Cornerstone Church follows the Purpose Driven Church model from Rick Warren’s book The Purpose Driven Church. Warren’s book was written in 1995 and details the model he uses at Saddleback Church to grow from one family in 1980 to thousands of attendees on multiple campuses today.

One component of the model in his book is Fellowship. Warren says “We don’t grow in isolation from others; we develop in the context of fellowship.” He supports this with scripture; Hebrews 10:24-25 “And let us consider how we can spur one another on towards love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another.”

Fellowship happens to also be one of Cornerstone’s core values. We believe Fellowship is the process of people making a connection with other people. It is important that the church provide a way for people to build relationships and friendships. Therefore, we are committed to creating environments that help people build these important relationships. – Acts 2:46-47

⁴⁶ Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, ⁴⁷ praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

In the past Cornerstone has organized multiple events designed to encourage fellowship, everything from a Valentine’s prom to miniature golf in the parking lot. This year we are planning four fellowship events starting with our Wild Game Dinner (see Join Us for Our First 2009 Fellowship Event) this Saturday.

We encourage you to gather your family, your friends or come by yourself and join us for a great time of fellowship. Bring your favorite recipe and share it with your church family. There will be plenty of food, conversation and good times. I’ll see you there.

Jack

This is a Fellowship event that is open to the entire church family. It will be held on Saturday, February 21st from 3-8 pm at the church. We will have the parking lot open for “grilling”, if anyone is interested, with the dinner beginning at 6 pm. People are encouraged to enter a dish made with wild game of their choice for judging. We will also ask that people bring covered dish vegetables, desserts OR non-wild game meat enough for four people. The wild game entries must feed at least ten people. There will be a grand prize for the best wild game meal and random door prizes. No childcare available, however, families are encouraged to attend.

Wild game judging will begin at 5:30pm.