Cornerstone Lately...

This past Tuesday, we joined with TOMS Shoes and thousands of others and went without shoes to raise awareness of the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child's life.

Save the date! Cornerstone Golf Tournament Monday, October 10, 2011

Medical Clinic
The North Texas Specialty Physicians (NTSP) Charitable Fund Board has announced the 2011 recipients of its patient care grant funding opportunities- one of which is the Cornerstone Medical Clinic! This $10,000 grant will complete the medical clinic fitness facility and obtain more exercise equipment for the Cardio Can Fitness exercise program. Thank you, North Texas Specialty Physicians!

Cornerstone welcomed Chef Joe Patrick on board April 1. We are excited to have him!

Medical Mission Day was a great success! Three visiting physicians, 8 medical students from UNT Health Science Center, and 4 TCU nursing students helped out. Click here to see pictures.

Read the recent blog post about Cornerstone Health Services!

Community Services
Thanks to our network partner North Richland Hills Baptist Church for participating in a food drive to benefit CAN. Thanks especially to the Singles Ministry and Minister Derek Rowden for heading it up.

CCWJC
5 women graduated from Cornerstone CWJC March 24^th! We are so proud of them. Three out of the 5 registered for college, and 2 of those began an additional computer class. One of the recent graduated called us the other day and said she thinks she’ll get the job she just interviewed for.

Although our next class won’t start up until August, there is a Friday language arts tutoring class on Fridays (that 4 of the students have been attending for over 1 year now!). We also plan to hold a finance workshop this summer.

The mentor support class that meets Tuesdays is growing! Want to be part of this incredible ministry? Contact Janet Powers at 817.632.6015 or jpowers@canetwork.org.

CWJC is so proud of 2010 Graduate Ana who not only completed her GED and CWJC training, but has now graduated from 7 months of computer courses with the Ladder Alliance. Ana stopped by last week to let us know our investment in her continues to bear fruit!

Janet Powers has been a certified CWJC coordinator for 1 year! We are beyond blessed to have her here at Cornerstone.

Thrift Store
Our HUGE anniversary sale was April 1 was a great success! If you missed it, don’t despair- we’ll have special sales the rest of this month to celebrate our 1 year anniversary!

Volunteer
Our volunteers rock! One helped move a client out of the New Life Center into his own apartment the other week. As they were moving stuff in, the volunteer noticed our client needed some extra things like a shower curtain, dish soap, etc. Later that night, our volunteer went to the dollar store on his own, went back to the gentleman's apartment and dropped off much needed supplies and a Bible!

Click here to see April’s volunteer opportunities.

Thank you, Lance and Eleanor Powers and the rest of the volunteers from Keystone Church who helped with the Thrift Store Anniversary Sale on April 2. You guys are top notch volunteers! We are grateful for your service!

Supportive Services
If you haven’t read the recent blog post Jenny Laing, our Client Case Aid wrote, you’ve got to check it out!

Taryn Freeze, our Director of Supportive Services, was in the back this week doing intakes and met with a homeless couple that had just moved into a duplex with the help of a partner church. They have been living in a tent for the last year and were so excited to have the opportunity to get some household items, food and clothes from our thrift store. The husband is an incredible poet and read her several of his poems. They were very thankful for the assistance they have received and wanted to give us a poem as a thank you. All of his poems were moving, but she asked him to pick out one that described how he felt about his experience at Cornerstone.

HOPE, FAITH AND LOVE

You show me each day, your unconditional love
A blessing I know, from my father above

To be simple and humble, to love one another
To walk hand in hand, as sisters and brothers.

To study the word, and walk with Christ
To spread the good news, each day of my life

To have faith and hope, and show others the way
With happiness and joy, every second of the day

Always do what you can, for someone in need
Fill your heart with the Spirit, and just believe

For the most previous gift, is God’s grace from above
And He blesses us all with

Hope

Faith

And Love

New Creations
New Creations is a new ministry, but growing fast! We’ve recently updated their page on our website. Check it out here.

WelcomeBack/Tarrant County
Our volunteer hours are up 30% from last year! That’s a good thing, because the numbers of parolees are growing as well and are projected to surpass 2400 this year.

Dalonika McDonald, the Supervisor of the DRC, is in the process of organizing an all-female orientation each month. We estimate that the orientations will start with 20-25 women and 5 leaders, and hope to see the number of leaders involved grow! Interested in learning more about serving women returning to Tarrant County in this way? Contact Jerry Cabluck, Director of WB/TC at 817.632.6000 ext. 106 or jcabluck@canetwork.org.

Intermediary Services
We got 13 more VISTAs approved for the summer!

Thank you, April Mitchell (Cornerstone’s Director of Fund Development), for giving a presentation at the last VISTA meeting!