Outreach
At Cornerstone, we are passionate about outreach that embodies the gospel in both word and deed at every level of our church family. Our vision for outreach includes ministering to the individual, the family, our Care Groups, our church family, and the community.
outreach visions
Individual Outreach
Our desire is that every individual at Cornerstone would be passionately putting the gospel on display by daily speaking it and living it out. We know that this is only possible when individuals are constantly preaching the gospel to themselves and allowing it to overflow out of them. When we are consumed with Jesus Christ and His Gospel, then we will find ourselves thinking about it, sharing it, and living it.
Family Outreach
Our vision for outreach includes a vision for family outreach. Our desire is that every household would together serve as a picture of the beauty and power of the Gospel. We see hospitality as a key way to connect with people and bless them in word and deed. Hospitality allows a family to invite unsaved family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to experience a home where relationships and individuals are consumed with Jesus Christ. Our desire is not only for families to invite unbelievers into the home but as a family to go out and engage in reaching and ministering to the community. As a family, we have the potential to reach other families who don’t know Christ.
Care Group Outreach
Our desire for each of our Care Groups is that they would see themselves as an extension and ambassadors for Christ and Cornerstone. We want to encourage the members of each Care Group to invite individuals and families to experience the gospel through Care Groups. Often, it is in the more relaxed setting of Care Group that unbelievers can come face to face with Christ and the message of the gospel as they see it lived out in the members of the group.
Church-Wide Outreach
As part of our vision, we seek to participate in strategic outreach events that bring unbelievers into an experience of the gospel. We do this through occasional evangelistic services, key outreach events like public preaching and ongoing ministries like our food pantry and Agape Team ministry. We also see our ongoing ministry to and through our missionaries as a way that Cornerstone is able to engage in global outreach. Some outreach methods we have used include mass mailers, door to door evangelism, and having books like “The Case for Easter” available to our congregation. Outreach events include events like our our Apologetics Conference and the Festival of Treats.
Community Outreach
We extend the front porch of our church, reach out to our community and extended neighborhoods, and to the surrounding cities with a warm meal and the Good News, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This ministry brings food to the body and the soul so that the burdened and the hopeless join with us in the journey from brokenness to wholeness through the power of the Gospel.
local outreach
Community Outreach
Angel Tree – provides Christmas gifts for children in need who have a parent in prison
Evangelism – individuals and Care Groups reaching out to others within their spheres of influence
Hospitality – encouraging church members to reach out to the people in their neighborhood
Ministering to the Elderly – convalescent home visitations
Operation Christmas Child (OCC) – shoeboxes filled with gifts to bless needy children around the world
Path of Life – monthly serving of food by Care Groups at a local shelter
Rebirth Homes – a two-year Christian-based program providing housing for victims of human trafficking
Thanksgiving Food Baskets – baskets filled with food items for needy families in our community
Special Events
Christmas Play – our annual play presented by the Drama Ministry
Conferences – past conferences: Former Adventist (2016), Apologetics (2015)
Easter Breakfast – our annual Easter Breakfast on Easter Sunday during our normal 9:00 am Sunday School hour
Festival of Treats – our annual outreach event on Halloween
Ministry Fair – to invite people to join us in ministry, and to display God’s work through His people
missions
Missionary Service Teams are small groups from our Cornerstone family that travel each year to serve and bless our missionaries around the world. These teams are usually sent out during the summer months and spend anywhere from one to two weeks in the field engaging in preaching-teaching, training, evangelism, youth programs, conferences, construction, and anything else that will allow us to participate in the ministry of our missionary families at the same time serving their home and ministry needs.
Missionary Service Teams
rebirth homes
The vision for Rebirth Homes started in 2008 when founder Debbie Martis heard about the staggering statistic that 27 million people are enslaved in human trafficking around the world. After years of prayer, Debbie was moved to action. In 2012, God gave her the vision to find homes that have been abandoned, rebuild them and use them for lives of human trafficking victims to be redeemed.
Rebirth Homes exists to come alongside human trafficking victims as they become empowered women. Rebirth Homes mission is to redeem the lives of human trafficking victims through a holistic healing approach that combines spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental healing in a 24-month program.
We see the women who have been empowered and equipped through Rebirth Homes being the future leaders of the program. Our long-term vision is to provide healing and restoration to 1 million victims of human trafficking by opening homes/facilities in the United States and globally. It is a very big vision and we believe it can happen if we work together to eradicate human trafficking. We invite every person we have the opportunity to share with to join in the fight against human trafficking.
If you are interested in becoming involved, please email info@rebirthhomes.com.