Getting Ready For Easter

There are also opportunities to come and participate.

Easter Choir:  Performing at the Easter Service.  Practice begins this   Wednesday at 7pm  in the Mayfair room.
Rehearsals:  March 10, 17, 24, 31.

Orchestra Rehearsals: March 14, 21, 28, 31

For more information call 931-4949
or email us at cornerstone@sasktel.net

My Perogative?

Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me //
Now now why don’t they just let me live //
Oh oh oh i don’t need permission  //
Make my own decisions oh //
That’s my prerogative

-Bobby Brown, “My Perogative”, released 1988

I love road trips.

Hours in the car with friends or family can* be a wonderful thing.  Miles of road (err, kilometres?) can lead to all kinds of wonderful converstation, and insights.  Waaay to many nibs and chips, bladders that are ready to explode hours from the nearest bathroom, uncomfortable sleeping positions, license plate and headlight games, jokes that get funnier and and funnier the longer you’re in the vehicle together, and music.  Lots and lots of tunes…

… unless of course your ipod cable doesn’t work.

And you’re literally in the middle of nowhere.

Over the school winter break Melissa and I took a bunch of students to Invermere, BC to go snowboarding at Panorama Mountain (eat your heart out, Table.)  And it was just after rosetown that our radio signal faded away, and my vehicle was stuck with nothing.  Just the dial numbers screaming by as the seek button did absolutely nothing.  Of course, no one carries CDs anymore.  I offered to sing, but that didn’t get much response, so we chatted as we meandered our way through the fog towards Calgary.

By the time we we’re rolling in to Kindersly, the discussion of whether to just bite the bullet and pay gas station prices for a CD no one would agree on had started.  And was then forgotten after we left Tim Horton’s.  Shoot.

By Hanna we we’re desperate. WE. NEED. MUSIC.  After much discussion, and a thorough mathmatical evaluation of CD length we settled on two choices: Classic Rock GOLD dual album, and to their eternal credit as wise, musically savvy adolescents, Classic 80’s HITS GOLD.

Axel F may never be this popular again.

A few hours of (finally!) tunes later, we came across the Bobby Brown song, My Perogative.  First came the shock that it wasn’t an original Britney Spears song.  Then came the discussion around the lyrics.

We’ve been talking and teaching on relationships, sex, temptation, and a biblical understanding of purity, and holiness at SNR HI for the last month and the song captured the polarity of the hearts attitudes we can have.  Who makes the calls?  Can we really do whatever we want? Should we have the right to do whatever we want, regardless of what other people think?

And then came the really tough questions… I wonder if too often, we take the Bobby Brown approach

to our relationship with Christ?  Jesus, I want to follow you, but I also want to keep living my life the way I want, and I want control of who makes the decisions, and I have veto power.  Jesus, I want you to lead, but not if I don’t like the direction you’re leading.  Jesus I want to follow, but not if it’s going to cost something I want to hang on to.  Living a personal theology of “My Perogative” goes far beyond just choices of sex and dating.  Do we try and regulate God that way?

I once read that we tend to live as though we are giving God control of our own little kingdoms, but that there are still our kingdoms, whereas God’s desire is that we give up our little independent states and join him as a servants in HIS Kingdom.  He’s not interested in a shared power partnership.  He call us to give him complete control.

1 Cor 6 flies in the face of Bobby’s classic tune:

“Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial. … You are not your own; ²⁰you were bought at a price. (v.2, 19b and 20).

And so, with Bobby Brown turned down so we could talk, in the middle of the badlands of Alberta, high on licorice and energy drinks, a bunch of high school students wrestled honestly with the authority of God in their lives.  How a submission to THE King flies counter-intuitive to our cultures self-sufficient, independent mentality.

I love road trips.

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* I say “can” because I am fully aware that too many hours in the vehicle with a brother or little sister who is annoying you is excruciating, and behind forced to walk a kilometre down the highway with the family vehicle trailing behind with the flashers on like some bizzare

Terry Fox run is not super fun, and neither is having to do laps around the gas station because I won’t stop pestering my brothers.  So road trips weren’t always fun.  But hey, they are what you make of them!

True U

Does God Exist? Begining Sunday Feb 21 at 6:30pm in the Mayfair room.  10 Week DVD series from Focus on Family & the Truth Project.  Sign up on the information desk or call Roger & Lisa Braun at 955-7199.  www.trueu.org

Ladies Bible Study

Earthquake in Haiti

The following is an update from Darrell Damron, Haiti ARISE Ministries, USA, Vice-President:

Marc and the teams & staff of Haiti ARISE are safe, praise God!

As the 7.0 earthquake struck just 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince at about 5pm today (2pm Washington time), Pastor Marc Honorat, Founder and Director of Haiti ARISE Ministries, called and said, “We’re having an earthquake; pray for us!” Then all communications went down.

All afternoon we prayed and waited to hear from someone on the ground in Haiti to tell us everyone at Haiti ARISE Ministries was ok — at about 7:30pm this evening (Washington time) , I received a call from staff at Haiti ARISE Canada (James Roberts) who said that they had just received an email indicating that Marc and the teams and staff in Haiti are safe.  The email was sent from another mission facility that is walking distance from our Haiti ARISE facilities in Grand Goave. Marc and the te am are staying at this mission overnight, sleeping in a school bus since the facility is full of their own mission team and people seeking shelter. But they are all safe!

About 4 hours before the quake hit, a team of 24 volunteers from Nelson, British Columbia, including 17 teenage kids, arrived in Haiti to begin their Haiti ARISE mission trip – little did they know what an opportunity to serve was in store for them!

