Our First Missions Conference

We recently had our first "mini"-missions conference!  Dr. Bruce McAllister was the key-note speaker and preached powerful messages from John chapter 4.  Our two newest missionary families, the Dan Baker family and the Steve Diachenko family, were with us and preached and presented their perspective ministries to our church.  The Bakers and Diachenkos are both going to North Queensland, Australia.  While both families will focus on reaching the lost in Australia, Steve will be church planting and Dan will be training local men to pastor churches throughout Australia. 

Pastor David Neal and his wife Laura were also with us.  Pastor Neal is the Pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Harvard (not Massachusetts) but Illinois.  Pastor Neal preached the final message of our conference on Sunday afternoon.

Many thanks for everyone who worked so hard toward the success of this conference.  Many of our folks volunteered to help.  Special thanks to our Social Committee and the families who hosted the missionaries.  We are looking forward, already, to next year's conference.

Congratulations on being baptized!

We had a Baptismal service at Anchor Baptist Church, pastored by my friend Larry Richmond.  Seventeen of our folks followed the Lord in believer's baptism after asking God to save them.  It was a blessed service attended by many friends and family members.  When our church "grows-up", we'll have a baptistry too!

Eric Ludy - The Gospel

I don't know Eric Ludy, so the posting of this video is not an endorsement of him or the producers of this video.  What I do know is the truth and blessing of the Message!  I hope it will be a blessing for you too.

Fundamental?

Fundamental is a word with which we choose to describe ourselves at Cornerstone Baptist Church. Because the word has different meanings and connotations to different people, I think it would be good to define the word as it pertains to our particular ministry. Although some people use the words "radical", "legalistic" and "mean-spirited" as synonymns for Christian Fundamentalism, we choose to embrace a definition like the one in Dr. David Beale's book, "In Pursuit Of Purity", where Dr. Beale writes on page three, "Ideally, a Christian Fundamentalist is one who desires to reach out in love and compassion to people, believes and defends the whole Bible as the absolute, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God, and stands committed to the doctrine and practice of holiness". Later in that same paragraph he writes, "Fundamentalism is not a philosophy of Christianity, nor is it essentially an interpretation of the Scriptures. It is not even a mere literal exposition of the Bible. The essence of Fundamentalism goes much deeper than that-it is the unqualified acceptance of and obedience to the Scriptures." Now, I understand that some have given "Christian Fundamentalism" a bad name, (and I'm not talking about the Islamic extremists) but that should cause us to stand against unbiblical behavior, not the priciples of fundamentalism as described by Dr. Beale. We, at Cornerstone Baptist Church, believe the Bible to be the supreme and final authority by which all human conditions, creeds and opinions shall be measured. We strive for the purity of Bible-doctrine. We exercize ourselves unto Godliness and endeavor daily to be holy. Our desire is to glorify God, evangelize the lost, and edify fellow believers in Christ. Right now, those things are some characteristics of Christian Fundamentalists. Until someone comes up with a better term, I guess we'll stick with it.

Teen Initiation 2011

Welcome to the Teen-Group!!!
Our up and coming teens were welcomed into the teen group with quite a flurry of activities promoting teamwork and just plain fun.

Mr. Jake set up an obstacle course at the Smith residence and the teens had to work their way through it.