Our Missionary – Elizabeth Stewart BEd
Current Job
Principal, Cornerstone WEC International “Centre for Cross Cultural Studies”, Beugen, Netherlands, www.cornerstonecollege.eu
WEC (World Evangelisation for Christ)
Cornerstone is an international WEC training college and bible school, preparing students from many countries all round the world to share WEC’s vision of cross-cultural sharing of the Gospel, “Love the Gospel, Love the people, Love to Go”.
The students come for 1 or 2 years, often with their husbands or wives and children, all of whom live on site.
Previously
- Born Motalee, Magherafelt
- Trained as a Primary School teacher at Madeley College and Keele University
- Taught in Tobermore PS
- Trained at the Faith Mission Training School, Edinburgh, Belfast Bible College, Global University, Missouri
1981
Commissioned as a missionary in Union Road
1981-2007
Worked as a Missionary in Thailand
Served as Field Director for WEC Thailand
2007-2011
Returned to Ireland to help care for her Dad
Worked in Union Road as Youth worker and taught English as a foreign language in Magherafelt and Dungannon
2012-present
Invited to teach at Cornerstone
Principal since August 2013, during which time “her students greatly appreciate the way she teaches Church Planting from years of experience in the field”. She also teaches Teamwork and Coping with Cross Cultural Ministry.
In Thailand Elizabeth worked in Tak and Kamphaeng Phet.
Teams from Union Road visited Thailand (Tak) in 1996 and 2007. The church helped fund a new church building in Kamphaeng Phet.