Haiti ARISE will be providing relief to people in Haiti in the aftermath of this disaster; no doubt our Haiti ARISE team is probably already helping those nearest to them right now.  When the sun rises tomorrow, the extent of the damage will be visible, and people in need will turn to Haiti ARISE for help because we’ve been there in the past for them.
Haiti ARISE will be providing food, water, shelter, and care to many in the coming days, weeks, and months.
You can be a part of the relief effort by donating funds to the Haiti ARISE Ministries “Disaster Relief Fund.” Please keep praying for Haiti!

Send your donation in the US to: Haiti ARISE Ministries “Disaster Relief Fund” PO BOX 609 Montesano, WA 98563	Or in Canada to: Haiti ARISE Ministries “Disaster Relief Fund” PO Box 85267, Albert Park PO Calgary, Alberta T2A 7R7
You can also make donations online on our website:	www.haitiarise.org

Operation WalMart

Last Thursday CSM (Cornerstone Student Ministry) high school students teamed up with students from Lakeview Church, Elim Tabernacle, and Corner to launch a full assault on the Stonebridge Wal-Mart and Dollarama.  Over 100 students showed up with cash in hand to partner up in groups in order to build shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child.  Acting as a jump off point from the Hope Lives series that we’ve been working through, the night provided students with an immediate and tangible way to impact the lives of others, offering hope to those in need.

After cramming into vehicles and driving across town, CSM split up into teams and cruised through the aisles.  It’s alway fun to see the confused looks on the faces of store employees when an army of 16year old walk in and start filling shopping carts (especially when it’s 16 year old boys buying supplies for a 3 year old girl).

Once the shopping was done, students met up with Lakeview and Elim at Lakeview to put boxes together, and then spend some time breaking into groups–2 students from each church–to spend time praying over the boxes, and for the young kids who would be pening them up in the next few months.

One of the great gifts of student ministry is watching students live beyond themselves, and be led by the Holy Spirit in what they do.  The excitement, energy, and joy that explodes out of young adults when they buy in to doing something for others is a contagious reminder that we too should have the same joy of heart when we have opportunity to reach beyond our day to day grind.

At the end of the night, 66 shoeboxes we’re shipped off with love and care, from students who are actively working out what it means to Love God, Love People, and Change the World.

Itinerary for Haiti

Cornerstone Church, Saskatoon Team

November 24^th – Dec 1st, 2009

Tuesday November 24, 2009

Morning           Leave Saskatoon, fly through Florida overnight

Wednesday November 25, 2009

6:55am            Eric’s Flight arrives in Miami

8:00am            Group Meets for prayer time.

9:50 am           Leave Miami, Florida

12:00 pm         Arrive in PAP   American Air Lines Flight# 1291

Afternoon        Lunch, settle in & orientation, tour facility

7:00pm            Dinner

10:00pm          Lights Out

Thursday November 26, 2009

6:00am            Devotions & Prayer  -  Eric Fawcett

7:00am            Breakfast

Morning           Visit town of Grand-Goave, community assessment

12:00pm          Lunch

Afternoon        Visit future building sites, discussion time

5:00pm            Dinner

10:00pm          Lights Out

Friday November 27, 2009

6:00am            Devotions & Prayer  Pastor Russ

7:00am            Breakfast                                           

Morning           Visit town of Grand-Goave, community assessment

12:00pm          Lunch

Afternoon        Visit future building sites, discussion time

5:00 pm           Dinner

10:00pm          Lights Out

Saturday November 28, 2009

6:00am            Devotions & Prayer  -  Loretta Penner

7:00am            Breakfast

Morning           Visit the market

1:00pm            Lunch

Afternoon        Meet with HAM leadership team, Taino Beach/ Rest

5:00pm            Dinner- Villa Taina

10:00pm          Lights Out

Sunday November 29, 2009

7:00am            Breakfast

9:00am            Church (Pastor Russ preach)

1:00pm            Lunch

Afternoon        Tapion Children’s Church

5:00pm            Dinner

10:00pm          Lights Out

Monday November 30th, 2009

6:00am            Devotions & Prayer  -  Mrs, Wilson

7:00am            Breakfast                                           

Morning           Possible Evangelism Door – Door

12:00pm          Lunch

Afternoon        Trip Assessment & Discussion on Future Partnership

5:00 pm           Dinner

10:00pm          Lights Out

Tuesday December 1st, 2009

6:00am            Devotions & Prayer  -  Brad Banman

9:00am            Breakfast & Leave for PAP

1:10pm            Flight leaves PAP for Miami  American Airlines Flight # 866

3:35pm            Flight Arrives in Miami

Wednesday December 2nd, 2009

3:35pm            Flight Leaves Miami

6:08pm            Flight Arrives in Minneapolis

9:30pm            Flight Leaves Minneapolis

11:59pm          Flight Arrives in Saskatoon

Cornerstone Connected – Fall Issue Available Now

Cornerstone’s magazine’s latest issue has just hit the stands!  Get a copy in the church lobby, or download a copy below.

Cornerstone Connected, Fall 2009 Issue

PWAP (Potluck With A Purpose) Blessings

I am blessed that God chose me!

I am blessed to have have health in my family.

I am thankful for the faith of children, the healing of God and for food!

I am thankful for the opportunity to go to L.A. to work in the inner city.

Dear Lord, thank you for generous blessings, your forgiveness, love car, family, friends, and church.

I’m thank for the creativity of a God who creates us with such unique passions, enjoyments, and pleasures, that we can have relationships, joy and laughter with many.

Thanks God for my sister, have a new baby boy, family came to Canada, safe and healthy (refugee family).

Summer Church

We will be meeting at 10:30 Sunday mornings for the summer.  Starts June 7th until September 13th.

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