Acclaiming Christ Through Stewardship
Est. 2015
You can view our ACTS 2023 Investment report here.
The ACTS Fund, which stands for “Acclaiming Christ Through Stewardship,” began in 2015 when Midway paid off its 2009 Building Project. When that debt was retired, the operating budget amount used to pay our mortgage was devoted to strategic ministry and mission initiatives.
Thus, an ambitious project was begun: to repay the Lord for his blessings to us by not spending these monies on ourselves but by investing ( $4 million by 2023) the Lord’s resources—as an act of stewardship—to support projects and ministry far beyond this church and beyond most norms.
ACTS is led by a seven-member board that reports regularly to the Midway Session. It focuses on giving grants for four primary initiatives:
1. Pastoral training among nationals from outside the United States;
2. Church planting to establish specifically Reformed and confessional churches;
3. Promoting conferences that further Reformed Worship and Faith; and
4. Translation of sound Reformed theological classics or other materials into other languages.
Gifts may be given to ACTS, and it is guided by a Charter that guides us and holds to our core principles. This ministry arm is founded on Jesus’ teaching that “to whom much is given, much is expected.” And ACTS seeks to sow the seeds of the gospel broadly, seizing the strategic opportunities that the Lord gives us with other partners who share our faith.
The ACTS Fund, which stands for “Acclaiming Christ Through Stewardship,” began in 2015 when Midway paid off its 2009 Building Project. When that debt was retired, the operating budget amount used to pay our mortgage was devoted to strategic ministry and mission initiatives.
Thus, an ambitious project was begun: to repay the Lord for his blessings to us by not spending these monies on ourselves but by investing ( $4 million by 2023) the Lord’s resources—as an act of stewardship—to support projects and ministry far beyond this church and beyond most norms.
ACTS is led by a seven-member board that reports regularly to the Midway Session. It focuses on giving grants for four primary initiatives:
1. Pastoral training among nationals from outside the United States;
2. Church planting to establish specifically Reformed and confessional churches;
3. Promoting conferences that further Reformed Worship and Faith; and
4. Translation of sound Reformed theological classics or other materials into other languages.
Gifts may be given to ACTS, and it is guided by a Charter that guides us and holds to our core principles. This ministry arm is founded on Jesus’ teaching that “to whom much is given, much is expected.” And ACTS seeks to sow the seeds of the gospel broadly, seizing the strategic opportunities that the Lord gives us with other partners who share our faith.
