THIS WEEK AT CORNERSTONE
The MEN AT THE CROSS event is this SATURDAY 8:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at Grace Church in Maryland Heights. Just a few tickets left. Men, if you bring your son, they can get in for free and will have their own special time at this event. Tickets are $29.00 per person – scholarships are also available. Contact John Ritland (314-374-9478) or Richard Ruiz (314-221-3381)
Vacation Bible School is next week – July 26-30, 6:30-8:30 p.m. If you haven’t already, sign your kids up and avoid the lines; bring your neighbor’s kids; bring your nieces and nephews. See Children’s Ministry below for more details. This year the children will be collecting money for Victor Zubarev, a church planter in Moscow.
The first annual EFCA Missions Golf Tournament will be held next Monday, July 26th, at the Crescent Farms Golf Club near Eureka. Cost per player is $110. Non-golfers can participate by coming to the luncheon at 1:00. Luncheon tickets are $25 and a RSVP is needed. Proceeds go to local EFCA church planting efforts and to train EFCA missionaries overseas. Volunteers ♥ are needed to help with tournament registration, sell mulligans, and drink carts (lunch is complimentary). Please contact the Cornerstone church office (314-968-9808) or Jack Kennedy (636-399-3083) if you want to come.
A soccer tournament for refugees and immigrants will be held in the St. Louis area on Saturday, July 31st, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are already teams from Bhutan, Congo, Burma, etc. We are looking for teams that exist or players that would like to join a team. It will be held at the Midwest Soccer Academy, 5247 Fyler Avenue, 63139 – Registration Fee is $10/person. $5 returned the day of the tournament – Registration is not confirmed until payment is received. (Make checks payable to First Free) -Register online or in person at Oasis International, 5035 Gravois Road, 63116 – 314-353-3800 Tournament Type: Round Robin (Each group has a maximum of 6 teams) Groups: A, B (18+ years, 5 plus keepers) and C (35+ years, small goals, 5 players, no keeper) Awards Ceremony, Drawing and Picnic: at Tower Grove Park immediately following the tournament. Website: http://sites.google.com/site/stlouisworldamateurcup For More info: email stlwac@gmail.com, or call 636-779-2105
Cornerstone will have a baptism on Sunday, August 1st, 12:30 through 3:00 p.m. at the Matush’s, 1455 Cragwold in Kirkwood. We will have a potluck lunch so bring a meat to grill AND a side dish or dessert according to: A-J veggie dish/salad; K-R fruit dish/salad; S-Z dessert – and bring a swimsuit and towel if you want to swim. We will also have a report from Mike and Nolan Connelly about their Mexico mission trip in June with the Brockmans, and from the Moldova mission team. Five people have requested to be baptized. If you would like to be identified with Christ in baptism, please let Pastor Terry or the office know of your interest.
♥ We just received a new Adopt-A-Platoon assignment for an Army Platoon of 39 soldiers (including 3 women) assigned in Iraq until January. An updated list of requested items is available by the donation basket in the Welcome Center. Call Marta Guckes with questions (314-518-4310). We will do a cookie baking day on Sunday, August 15, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Come and help write notes to troops, bake and pack cookies.
STILL NEEDED! ♥ First E Free Church has a housing need for a missionary family of three (with a small dog) for one year. Contact Cathy Nelson cnelson@efree.org or 636.779.2187.
Camp Cornerstone will be at Turkey Hill Ranch Camp on August 27 through 29. Signups began last Sunday, July 11th.
LAST REMINDER! The Lost and Found basket is full. Please go through it to see if anything is yours. All items will be donated next week.
St. Paul’s E Free Church, 9801 Olive Blvd., corner of Olive and Warson Road, will have a rummage sale Saturday, August 7th, 8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Their flyer is posted on our hall bulletin board.
CONTINUING BIBLE STUDIES – Other studies are listed under the gender specific ministries below.
Rich Cartier leads a class on 1st Corinthians every Thursday evening from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the church office. The plans are to continue this class into the Fall. Rich will also teach this class during the 2nd hour on Sunday mornings through the summer.
The Saturday morning Barnabas Project, will NOT meet this Saturday due to the Men at the Cross event that morning.
MISSIONS
Please be in prayer for the children who attended the camps in Moldova this month. Pray that they will find mentors and churches to continue their Bible studies and grow in Christ.
MEN’S MINISTRY
Every Friday at 7:00 a.m. a Men’s Bible Study meets at First Watch in Kirkwood. The current study is on “The Attributes of God”. All men are welcome to attend.
Father-Son camping and float trip is planned for Friday, August 7 through Sunday, August 8. Leave church at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and return by 4:00 p.m. on Sunday – or you can float on Saturday without camping overnight. Boys without fathers are welcome – men are needed as stand-in fathers♥. Contact Mark Kamphoefner if you are interested – 314.821.9488 or kamphoefner@sbcglobal.net.
STUDENT MINISTRY
Immanuel will have their Vacation Bible School on August 9 through 13. Our Student Ministry will be heading it up and will need helpers. ♥ Contact Aaron.
College Students! A Bible study class specifically for you meets each Sunday morning during the 10:45 a.m. hour in the Fireplace Room. There is also a Bible study that meets every Sunday evening at the Connelly’s home, 2147 Avalon Ridge Circle, Fenton, 63026, through June and July. Come, learn and participate.
The High School Student Ministry is going on a summer retreat from Friday, July 30th, thru Sunday, August 1st. They will travel to Kansas City to attend a Kansas City Royals baseball game, go to Worlds of Fun and have a special guest teacher.
