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Pat Courtemanche: Faith Enough to Go
I grew up in a French-speaking home in Auburn, Maine with a sweet Canadian-born mother and an alcoholic father. My parents were Roman Catholic, though they allowed me to go to the Vacation Bible School (VBS) every year at the little Baptist church near my house. My friend’s grandparents were true believers and after VBS would run a little Backyard Bible club. This is where I first met Christ as a 6 year old and accepted him as my Savior.…
Cornerstone Connect: October 30, 2015 Edition
This week in the Connect: This Saturday will be our 5th official service since launching the church on the 3rd of October. It is absolutely amazing to look back at what God has done over the last two years, and it is even more amazing in some ways to see what he has done in the last 4 weeks. God is clearly at work in Westford and in our new church!
Bruce Burchfield: Empty Repetition and Knowing God
I was brought up Catholic. I went to church every Sunday. I attended CCD. I knew who the Lord was. I knew who the Virgin Mary was. I knew my prayers. I was baptized as an infant, celebrated my first holy communion, and was confirmed. When I was in high school, I was doing the things all teenagers do. I was dating and accompanying my girlfriends to their houses of worship and experiencing different ways of worshiping the Lord.…
Rebecca Lawrence: No, I’m Not Perfect
As a small child, this may come as a shock, but I was NOT the perfect child. In fact, when I did something wrong my parents would ask me why. “Why did you lie?” or “Why did you hit your brother?” I would answer “I dunno” and I meant it. I didn’t know why I did things I knew were wrong, but I had a sense that something was missing, I just didn’t know what. I found the answer at church. I grew up in a…
Cornerstone Connect: October 18, 2015 Edition
The October 18 Edition of the Cornerstone Connect is full of information! We hope you will be involved in our Trunk or Treat on October 31! Load up your trunk with goodies and come on over at noon to the Cornerstone parking lot. It should be a fun afternoon for kids and adults alike! Have questions? Shirley Burchfield can answer them. We’d love to worship with you on Saturday at 5:00–please come!
Our Story
The story of Cornerstone began over a hundred years ago. In 1893, two churches, First Baptist and Calvary Baptist, started a Sunday School program as an outreach ministry to the Lowell community. Immanuel Baptist Church was officially founded at 53 Blossom Street in 1896. In 1970, that church moved to Billerica Rd (Ma-129) in Chelmsford. A few years previous, in 1960, several pastors graduated from a seminary in Oklahoma and headed to the New England area to plant churches. Pastor George…
Cornerstone Connect: September 29, 2015
The September 29th issue of the Cornerstone Connect is jam packed with a lot of information and opportunities to serve! This coming Saturday, October 3, is our Kick-Off Service! We are finished with our Core-team gathering times and our Preview services and are now beginning our new life as Cornerstone Congregational Church! We are all so excited! Remember, our service is at 5:00 pm this Saturday! We hope to see you there! We are praying for 144 worshipers. Come and join…
5 Ingredients for Spiritual Meal-Making
My mom is a great cook who would make three delicious meals a day for my brothers and me. I wish I could say I inherited my mom’s love for cooking, but I never did. She tried and tried to teach me how to cook, but I never wanted to learn. Now my wife is away for a few weeks and I’m counting down the days until the lasagna she made and so lovingly stored in the freezer is gone.…
Ann Ralls: From goddess Worship to Worshipping Christ
My mother would prepare food for them, said prayers while burning incense sticks, and burn ritual paper money to appease gods and ancestors for health and prosperity. We occasionally visited temples of different gods to pray and burn more incense and ritual paper money. My impression of the religion at that time was that we’d better do all the necessary rituals or they would come after us. I once asked my mother why we were doing all this;…
Cornerstone Connect: September 8, 2015
The September 8th 2015 edition of Cornerstone Connect is now available. It’s time for our second preview service this coming Saturday, September 12th at 5pm. We’re going to wrap up our two-part series in Ezekiel called Ready for God. You can prepare for this weekend’s sermon by reading Ezekiel 43:1-12. In our current issue, Pastor Jonathan encourages us to meditate on 1 Corinthians 3:16 to prepare us for worship, “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s…
Cornerstone Connect: August 19, 2015
The August 19 edition of Cornerstone Connect is all about what we have been waiting for: Our First Preview Service!!! Pastor Jonathan reminds us that we should be praying and thinking about how we will welcome visitors to our services. In addition, he is looking for help with our Introduction to Jesus class which will be held in October and November.
Cornerstone Connect: July 10, 2015
Pastor Jonathan encourages us to remember to pray for our ministry in and for Westford in the July 10 edition of Cornerstone Connect and is calling for a time of prayer on July 29 from 7-9 pm at the church. This edition is also jam packed with updates about our involvement in the Chelmsford Country Fair over the Fourth of July holiday as well as updates on the naming of our Trustees and the opportunity to teach Christianity Explored through…