Ministry Opportunities!

There are lots of opportunities to get more involved here at Cornerstone!

The All You Need is Love ESL Mission is hosting very successful weeks of classes and 2 dozen women attending.  This is a great need in our community and the students are excited and appreciative.  We need more help with teaching and childcare. If you can commit to a few hours on Wednesday mornings contact Donna Millet at ESL@cornerstonecary.org

Sunday morning help:  We are in need of Lay Leaders, Greeters,  Offering Collectors, Coffee Makers, and Refreshment Coordinators on Sunday mornings.  Please contact the office for more info or sign up here. (You must create a SignUp Genius Account to sign up)   

Handymen and Women: The Building and Grounds committee could use more help. If you can caulk, replace a lightbulb, paint trim, or scrub algae off the fountains please contact the church office.

Cornerstone Choir: Come make joyful noise! Choir practice has resumed on Wednesday evenings at 7:15. If you would like to join contact our Music Director, Grant at grantosborne.go@gmail.com.

Ladies Bible Study

Ladies Morning Stars Bible Study:  Join us the 2nd & 4th Friday of each month beginning at 9:45am. This year we’ll start by studying Colossians a Biblical Study by Joyce Meyer. All women are welcome to join any time. 

Stewardship 2024

Thank you to all who have already submitted your pledge cards for the coming year.  If you have not, please prayerfully discern what you are able to give.  Remember, this is a good-faith estimate.  You may not be able to meet your pledge or perhaps you’ll surpass it.  Who knows what 2024 will hold!  But, your pledge allows Session to better budget for the coming year.  Can we increase mission gifts?  Can we offer raises?  Can we subsidize a youth summer trip?  Remember, God loves a cheerful   giver!

Men’s Bible Study goes Zoom!

Join the guys Thursday mornings at 7:30a.m. via zoom for Men’s Bible Study.  We’ll meet for an hour of Bible study, fellowship, and prayer.  Whether you have been studying the Bible for years or you have never been to a Bible study, this one is for you.  To join the meeting, click this link:https://zoom.us/j/675408802?pwd=V09uR3ZQUzhQRVhRSVBaVTdETVAvUT09

Meeting ID: 675 408 802   Password: 747947

Stitch Together

Stitch together meets the first, third, and fifth Fridays of each month from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.  Come join us as we knit & crochet items for Wake Med. Contact the church office.

Cornerstone Welcomes our new Director of Youth Ministry

Brandi Kirkland has joined Cornerstone as our Director of Youth Ministry. Brandi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Bible and Christian Ministry from Johnson University and has led in family ministry for almost two decades in a variety of churches. For the last four years, Brandi has worked as a church consultant with Ministry Architects, helping pastors and church leaders around the country find creative ways to reach more people sustainably. Now, she is overjoyed to be going back to her roots in youth ministry.

Cornerstone Welcomes Melinda Merkley King

Cornerstone’s Session is excited to announce that Melinda King has accepted our offer to serve as CPC’s Bridge Interim Pastor.  Melinda has led many of our recent worship services and has known our congregation since before Fred was called to be our Pastor. With the blessing of the Presbytery’s Commission on Ministry, Melinda will work in our church office four days a week. If you need to contact Melinda please reach out to her through the church office.  Having filled our Bridge Interim role, the Session’s focus will turn to the next steps in our path to a new Senior Pastor.  We’ll share more updates in the coming weeks.

Rev. Melinda Merkley King is originally from Delaware, Melinda and is a graduate of James Madison University and Union Presbyterian Seminary.  She has served churches in central North Carolina as solo pastor, youth director, supply preacher, and, most recently, nearly eleven years as an associate pastor at the Kirk of Kildaire.  She and her husband Brian have two young adult sons. Oliver, a software engineer, lives in Atlanta, and Isaac, a student at NCSU. Melinda’s favorite things include good food, good books, good exercise, good music, and good times with family and friends.  Her favorite places include beaches, botanical gardens, thrift stores, and especially churches, where Christ’s body gathers together to pray, praise, learn, laugh, care and share.