CHILDREN’S MINISTRY
Signups are now open for this summer’s Vacation Bible School – July 26-30 – “A Celtic Celebration”. All children between age 3 and 5th grade (in the Fall) are invited to participate. Everyone is invited to help ♥ in some way – we especially need teenagers. VERY IMPORTANT! – Everyone who signed up to work is asked to attend a meeting this Sunday, July 25th, 10:20 a.m., in the Junior Church Room. We also need people ♥ to help set up for VBS on Sunday, July 25, beginning at 3:00 p.m.
♥ Our need for VBS craft projects this year are cereal boxes and aluminum can tabs. Bring EMPTY ALUMINUM SOFT DRINK CANS (no rinsing required) and our kids will take off the tab tops and cans to be recycled. Place your donations in the containers so marked by the coat rack this Sunday. The tab tops will be used as wall hangers.
Another VBS need ♥ is bringing treats to the closing program for VBS on Friday, July 30th. Please sign up on the sheet at the VBS and Camp Cornerstone table. Everyone is welcome to come even if you don’t have kids enrolled. Come join the fun and see what the kids did all week!
Preschool and Junior Church needs more help♥ on the following dates: a 3rd set of hands at 9:00 a.m. in the 2-year-old class on August 1st and 22nd; a 3rd set of hands in the 3 & 4-year-old class on August 22nd; two helpers at 10:45 a.m. in the 2’s thru 4’s preschool class, and a teacher at 10:45 a.m. in Junior Church, both on August 22nd.
ATTENTION SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS! Anne is back and she has put more meetings on the calendar!
Tuesday, August 31, 7:00 p.m. Second hour teachers at Anne’s house
Thursday, September 9, 7:00 p.m. First hour preschool teachers who cannot come on Saturday the 11th, Junior Church Room
Saturday, September 11, 9:30 a.m. First hour preschool teachers who cannot come the morning of the 9th, Junior Church Room
Saturday, September 11, 10:30 a.m. Child Protection Class in Room 107
MOPS (Mothers of PreSchoolers) continue to meet on the first and third Thursday of each month. Their summer program consists of meeting at local parks and includes a family picnic on Sunday, July 25th, 5:00 p.m. at Crestwood Park.
♥ If you love to cuddle babies and play with toddlers, we need a few more people to volunteer for our Nursery on Sunday mornings. Call or email the office if you can help.
THANK YOU!!
Dear Cornerstone Family, Thanks so much for the cards, visits, and prayers before, during and after my hip replacement surgery. You are such a blessing! Continued prayers are always needed, but I must say I am doing great. I more often than not take off across the room without my walker! Love to you all, Susan Ritland
Dear Cornerstone Family, Your love and concern for me in the passing of my son, Mark, lifted me up in a hard time. You blessed me exceedingly. Thank you for the beautiful flowers you sent, in my favorite fall colors. How did you know? .. I love you all very much, Marilyn Brown
To our Cornerstone Family, A special thanks to Pastor Terry for his visit following my surgery. And thanks for all the phone calls, cards and prayers from the congregation. I felt your love and prayers. In his love, Joyce Clark
PLEASE PRAY
As many of you already have heard, tragically, the young man who was found drowned in a lake near St. Peters on Sunday as last weekend’s newspapers and news stations reported, was Michael Kowalewski, John and Joyce Clark’s 22-year-old grandson. Please keep his parents, Linda and Chester, and the entire Clark family in your prayers as they mourn this loss. Visitation is today at Baue Funeral Home, 3950 W. Clay, St. Charles – 2:00 pm for the family and 3:00 pm for everyone else. Funeral mass will be tomorrow, 10:00 a.m., at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, 2 Seton Ct., St. Charles, MO 63303 (636.946.6717).
Hello Friends,
Please add Jim’s dad to your prayer list. He is still having an extremely difficult time coming to terms with Doolie’s death. Transfers between denial and anger. We have extended our stay here for another week to be with him. Any and all prayer is essential! The enemy is bearing down hard on him. Pray for Jesus to do battle with the enemy on his behalf please. Thanks to all, Deb Matush
Natalie Dare is scheduled to have surgery on Monday, August 2, to remove her tonsils and adenoids due to a recent diagnosis of severe sleep apnea. Please pray that 1) the surgery goes well and without complications, 2) recovery is quick and with minimal pain, and 3) surgery cures her sleep apnea without further need for intervention.
Pray for Al Burkhard as he is fighting infections in his body following recent surgery.
Continue to pray for Karen Felton, Cornerstone missionaries, our Russian congregation, marriages, students and those going through personal trials and health issues; plus Immanuel, Pastor Todd and their congregation.
Reminder: Our Monday evening prayer group meets from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary (however, they will NOT meet next Monday due to VBS); and, the 50/50 prayer group meets every Thursday morning from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. in the Fireplace Room. Everyone is welcome to join either or both groups.
| If and when you have prayer requests, be sure to call or send them to the church office by Wednesday Noon so they can be included in this communiqué and in Sunday’s bulletin. |
SERVING CORNERSTONE
Please consider being a volunteer at Cornerstone. Sign up through the Welcome sheet in your Sunday bulletin or call or email the church office to joanne@cornerstonestaff.org . Wherever you see this symbol “♥” in this publication, it indicates volunteer opportunities available at Cornerstone. Contact the office to find where you can help. You are what makes Cornerstone thrive so come, volunteer and help us grow.
REMINDER! ♥ We continually collect used laser and ink jet printer cartridges and old cell phones for our silent recycling fundraiser – place them in the basket located by the elevator in the foyer.