Our Future

Living the Legacy is a three-year campaign to raise the financial resources needed for Cornerstone Fellowship to build a new facility to live out our vision for ministry. The campaign will be conducted in three phases: Phase I, which runs through September, is designed to sharpen our congregation’s understanding and focuson our ministry mission and vision. Phase II, in October and November, is designed to further inform our members through personal home visits and to ask them to consider advance commitments to the campaign. Phase III begins with an all-church banquet to celebrate God’s work during Cornerstone’s first decade and the campaign’s progress thus far, and tooffer another opportunity for every member of the church family to join the campaign. This phase continues over the next three years. The building fund grows as members fulfill their faith commitments with donations.

If we’re totally honest with ourselves, we all long to make an impact in this world. When it’s all said and done, we want to know that in some small way, our existence made a difference. What will people say about us? Did we leave a mark? These are the questions of legacy. The same is true for us as Christ’s church. What is going to be our eternal legacy? What will we leave behind? Cornerstone Church has a rich heritage of life-giving ministry—this is our legacy from the past. For the past ten years this church has been proclaiming the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. As a result, people have come to Christ, grown in their faith, and have been equipped to serve Him. The personal stories of life-change now serve as living monuments of a lasting legacy. But this is just the beginning. We have a divine mission to “develop dedicated followers of Christ” and a vision to be a church that passionately shares the good news of Jesus Christ, an assembly of authentic worshipers, a place where people experience loving community, a place where people pursue spiritual growth and seek to serve God. I believe that we have the opportunity to cement this legacy in history through the Living the Legacy capital campaign. This campaign will help us take one step closer to seeing the dream of building a new facility become a reality. Our facility will be a new tool for more effective ministry in the future. Living the Legacy is about more than bricks and mortar; it’s about our ministry mission and vision. It’s about more than building a building; it’s about leaving a legacy for God’s glory. I’m excited about taking this spiritual journey together!

[Pastor Jeff]

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GROUNDBREAKING!

Members of Cornerstone Fellowship Evangelical Free Church gathered Sunday, July 10, for a gound breaking celebration at the site of their new church building west of Greenfield. Grading has begun on the 10-acre site, located on the south side of Highway 92 about one-half mile west of town. A new 7500 square foot facility will be built. Brown Church Development of Kearney, Neb., is serving as the architect and contractor for the project. The congregation hopes to move into the new building by January 2012. 
Cornerstone Fellowship was founded in 1998 and currently meets in a storefront building on the west side of the Greenfield square. Pastor Jeff
Banks and elder chairman John Clark are pictured above holding the shovels. During the celebration, with the theme “Praise for the Past, Faith for the Future,” Banks and Clark turned over shovels-full of dirt, representing the church’s present ministry. The church’s past was represented by Bill and Kathi Piper and Ken and Vicki Sidey, two of the founding families of the church. Brenna Walk and Carson Eschelman took their turns with the shovels, representing the future.