Spring is coming! Daylight Savings Time begins this Saturday. Remember to set your clocks up one hour Saturday night before you go to bed! We don’t want you to arrive at church an hour late!
♥ Do you have time to touch a heart while you play? The Cornerstone MOPS ministry still needs additional adult caregivers the first and third Thursday morning of each month from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. Homeschoolers who have a desire to work with children are more than welcome. The pay is $20, or you can volunteer your services to further benefit the ministry of MOPS. Contact Christine Mosley (314.324.3886) or Dana Stuemke (314.646.7597).
To Our Cornerstone Family, Thank you for the plant and for prayers for our family. Dad’s passing was an answered prayer but he will be missed. Jack and Sandy Kennedy
Thanks for all the cards, visits, and prayers. Doug is back at work a couple jobs a day this week and doing o.k. He goes to the doctor Thursday again. We won’t know the full extent of the surgery’s success until the inflammation goes down, and that may take months. Joan Boyd
Special Service – On Sunday, March 21, Peter Blitshteyn of Jews for Jesus will present “Christ in the Passover” at Cornerstone during our 1st hour and at 12:30 p.m. to present the message that Jesus is the Messiah to all people around the world. He and his wife, Olga, are from the former Soviet Union and are now U.S. citizens. Jesus’ Last Supper was actually a Jewish Passover. Peter Blitshteyn will recreate the traditional Passover service with a Seder and explain how it foreshadowed Jesus’ death and resurrection. Join us in a presentation called “Christ in the Passover” which will take us from Egypt to Calvary to what it means for us today.
The “Christ in the Passover” presentation will also be performed to the Russian congregation at 12:30 p.m. and because they are using this as an outreach to the local Jewish community, they anticipate more children than usual. ♥ Adult and teen volunteers are urgently needed to help with child care. Please contact the office or Anne Parker if you can help.
GENERAL COMMUNITY EVENTS
♥ ThriVe St. Louis, formerly Pregnancy Resource Center, is looking for individuals who can help with numerous needs of the center. More and more people are troubled by the tragedy of abortion and want to do something positive and life-affirming, but aren’t sure what to do. Copies of the extensive list of needs are posted on the “Life” bulletin board in the church hallway. Please stop by, pick one up and give them a call. You will be welcomed with open arms!
The St. Louis BACKSTOPPERS will have a fundraiser on Friday, April 9th, 6:00 p.m. to Midnight at the Masonic Lodge, 12 W. Lockwood, (next to the Webster Groves City Hall) featuring music and comedy. The cost is $25.00 per person. Started in 1959, The BackStoppers provides needed support and financial assistance to the spouses and children of all local and county police officers, firefighters, publicly-funded paramedics and EMTs and volunteer fire protection units, who have lost their lives performing their duty. Deaths from natural causes, illnesses or injuries are outside the organization’s scope. More information can be found on www.backstoppers.org.
BIBLE STUDIES
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. Please call, email, or tell Rich if you want to attend.
The Saturday morning Barnabas Project, open to men and women, is led by Pastor Terry and 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. Please come.
Two Russian Bible Studies continue every Wednesday, 6:15 p.m., at the Parkway Baptist facility. The adults are led by Ion Cheptene and the youth by Terry Reznikov. Child care is provided.
See “Men’s Ministry” below for information about several Men’s Bible Studies. Our Women’s Ministry has two studies currently on the calendar. See details under “Women’s Ministry” below.
Many small groups meet at individual homes each week to fellowship and study the Bible. If you are not in a group and would like to be, contact Aaron Goldstein for more information or to be plugged in. aaron@cornerstonestaff.org
MISSIONS
♥ Plans are underway for this summer’s mission trip to Moldova. Would you like to go? The first youth camp will be Monday, July 5 through Saturday, July 10 studying the book Josef , led by Uliana and Ion Cotorobai –– The second youth camp will be Monday, July 12 through Saturday, July 17 studying the book What Does the Bible Say About Sex? , led by Svetlana and Nicolai Syli. If you would like to accompany Ion Cheptene on either or both of these trips, please contact Ion at ion@cornerstonestaff.org.
