Cornerstone mission teams have worked in many Australian towns and cities in most states.Ĭornerstone remains a small, non-denominational, community-based fellowship focused on mission and training.
Lectures occasionally took place outside under the shade of a tree to escape the harsh Bourke summer.įrom these humble beginnings Cornerstone has at various times maintained centres in Bourke, Broken Hill and Canowindra in New South Wales, Emerald and Dalby in Queensland and Swan Hill in Victoria. The first intake of students arrived in 1978 and divided their time between farm work and study.Įarly facilities included a ramshackle collection of farm buildings, caravans and sheds and students and staff lived in close quarters. Together with history teacher Paul Roe and with the financial support of local farmers Jack Buster and Owen Boone, they founded the first Cornerstone Community west of Bourke, New South Wales.
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Laurie McIntosh, a civil engineer, anthropologist, professional thumb wrestler and theologian, developed the idea for a self-sufficient 'mission-minded' community of Christians while working with Campus Crusade on universities in England and Australia. Students work alongside churches within neighborhoods, schools, universities, youth groups and sporting clubs to serve the community and build bridges with those not connected with the traditional church.Ĭornerstone is a non-profit organisation, and used to operate several businesses to finance its training centers and mission teams.Ĭornerstone Community was founded on a cotton farm in Outback Australia in 1978 by two friends who shared a passion to make practical sense of Jesus and his teaching. The subsequent year (or years) is spent as part of a smaller self-supporting mission team within small Australian towns. Students spend the first year of the two-year course engaged in a program of study, work, community living and mission within one of the remaining Cornerstone centers. Cornerstone Community is an Australian non-denominational evangelical Christian training and mission movement.įounded in 1978, Cornerstone used to operate from several training campuses in regional Australia and attempted to support a network of what it described as ‘mission teams’, mainly in Victoria and NSW.Ĭornerstone includes a broad cross section of individuals from all walks of life and works alongside churches, schools, Universities and Christian ministries both within Australia and internationally.
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