Mar 5: Youth and Women’s Group are canceled due to weather.
Feb 5
No Cornerstone Youth
Feb 5 » Feb 12
Mar 5: Youth and Women’s Group are canceled due to weather.
Feb 5
Feb 5 » Feb 12
Sending healthy members & resources to plant and strengthen churches in strategic partnerships across the country.
Cornerstone Church is partnering to plant The Way Church in Austin, TX with a Salt Company ministry for the University of Texas. 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.
Austin, TX is one of the fastest-growing, most influential cities in the nation, yet downtown Austin—where over 250,000 people work and live—has only 4 gospel-believing churches. Austin is a city of contrasts…tech professionals, artists, and innovators, alongside the homeless and trafficked. We believe God has called us to the urban core to help every person—in every high-rise, alleyway, and dorm room–to find their way back to Him.
The University of Texas brings over 50,000 students to the heart of Austin. The gospel opportunity is massive but largely unmet, with only a handful of church-based ministries meaningfully engaging the campus.
Left to Right: Alex Burns, Hannah Gracia, Christian Gracia, Maddie Grider, Perry Kallio
Check back later 😎
Scroll through the plants to learn more about recent Cornerstone church plants from the past years.
Penn State University, with its origins as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, has a legacy of raising laborers. We aim to build on this history and the 48,000-strong student body to prepare workers for an eternal harvest. Located in Happy Valley, State College is home to over 158,000 people who need the lasting joy found in the gospel of Jesus.
Arizona State University, originally founded as the Territorial Normal School in 1885, has grown into one of the largest public universities in the country. We hope to build on this legacy and reach ASU’s 80,000+ students with the good news of Jesus—preparing workers for an eternal harvest. Located in the heart of the Phoenix metro area, Tempe is home to over 210,000 people who are in deep darkness and in need of the light of the Gospel.
Las Vegas is the entertainment capital of the world. It is a globally known city with the notorious reputation of being “Sin City.” We desire to see that change for the glory of God through the explosion of the gospel. The Vegas Valley is home to nearly three million people, most of whom were not born in the city. As one of the most unreached and unchurched cities in America, we believe Las Vegas is primed for a movement of God that will spread out from its city limits and into the ends of the earth.
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.
Access all our available resources like sermons, podcasts, reading plans, and classes.
The Stories of Cornerstone series is dedicated to showing how God is moving in the lives of members.
Learn more about Cornerstone’s values, ministries and staff.
Find ways to get connected here. You can also sign up for the newsletter to stay in the loop!
Apr 18
Apr 19
Apr 20