♥ The Brockman family (Ernie, Denise, Trey and Eli) is going back to Mexico on another mission trip this summer (Saturday, June 19 through Saturday, June 26). They invite anyone interested in joining them. Contact Ernie or Denise at 314.963.1295 or emb2x2@juno.com to learn more.
MEN’S MINISTRY
A Friday, 7:00 a.m., Men’s Bible Study meets at First Watch in Webster. The topic is One2Won discipleship, similar to the Saturday morning study, and all men are welcome to attend.
A new men’s Bible study led by Ernie Brockman will begin on Tuesday, March 16th, 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Fireplace Room. The first meeting will decide on the study. Please contact Ernie at 314.963.1295 with questions and to RSVP.
WOMEN’S MINISTRY
There is a change in the Tuesday, 9:00-11:00 a.m. class. Susan Ritland’s Devotional Classics ended this week and Karol Schoenfeld will begin a new study next week on the Book of Ruth. This class meets in the Junior Church Room. RSVP to karolschoenfeld@gmail.com.
“The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children” by Stormie Omartian, a 14-week Women’s Bible Study, meets on Tuesday Nights and is led by Marilyn McDonald. This class will continue through April 27. They start at 6:30 p.m. with a bowl of soup, then study and pray until 8:30 p.m. If you have children in their late teens or beyond, please join them! To register and obtain required study texts, please e-mail Karol Schoenfeld at karolschoenfeld@gmail.com.
STUDENT MINISTRY
A middle school lock-in is planned this Friday, March 12th, beginning at 9:30 p.m. and ending promptly at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, the 13th. ♥ ADULT VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED at 10:30 to Midnight to help with a scavenger hunt and Midnight to 2:00 a.m. for ice skating. Do you also have a camera that we can borrow for the scavenger hunt? Contact Luanne Steele at 315.963.1707 if you can help.
CHILDREN’S MINISTRY
ATTENTION PARENTS! On Palm Sunday morning our 2 and 3/4 year old preschoolers AND Kids’ Choir will sing for the 9:00 a.m. service and MUST be at church by 8:30 a.m. to get dressed as they will wear a costume. The SAME goes for Easter Sunday morning for our Kids’ Choir.
Everyone: Could you help us ♥ with the following pre-school classes on these dates??
March 28 Help in 3’s/4’s
April 25 Help in 3’s/4’s
May 15 TEACH in the 2’s
PRAYER REQUESTS
Please pray for Maggie Almquist, Ric and Kathy Oppelt’s daughter-in-law, who is in the ICU at St. Mary’s Hospital in critical condition. NO visitors are allowed at this time. She has an inflammation in her blood that is cutting off blood flow in her body. She had surgery this morning and will have more this afternoon. Please pray for her, her husband, children (Olivia and Gus), the doctors, and for Ric and Kathy as they care for their grandchildren.
Continue to pray for Lee Burns and the health issues he is facing, Tracey Calhoun as she receives a defibrillator today; for Marilyn Brown and her son, Mark; Cal and Sue Swan’s son, Ben; Oleg Reznikov and his family; and, for Karen Felton.
Continue to pray for the Russian Jews who invited Jesus into their hearts last November, for their growth in Christ, and for the Jewish community who have been invited to attend the Sunday, March 21st outreach, “Christ in the Passover” presentation at 12:30 p.m. Also continue to pray for Cornerstone missionaries, students and those going through personal trials and health issues; and, for Immanuel, Pastor Todd and their congregation.
Our Monday evening prayer group meets from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the Junior Church Room; and, the 50/50 prayer group continually 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
We can always use help somewhere. Sign up through the Welcome sheet in your Sunday bulletin or call or email the church office to joanne@cornerstonestaff.org and we will plug you in. Did you see all the ♥ in this newsletter and wonder what they are all about? That shows just a sampling of the volunteer opportunities available at Cornerstone. We have many other opportunities that are not listed. You are what makes Cornerstone thrive so come 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.