A Renewal Journey

In 2018 the Baldwin Church of Christ (now the Cornerstone Church of Christ) was a typical church. But they didn’t want to be typical. They wanted to be more. Here’s what their preacher, Keith Caselman, has to say:

“Leadership at Cornerstone, a century plus old church with less than 100 members, understood the overwhelming evidence and trends of failing churches fitting our demographic. We refused to accept that we would become another statistic in the arena of a dying church. 

“With the help and Stan Granberg and his wife Gena we formulated a plan to attend a Kairos Church Planting (a Heritage21 partner) three-day training with our ministers and eldership. The three-day training challenged us to reimagine what ‘church’ looked like. They stretched our ideas and concepts of how to build the body of Christ, not just to grow in numbers, but how to develop a plan of growing deeply committed disciples of Christ. 

“In the training Kairos provided us a framework that allowed our church, as a unique body of Christ, to develop our own plan of rebirth and renewal. The systematic method of this framework brought our leadership to a better understanding of our collective vision of the future for the church. It was a demanding process that was extremely helpful in building unity and continuity of our dream for what we could become in our community. Not only did Kairos provide the framework of our Ministry Development Plan, a step by step process for building a new or re-establishing a church, but during the very intense training sessions they provided proven practices that work in maximizing your efforts in reaching the unique community around you.”