Escape 22 Team is back from Panama!

A team of high school students spent the past week in Panama with the Embera people...

• working on building projects
• helping with kids camp during the day
• celebrating God during Youth nights with the teenagers of the village each evening

The team leaders were able to train the adults:

• in inductive Bible study
• parenting skills
• in understanding a biblical model of marriage

And to wrap up their time, the students were invited into the homes of the villagers to celebrate a meal together.

Pray that the skills, truth and lives shared will continue to bear fruit among the Embera!

Summer Planting

Fruit is anticipated through...

• a return trip to Rosebud - incoming high school freshmen ministered to the Native Americans this last week. One Native American woman said that "if a Cornerstone Church existed on the reservation, I would be a part of it."
• D6 - as the children's ministry kicked off a week of VBS in parks at a big celebration at Cornerstone on Sunday night
• Escape - the Cornerstone high school ministry will be sending one group of students to Minneapolis to reach out through a prison ministry, to the Somali refugee community, and other inner city missions. Another group of students will be heading to Panama to serve and share the gospel.

Pray that God will multiply His fruit through each of these ministries!

Youth Teams Return

God's work in Rosebud...

• Escape 22 took 18 students to the Rosebud Reservation with a goal of each student making one long lasting contact with a Rosebud teenager.
• 28 Rosebud teenagers are connected! They will be discipled via email and Facebook on a longterm basis, and followed up personally when Cornerstone again travels to Rosebud.
• This is a vital ministry at a critical time in their lives - the average age that children begin to consume alcohol on the reservation is 11 years old. Pray for God's work in these 28.
• Westwind also sent a team that shared at a rehab center in Rosebud. One of the men on the Westwind team, thinking he had come to help build with a hammer in hand, was used by God to instill hope at the rehab center as he shared his own story of God's deliverance from alcohol and drugs. Hope is a precious commodity at Rosebud. Pray that the God of all Hope will invade their lives.

180 Student Life Campers...

• 50 junior high students from Cornerstone went to the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri to grow in their walk with God.
• the camp speaker, an Iranian Christian, shared on the cost of following Christ, and what it means to walk in authenticity and unity as believers.
• 9 students gave their lives to Christ!
• pray that the students will continue to live out the reality of their faith in authenticity and unity for His glory.