THIS WEEK AT CORNERSTONE
Cornerstone will have a baptism in early August. If you would like to be identified with Christ in baptism, please let Pastor Terry or the office know of your interest.
Remember to sign up for the first annual EFCA Missions Golf Tournament which will be held on Monday, July 26, 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 the 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).
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 begin this Sunday, July 11th.
The Lost and Found basket is full. Please go through it to see if anything in it is yours. All remaining items will be donated in a few weeks. By the way, does anyone know to whom the 3 plastic bags of clothing and hanging coats belong to? They had a name on them a month ago and were moved to the coat rack because no one picked them up. We plan to donate them if no one claims them soon.
Congratulations to Chad and Dana Stuemke on the birth of William August on Friday, July 2nd, at 8:40 a.m. He weighed 8 lbs, 1oz. “All is perfect!” mom says. A care calendar has been set up for their family if you would like to bring them a meal. Go to http://www.carecalendar.org/logon/43407 and enter CALENDAR ID : 43407 and SECURITY CODE : 9915.
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, open to men and women, led by Pastor Terry, meets from 7:30 to 8:30 in the Fireplace Room using the Student Copy of the Men At The Cross One2Won cross training study guide. We encourage discipleship among ladies/young ladies as well as men/young men and this study helps each of us become familiar with and comfortable using a great tool for one-to-one or one-to-two discipleship. It is an extremely practical way of equipping men and women of Cornerstone to multiply disciple makers.
MISSIONS
Cornerstone people on the Moldova missions trip are Ion, Svetlana and Emy Cheptene, Anne Parker, Oleg and Irina Podgorny and Derrick Staten. The first group left last Saturday, July 3 and returns Sunday, July 11 – the second group leaves July 10 and returns July 18. Please be in prayer for this trip and for everyone involved, including the Moldovan children who will be attending the camps.
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.
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.
MEN AT THE CROSS is coming to St Louis – Saturday, July 24, 8:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at Grace Church in Maryland Heights. Posters with details of this event are located throughout the church. Cornerstone has purchased tickets so please see John Ritland or Richard Ruiz if you want to go. Tickets are $29.00 per person – scholarships are available.
Father-Son camping and float trip is planned for Friday, August 6th through Sunday, August 8th. You can also come on Saturday without camping Friday and Saturday nights. 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
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. Thanks to all who have signed up to work so far. You will receive a reminder post card confirming your assignment in the mail soon. VERY IMPORTANT! – For All VBS workers – we need you to attend a meeting on Sunday, July 25th, 10:20 a.m., in the Junior Church Room.
Our needs for VBS craft projects this year are cereal boxes. Please save all your discarded cereal boxes, bring them to Cornerstone and place them in the container marked “VBS” under the coat rack. Thank you!
Another VBS need is bringing treats to the closing program for VBS on Friday, July 30th. 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!
MOPS (Mothers of PreSchoolers) continues 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.
PRAYER
Matt Creamer will lead our next Prayer Meeting and Hymn Sing in the Sanctuary this Sunday, July 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m. This will be a blessed time for all. Come join us in prayer and sing those hymns of old.
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; 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.