Stories tagged with: cornerstone baptist church

• Inner-city homeless ministry stretched during COVID-19

  by Diana Chandler , posted Friday, April 03, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  DALLAS (BP) -- People who lined up for meals recently at Cornerstone Baptist Church in blighted South Dallas had not been able to shower in a month and had no place to call their own while the city of Dallas is under a shelter-in-place order.

  Moving through the line while keeping six feet apart, each received a hot meal from church volunteers wearing protective gear and then wandered back into unsanitary conditions on the streets. Read More

• Gaines, McKissic, others talk race and SBC

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, August 22, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

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  ARLINGTON, Texas (BP) -- Evangelicals challenge political leaders who support same-sex marriage and abortion, and they should also stand strongly against vitriolic rhetoric, violence and hatred, pastor Dwight McKissic said in a panel discussion on racial tension he hosted Aug. 20 in Arlington, Texas.

  Among guests on the panel was Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines, who renounced racial and political hatred, saying it has no place in a Christian's life. Read More

• Cornerstone unites, grows in cooperative ministry

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, September 02, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

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  LONE TREE, Colo. (BP) -- Visitors might have thought things were good at two Denver-area churches, University Hills and Cornerstone, before their merger in 2008.

  Yet both churches, each with a Sunday morning worship attendance between 150 and 175, needed revitalization, internal renewal. The merger was the impetus to fill that need, said Michael Atherton, called in 2005 to pastor University Hills.

  "This merger allowed this church to pool the talents, treasures and resources of ... Read More