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Sending healthy members & resources to plant and strengthen churches in strategic partnerships around the world. What is the Lord calling you to today?
Jesus called us in Luke 10:2 to pray for laborers in the harvest field. Learn more about ways to pray for the nations and specific people and places Cornerstone is connected to.
Thousands of international students come to study here in Ames. 8% of Ames residents are international; 12% of ISU. That’s 4,000+ students and professors from over 100 countries.
Cornerstone Global’s vision is for each of our overseas workers to know and be known by other members at Cornerstone.
As members of Cornerstone give, they participate in global missions. 14% of what is given to the Cornerstone general fund goes towards global missions.
Cornerstone provides many opportunities to become more acquainted with international sending partnerships and God’s heart for the world throughout the Scriptures.
With both short-term and long-term opportunities, there are many contexts in which you can be sent.
Jesus called us in Luke 10:2 to pray for laborers in the harvest field. Learn more about ways to pray for the nations and specific people and places Cornerstone is connected to.
Jesus called us in Luke 10:2 to pray for laborers in the harvest field. Learn more about ways to pray for the nations and specific people and places Cornerstone is connected to.
Luke 10:2 encourages us to pray for God to raise up laborers for the harvest. Set your smartphone alarm for 10:02 everyday to pray for the nations.
Prayer Cast
Prayer videos for individual countries
The Joshua Project
A database of unreached people groups
Operation World
Pray for a country a day for a year.
Window on the World
A kid-friendly version of Operation World
We gather periodically for a free lunch on Sunday afternoons to hear stories from global partners and missionaries about how God is at work around the world. It’s a chance to learn, celebrate, and discover how you can be part of what God is doing among the nations.
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Learn more about those sent from Cornerstone and how you can be praying for them
Thousands of international students come to study here in Ames. To be salt and light to the ends of the earth just by crossing the street is an incredible opportunity.
8% of Ames are internationals
12% of ISU are internationals
4000+ students & professors from over
100 countries
Cornerstone Global’s vision is for each of our overseas workers to know and be known by other members at Cornerstone.
If you would be willing to come alongside others in caring for an overseas worker:
Get prayer requests from an overseas worker either through their email updates or by directly asking them for prayer requests. Invite your connection group to pray as a group once a month for one of our overseas workers.
Have personal conversations with an overseas worker. Consider a Zoom call with them once a season or a couple of times a year. Write e-mails or letters once a month or a season to let them know you are praying for them.
Commit sending a care package or Amazon gift card to an overseas worker once a year or more and/or consider being a financial partner with them.
Do you have resources, like housing or an extra vehicle, you can share with workers when they’re stateside?
As members of Cornerstone give, they participate in global missions. 14% of what is given to the Cornerstone general fund goes towards global missions.
Our encouragement for every Cornerstone member is to first give to the general fund so leadership can rightly appropriate funds to the areas needed. Then, as you look to give further, consider giving to a designated fund.
Those who give financially to the Cornerstone general fund participate together in what God is doing globally and can trust that those dollars are stewarded well.
The Cornerstone General fund allocates $600,000 each year to global missions. This means in 2021-22, 14 cents of every dollar given to the Cornerstone general fund goes toward Global Sending. Some of these activities include giving to outside organizations, members involved in ministries around the globe, and ministries that Cornerstone is directly involved with. We also receive $40,000 in raised funds to aid this budget.
Efforts include:
Supporting over 40 Overseas Goers from our church and network doing university church planting in East Asia and Southeast Asia
Supporting over 20 Cornerstone member missionaries throughout the world and near culture missionaries in Central Asia
Mobilizing US churches to adopt university cities around the world.
Efforts include:
Supporting the work of Serve India ministries
Supporting Albanian pastors
Support for pastor training and networking for Zambian pastors
Efforts include:
Supporting the Hope Center in Zambia
Supporting The Light Center in Thailand
Supporting Mission Starfish in Haiti
Supporting Jonathan’s House
Efforts include:
The ministry of International Friendship Connection (IFC)
Efforts include:
Trip scholarships for high school, Salt Company, and community trips globally
Efforts include:
Staffing and administration for global missions as we help our church and network churches have and live out a global vision
Each year we will have an Introduction to Missions Crash Course. In this course, we will explore God’s heart for the world throughout the Scriptures, strategies for global missions, and your role in that global mission. We also provide regular “Lunch & Learn” meetings where you can get to know one of our partners and locations after second service.
April 27, 11:45a
Equipping Room
Join us for lunch to hear firsthand stories of how God is moving in South Africa, Toronto, and Nepal through our short-term teams and long-term partners. We’ll celebrate what he’s done—including how your gifts to Restoring Hope International have made an impact in South Africa—and learn how we can be part of this work moving forward!
With both short-term and long-term opportunities, there are many contexts in which you can be sent.
We have an incredible opportunity in our day and age to be exposed to the needs of the world and to have our personal and family’s worldview shaped by being exposed to people of other cultures. Cornerstone offers numerous cultural exposure trips for our members to be a blessing to our overseas partners and to learn from the faith of our dear brothers and sisters overseas.
With over 3 billion in the people in the world that have restricted or low access to the Gospel, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. As a church, we desire to send healthy members into cross-cultural settings to bring the Gospel to the next generation of university students. Learn more about the long-term opportunities through Campus to Campus and the IMB to work overseas.
Restoring Hope Village is a group of homes in South Africa for orphaned, neglected or abused children, to give them a place where they feel loved. The goal is to break the cycle of sickness and death, and to meet physical, spiritual and emotional needs. This trip is great for anyone who would like to experience life in another culture while impacting the lives of children in an orphanage.
Important dates:
Oct 1 – Applications close
Nov 1 – First half of trip deposit due
Dec 1 – Last half of trip deposit due
We send groups of student leaders from The Salt Company to college campuses internationally each Summer! Be on the lookout for more info from Salt staff
A publication of Cornerstone Global to tell the stories of overseas workers and the church around the globe.
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