Upcoming Plants
- Christian Gracia, Lead Pastor
Sending healthy members & resources to plant and strengthen churches in strategic partnerships across the country.
Cornerstone Church is sending a team (in partnership with Hope Church) to Las Vegas, NV to plant King’s City Church with a Salt Company ministry for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Learn how you can connect with, pray for, and support this upcoming church plant.
There are over 400 major universities across North America. Through The Salt Network, we pray we will see a thriving church and college ministry established in all of these major university centers.
UNLV is ripe for gospel outbreak. There has never been a thriving college ministry presence on campus. Plus, it is consistently ranked as the most diverse university in the country. We believe by reaching the 30,000+ students on campus we can not only impact the city but the world!
Left to Right: Alex Burns, Hannah Gracia, Christian Gracia, Maddie Grider, Perry Kallio
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Scroll through the plants to learn more about recent Cornerstone church plants from the past three years.
Eugene is a beautiful city with a college-town culture and a ton of gospel opportunity. Less than 2% of the 20,000+ students at University of Oregon have any connection to church, and we would love to be part of the solution to that!
Syracuse has a metro population of 700,000 people that are from all over the world. In just the last 13 years, Syracuse has welcomed 10,000 refugees from all across the globe, countries like Burma, Somalia, and Sudan. To say that the nations are coming to Syracuse would be an understatement.
Syracuse is also the Medical Hub for central New York. As you can imagine, the medical industry is a premiere staple for the economy.
Syracuse is also a strategic city for reaching the rest of New York state. Sitting in the middle of the state, it is 4 hours from Buffalo, Albany, and New York City. Not only is it central for reaching the state, but it is also 180 miles from Ottawa, Canada, and 250 miles from Montreal, Canada. We believe Syracuse is a key place for reaching the Northeast and beyond.
Even though Columbus is the midwest’s fastest growing city with over 2,200,000 people, it takes great pride in being home to The Ohio State University. Ohio State is the flagship university in the state and attracts students from all around the world seeking a top tier education. It is one of the largest universities in the country with around 60,000 students, 8,000 of them being international students.
Eugene is a beautiful city with a college-town culture and a ton of gospel opportunity. Less than 2% of the 20,000+ students at University of Oregon have any connection to church, and we would love to be part of the solution to that!
Syracuse has a metro population of 700,000 people that are from all over the world. In just the last 13 years, Syracuse has welcomed 10,000 refugees from all across the globe, countries like Burma, Somalia, and Sudan. To say that the nations are coming to Syracuse would be an understatement.
Syracuse is also the Medical Hub for central New York. As you can imagine, the medical industry is a premiere staple for the economy.
Syracuse is also a strategic city for reaching the rest of New York state. Sitting in the middle of the state, it is 4 hours from Buffalo, Albany, and New York City. Not only is it central for reaching the state, but it is also 180 miles from Ottawa, Canada, and 250 miles from Montreal, Canada. We believe Syracuse is a key place for reaching the Northeast and beyond.
Bloomington is home to Indiana University, and it’s your quintessential college town with everything that makes you reminisce on the best days of your life. Planting a kingdom outpost in this city of 135,000 next to the campus is strategic for a handful of reasons.
IU is home to about 50,000 students, 10,000 of which are internationals, making it a natural funnel point for the next generation of the region’s, and even world’s, leaders. At the crossroads of America, it sits in perfect proximity to influence university centers all around it — universities like Purdue and Notre Dame within state lines, and cities like Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago and Nashville, all within four-hour drives.
In terms of politics and worldview, Bloomington is a navy blue dot in a crimson red state. This has produced a fascinating intersection of the extremes of Americana, along with everyone else in between. We believe that if we can rightly contextualize the Gospel and help it take root here, we will be able to spread it everywhere.
There’s a need here. To play off of Jesus’s soil parable, this city and campus are not located in plant-ready ag fields of the Midwest. Rather, they are nestled in the southern forests of the state, meaning a lot of work needs to be done to prepare these fields and plant Gospel seeds. But we are excited to do that because we know that what we seed will undeniably become Gospel growth.
There are over 400 major universities across North America. Through The Salt Network, we pray we will see a thriving church and college ministry established in all of these major university centers. Learn more about our network’s vision and strategy.
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