Faithful Stewardship 2017 — Winner

Rabina Shrestha, aged 20, was a nursing student who had been volunteering at the church's monthly homeless shelter meal service since 2015. Her essay explored how she had learned stewardship not from a textbook but from watching her mother carefully divide their household's modest resources so that there was always something left to give to the neighbour. "Stewardship," she wrote, "is not what we do with what we have. It is what we do with what we have left over." The judges unanimously selected her essay as the winner.