GREEN LAKE CONFERENCE CENTER
Cornerstone is always pursuing ways in which we can network together for effective ministry. Green Lake Conference Center, located in Green Lake, Wisc., is fast becoming a leader and focal point in church planting through its Center for Excellence in Congregational Leadership, known as CECL. Premier speakers such as Dan Southerland, Leighton Ford and others have been a source for pastors to grow in their ministries. Outstanding programming has blossomed into a two-and-a-half-year training tract. The tracts include personal and pastoral integrity; emotional, physical and spiritual health. Other sessions cover creating vision and leading change, establishing a healthy balance between ministry and family, team building, etc. Learn more about everything that's going on at Green Lake at www.glcc.org, or phone them at (920) 294-3323.


MISSION AMERICA COALITION
CCN is a proud partner with MAC, the Mission America Coalition. The Mission America Coalition grew out of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. One year following the first International Congress for World Evangelization in Switzerland in 1974, the U.S. Lausanne Committee was formed as a statement by American leaders of their desire for the evangelization of America. In 1995 Mission America moved from a committee to a Coalition and a Movement. That year, Mission America and the Billy Graham Center cosponsored a National Consultation on Evangelism in Lisle, Ill., with approximately 165 U.S. Christian leaders participating, a meeting now considered the birthplace of MAC.

Since 1995, MAC partners have been involved in many collaborative prayer, evangelism and revival efforts including Celebrate Jesus 2000, The Lighthouse Movement, The Urgent Appeal, 911 Remembrance, Honor Our Heroes, Turn on the Light America, Shaping Eternity and others.

In 2004 the Coalition launched Loving Our Communities to Christ to help call the church together to construct customized, locally initiated and owned strategies, goals and action plans to reach communities with the love and grace of Jesus Christ. Visit MAC's web site at www.missionamerica.org or phone them at (760) 200-2707.


NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS
The mission of NAE is to extend the kingdom of God through a fellowship of member denominations, churches, organizations and individuals, demonstrating the unity of the body of Christ by standing for biblical truth, speaking with a representative voice, and serving the evangelical community through united action, cooperative ministry, and strategic planning. With more than 50 years facilitating evangelical unity, witness and cooperation, NAE is well situated to continue providing strategic leadership as evangelicals face an uncertain future. Dr. Leith Anderson, a well-known pastor, author, seminary lecturer, and missions leader has been named Interim President of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). Visit their web site at www.nae.net.


TEAM
TEAM is an evangelical, nondenominational, international mission whose purpose is to help churches send missionaries to establishing reproducing churches in other nations to the glory of God. TEAM has approximately 750 missionaries serving in more than 40 countries. TEAM is clearly about helping churches send missionaries, but the responsibility for sending them lies squarely on the shoulders of the local church. The missionaries work to establish churches, but they also promote the missionary-sending efforts of those churches. To quote TEAM, “Our work is focused on the church from beginning to end. We engage existing churches in cooperative efforts to establish new churches worldwide and then encourage those churches to establish even more new churches.” For more information, please visit their web site at www.teamworld.org or call toll-free (800) 343-3144. TEAM is headquartered in Wheaton, Ill.


WILLOW CREEK ASSOCIATION
Cornerstone joined Willow Creek Association to help resource churches. Since 1992, the Willow Creek Association has been linking like-minded, action-oriented churches with each other and with strategic vision, training and resources. Cornerstone desires to serve local church leaders in building biblically functioning churches that reach increasing numbers of lost people – not just with innovations from Willow Creek, but with God-given breakthroughs with widespread potential from any church in the world. The WCA is a not-for-profit ministry with more than 11,000 Member Churches from 90 denominations and 45 countries. They represent a wide variety of sizes, denominations and backgrounds, and are ministering in literally every corner of the world. As they pursue their own unique, God-given vision for ministry in their community, Member Churches confirm a shared commitment to Christ and a passion for reaching lost people."

To learn more about Willow Creek Association, phone (847) 765-0070 or visit their web site at www.willowcreek.com.


WORLD RELIEF
Cornerstone is pleased to partner in ministry with World Relief. For more than 60 years, World Relief has provided life-saving aid and development for countries throughout the world. The organization believes the church must be the “hands of Jesus,” and that the local church offers the best context for reaching those in need of spiritual, social or physical aid.

World Relief works through local churches to:

• Reach – Bridging distance and lack of awareness to link suffering people and those who are eager to help.
  Respond – Mobilizing and equipping local churches to be God’s agents of healing and restoration in times of disaster, war, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.
  Invest – Training and educating marginalized people and their communities, and teaching them to pass along these skills to others.
  Transform – Providing opportunities for churches to engage themselves in their communities, leading to physical, social and spiritual transformation.

World Relief in action
In 2001, a fire destroyed Huy Meng’s home when it swept through a Phnom Penh slum; the family lost everything. The government relocated them to the village of Sain Sok, providing only a small parcel of land and a tarp, which the family still uses as their main shelter.

Things began to change for the positive when Huy Meng met Darline, the CREDIT Program promoter in Huy Meng’s neighborhood. Darline introduced Huy Meng to World Relief’s microfinance program, CREDIT, and showed her how to make soybean milk using a large grinding stone. Now, every day, Huy Meng rises before the sun to grind soybeans into the white liquid that is a popular drink in Cambodia. She says, “I get up in the morning around 3 o’clock to help my husband.” She fills the small plastic drink bottles and loads them into the family’s small cart. Her husband sells the soybean juice at the village schoolyard allowing them to make about $1 to $1.25 a day.

Right now, most of Huy Meng’s income goes toward buying food for the family. But, Huy Meng dreams of one day expanding the business. “I need the money to build a home,” she said. Her goal is to one day build a wooden house for her children instead of the tarp shelter. Darline and Huy Meng are still friends and have built their relationship over the years. Over the course of their friendship, Darline shared with Huy Meng and other CREDIT group members about the teachings of Jesus Christ. As Huy Meng saw Jesus’ love being demonstrated before her, she accepted Jesus and attends a local church along with her family.

World Relief’s CREDIT Program’s results are dramatic. CREDIT's role as a witness of Christ's love is strengthened through investment in staff who meet weekly for bible study and devotions and receive teaching at an annual staff retreat. CREDIT Cambodia promotes not only social and economic change, but also spiritual transformation.

For more information about World Relief, to read about others who have been helped or to see how your church can become involved in this dynamic organization, visit their web site at www.wr.org. You may also e-mail at worldrelief@wr.org or phone toll-free (800) 535-5433.