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I’m New Resources stories About Connect Give LIVE SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS Sending: Global For The World. Sending healthy members & resources to plant and strengthen churches in strategic partnerships around the world. What is the Lord calling you to today? Pray Jesus called us in Luke 10:2 to pray for laborers in the harvest field. Learn more about ways to pray for the nations and specific people and places Cornerstone is connected to. Learn More Welcome Thousands of international students come to study here in Ames. 8% of Ames residents are international; 12% of ISU. That’s 4,000+ students and professors from over 100 countries. Learn More Care Cornerstone Global’s vision is for each of our overseas workers to know and be known by other members at Cornerstone. Learn More Give As members of Cornerstone give, they participate in global missions. 14% of what is given to the Cornerstone general fund goes towards global missions. Learn More Learn Cornerstone provides many opportunities to become more acquainted with international sending partnerships and God’s heart for the world throughout the Scriptures. Learn More Go With both short-term and long-term opportunities, there are many contexts in which you can be sent. Learn More Pray Jesus called us in Luke 10:2 to pray for laborers in the harvest field. Learn more about ways to pray for the nations and specific people and places Cornerstone is connected to. Pray for Overseas Workers Jesus called us in Luke 10:2 to pray for laborers in the harvest field. Learn more about ways to pray for the nations and specific people and places Cornerstone is connected to. Prayer Resources & Ideas 10:02 Prayer Luke 10:2 encourages us to pray for God to raise up laborers for the harvest. Set your smartphone alarm for 10:02 everyday to pray for the nations. Prompts & Routines Prayer Cast Prayer videos for individual countries The Joshua Project A database of unreached people groups Operation World Pray for a country a day for a year. Window on the World A kid-friendly version of Operation World Nations Nights Global Nations Nights are a time to corporately worship the Lord and pray for the work He is doing here and abroad. Hosted at 7:00p. Upcoming Dates: Check back soon ? Apr 22 Pray for our Overseas Workers Learn more about those sent from Cornerstone and how you can be praying for them View Overseas Worker Bios Welcome Thousands of international students come to study here in Ames. To be salt and light to the ends of the earth just by crossing the street is an incredible opportunity. 8% of Ames are internationals 12% of ISU are internationals 4000+ students & professors from over 100 countries ways to welcome your neighbors English Conversation Partners is a program of International Friendship Connection. Native English speakers are paired with those who are learning and wanting to practice their English skills. Partners meet once a month for conversations and practice English along with learning from each other. If you are interested, whether American or International, you can sign up below! Become a English Conversation Partner Care Cornerstone Global’s vision is for each of our overseas workers to know and be known by other members at Cornerstone. Joining a Sending Team If you would be willing to come alongside others in caring for an overseas worker: Request to Join a Sending Team Ways for Anyone to Care for an Overseas Worker VIEW WORKER PROFILES Pray Get prayer requests from an overseas worker either through their email updates or by directly asking them for prayer requests. Invite your connection group to pray as a group once a month for one of our overseas workers. Communicate Have personal conversations with an overseas worker. Consider a Zoom call with them once a season or a couple of times a year. Write e-mails or letters once a month or a season to let them know you are praying for them. Support Commit sending a care package or Amazon gift card to an overseas worker once a year or more and/or consider being a financial partner with them. Bless Do you have resources, like housing or an extra vehicle, you can share with workers when they’re stateside? Share Resources Parents of Overseas Workers Resources Give As members of Cornerstone give, they participate in global missions. 14% of what is given to the Cornerstone general fund goes towards global missions. How to give Our encouragement for every Cornerstone member is to first give to the general fund so leadership can rightly appropriate funds to the areas needed. Then, as you look to give further, consider giving to a designated fund. Give to Cornerstone Give to a Designated Fund Where Global Funding Goes Those who give financially to the Cornerstone general fund participate together in what God is doing globally and can trust that those dollars are stewarded well. The Cornerstone General fund allocates $600,000 each year to global missions. This means in 2021-22, 14 cents of every dollar given to the Cornerstone general fund goes toward Global Sending. Some of these activities include giving to outside organizations, members involved in ministries around the globe, and ministries that Cornerstone is directly involved with. We also receive $40,000 in raised funds to aid this budget. Global Church Planting $200,000 Efforts include: Supporting over 40 Overseas Goers from our church and network doing university church planting in East Asia and Southeast Asia Supporting over 20 Cornerstone member missionaries throughout the world and near culture missionaries in Central Asia Mobilizing US churches to adopt university cities around the world. Global Church Strengthening $50,000 Efforts include: Supporting the work of Serve India ministries Supporting Albanian pastors Support for pastor training and networking for Zambian pastors Global Community Development Efforts $60,000 Efforts include: Supporting the Hope Center in Zambia Supporting The Light Center in Thailand Supporting Mission Starfish in Haiti Supporting Jonathan’s House International Friendship Connection $105,000 Efforts include: The ministry of International Friendship Connection (IFC) Short-Term Trip Scholarships $60,000 Efforts include: Trip scholarships for high school, Salt Company, and community trips globally Staffing and Administration $150,000 Efforts include: Staffing and administration for global missions as we help our church and network churches have and live out a global vision Learn Each year we will have an Introduction to Missions Crash Course. In this course, we will explore God’s heart for the world throughout the Scriptures, strategies for global missions, and your role in that global mission. We also provide regular Lunch & Learn” meetings where you can get to know one of our partners and locations after second service. Additionally, each fall we publish a new issue of From The Field , a magazine that tells stories and updates from those already sent out among the Nations. From The Field lunch & Learns Next Date The Light Center: Thailand June 23, 12:00p Check back soon to RSVP RSVP Here Check back soon for upcoming dates! Go With both short-term and long-term opportunities, there are many contexts in which you can be sent. Short-Term Trip Details Short-Term Interest Form Long-Term Interest Form short-term We have an incredible opportunity in our day and age to be exposed to the needs of the world and to have our personal and family’s worldview shaped by being exposed to people of other cultures. Cornerstone offers numerous cultural exposure trips for our members to be a blessing to our overseas partners and to learn from the faith of our dear brothers and sisters overseas. Long-Term With over 3 billion in the people in the world that have restricted or low access to the Gospel, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. As a church, we desire to send healthy members into cross-cultural settings to bring the Gospel to the next generation of university students. Learn...