JUNIOR HIGH SUNDAY SCHOOL

On Sunday we had our first lesson of the new school year. We started a unit called, "Pictures of God." It will be 12 lessons long and the first topic was, "God is Like a Gift." Our main verse was Ephesians 2:8, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God."

Our goals for this week are to:
1. Understand why God is like a gift
2. Understand how we can be a gift to others by giving ourselves
3. Write out a plan of action for being a gift this week.

We were challenged to pick a person, and to be a gift to that person either:
loving them
encouraging them
serving them
reaching out to them
listening to them
other:_________________

Our next lesson will be, "God is Like Water."

DEEP THOUGHTS

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

"Anger" is just one letter short of "danger."

FREE COMMUNITY CARWASH

Today Cornerstone had its annual car wash at the Markham Village Community Centre. We washed around 60 cars for free (with no strings attached). It was a great chance to show our love (and God's) for the community as well as meet some great people.

JUNIOR HIGH SUNDAY SCHOOL

We are officially on break for the summer as a junior high group. We took this opportunity to thank our volunteers and their families for a great year. Missing from the picture are Sarina and Kevin

YOUTHQUEST BASKETBALL

Tonight we had a celebration dinner for all the volunteers. We had a great time eating at Frankie's!!!

Thanks guys for another fantastic year and your part in making Cornerstone YouthQuest basketball at Greensborough a dynasty.

JUNIOR HIGH SUNDAY SCHOOL

Today we had our final Sunday school lesson of the school year. We talked about what we learned over the year and took turns sharing memory verses. Over the summer, we will take turns volunteering in the children's ministry.

DEEP THOUGHTS

For most of my life, when I heard messages about following Jesus, I thought in terms of trying hard to be like him... It generally didn't work any better than would my trying hard to run a marathon for which I had not trained. I would end up exhausted and defeated. Given the way we are prone to describe "following Jesus," it is a wonder anyone wants to do it at all. Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely - John Ortberg.