Cornerstone Community Church began in 1998, when several families decided to form a church and began to look for a building. The group began worshipping with the First Presbyterian Church in Chowchilla. Soon after, the two congregations joined together and formed Cornerstone Community Church and became a member of the Classis of Central California of the Reformed Church of America. Reverend Ed Fikse led the congregation as Interim Pastor until the summer of 1999, when Reverend Michael J. Scott began his ministry as Senior Pastor. At that time, 68 families or approximately 223 individuals called Cornerstone Community Church their church home. Many have said that when they walk into a Sunday morning service, they felt a sense of belonging or hospitality that differed from what they had experienced in the past. As a result, the congregation and ministries of Cornerstone began to grow and draw in people from the community and surrounding areas. It wasn’t long before the church had outgrown the facility and began to build a new facility to house the expanding congregation. The new sanctuary is designed to hold 550 people. The first worship service in the new facility was held on June 18, 2006. With the new building, came many more ministry opportunities, including a preschool ministry in February, 2009, and a flourishing youth program. The congregation recently voted to expand the facility and parking lot by adding an education wing to accommodate more people and ministry programs. On an average, Cornerstone Community Church now ministers to over 600 individuals. Pastor Mike, served as the lead pastor of Cornerstone for the past 17 years. In May of 2017 he moved on from ministry at Cornerstone to be closer to his family. Logan Beardsley transitioned from youth pastor of 9 years to interim pastor, and after a seven month search process for our next lead pastor, Cornerstone voted to call Logan Beardsley to be our next lead pastor. Logan is very excited to lead our Church in this next season of ministry! Logan is passionate about the Gospel; seeing lives changed and changing by the person and work of Jesus Christ. It is his desire to build a staff that is unified on our mission. His desire is to find people that are willing to be authentic and excited to plan together, take risks together, fail together, and run together after seeing Jesus change lives. Cornerstone's Mission Statement: "In everything we will glorify God and build relationships,connecting people with the person and work of Jesus Christ." We as a church, are proud and humbled by what God is doing within us and are looking forward to see what God has in store for us as a church community as we move forward in this next stage of ministry.
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