Accreditation
and as of January 2009 have established a relationship with the nation of Nepal and opened our
first overseas orphanage for adopting 30 children per year from their county to the United States.
2008 we also were key to forming the National Christian Adoption Fellowship. This fellowship
is a coop with 9 other Christian adoption agencies in which we can share 17 countries together for
families working with each agency to adopt from.
Upon retirement from TCM, we were given the keys to the city of Tupelo, MS, the city declared a
day in our appreciation that was celebrated by the city officials. We also were honored by a
special accommodation by the joint state houses of the senate and representatives. You can put
our names in on the web and pull up the honorarium from both houses of the legislature in
Mississippi. We were honored with 7 of the 9 justices of the Mississippi Supreme Court coming
to our retirement celebration or the special session when I was honored as social worker of the
year in Mississippi, including the chief Justice.
We went to Arkansas to pastor a church that was hurting from a problem they experienced. We
missed administrative work and accepted a new position in St. Louis with our International
Church organization. We are now leading the Stewardship Department of the United Pentecostal
Church International, President of United Pentecostal Church Loan Fund and President of the
United Pentecostal Foundation..
Presently I served as:
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Director of Stewardship Department (International in scope)
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President, United Pentecostal Foundation (International in scope)
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President, United Pentecostal Church Loan Fund
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Secretary/Treasurer of United Insurance Solutions, Inc.
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Founding Board Member New Beginnings International (National and International in
scope)
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External Board Member, Faith Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church, Manchester, CT