Sports and the Gospel

The latest men's outreach, a men's dodgeball tournament, drew 130 men last Friday evening to the Ames Middle School. In addition to having a blast watching the unexpectedly agile win games and the rest get creamed, at least 40 men who have never attended Cornerstone were able to hear the gospel for the first time.

On another front, the Iowa State women's soccer team invited our TSC Women's director, Jill Paullus, to lead Bible studies for any team members who wanted to participate. Almost the entire team was attending these studies by the end of the soccer season.

Upward Basketball has sent informational flyers home to every student in the Ames school district. Those stories are yet to be told...

Transformed?

After this weekend's message, a visiting Chinese student asked, "Is it true? Can I really be transformed?" And then, one story after another about God's amazing transforming power...

• Bob, a member of the Communist Party, a father who is Muslim, a mother who is Buddhist, excited about the number of arenas he has been given to reach out with the gospel truth
• A neighbor invited to attend an Intro to Cornerstone class, finds her God-story written in class as she asks Christ to be her Savior
• A Salt Company student thanked by visiting parents for reaching out to their son with the gospel...the son that they had been praying for, crying out to God for other believers to reach out to him.

The Salt Company Fall Retreat

The Salt Company had 360 students at its annual fall retreat this past weekend at Hidden Acres. As guest speaker, Ed Noble, spoke on drawing close to Jesus in personal prayer time, the students were given the opportunity to seek God individually... and a new level of humility and brokeness were the result. God is drawing our students to Himself in holiness.