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The History of CCA
● February 20, 1999 – Unit 5 gives us enough
computers that we can upgrade our current computer lab and add an additional 11
stations.
We begin to pray for 11 monitors to go with them.
● March 1, 1999 – Grandparents donate money for two of the needed
monitors.
9 more to go!
● March 23, 1999 – God provides more monitors!
One of our Dads who happened to be a Normal policeman pulled up in his truck
that morning and unloaded – you guessed it – nine computer monitors. They had
been confiscated by the Normal police at 2:00 AM that morning from a curbside
under the suspicion that they were stolen property. When it was found out that
they weren't, our Dad was able to acquire them for us. We took them all into the
lab and tested them, and they all worked!
God had specifically answered our prayer!
At 10:00 AM, another CCA Dad came into the building carrying a computer monitor,
and asked if we still needed it. We had just enough, but we said, ‘sure.' At
11:00 AM, when we turned the lab on, one of our current monitors quit, and so
the ‘extra' one that was provided only one hour earlier was not really an
‘extra' one at all. God gave it to us just in time!
● July 1999 – Work begins on upstairs bathrooms. With 5 classrooms on the
top floor, we've gone long enough without facilities. The church that houses us
offers to give us $6,000 to help defray the cost of the bathrooms, but we have
prayed that we would be a blessing to this small church, so we refuse their
money and instead do what we have learned to do so many times . . . we PRAY.
A CCA Dad who is an electrician began working on new lights. Parents took down
mirrors from their own bathrooms at home and donated them. We were able to buy
floor tile at cost. Plumbers offered their services. We called a local store and
inquire about two 6' vanities with double sinks. Did they have any "scratch and
dent"? They didn't, but the kind woman on the other end of the phone offered to
pay for half of the cost herself. We wrote a letter to State Farm asking for
enough ceiling tile for the bathrooms as well as the new classrooms we were
building out. They responded that they normally don't give away ceiling tile,
but this once, they would. We were given over 2000 square feet. We called a door
company to come and measure for classroom doors as well as our bathroom doors.
The estimate was $650. We placed the order. After leaving CCA, the door man went
by the home of one of our donors where he measured for a door. He happened to
mention that he had just left Cornerstone. The donor called and said it couldn't
be a coincidence. God must want them to pay for our doors. When the check
arrived, it had $650 for our doors and $10,000 for the scholarship fund!
● August 25, 1999 – School begins – with our new bathrooms!
Only one thing is yet to be finished. We do not have bathroom stalls. We quickly
find that no one wants to use bathrooms that don't have stalls . . .
● November 19, 1999 – Help! We need bathroom stalls!
It seems as if we should go ahead and purchase the stalls. After measuring the
bathrooms, we submitted a drawing for bathroom stall blueprints to be drawn up.
We also gave the company $1,000 as a deposit on what will be a very expensive
part of our bathrooms!
● November 24, 1999 – The blueprints are ready.
We picked up the blueprints to be checked by our installer (a volunteer, of
course!) But it was the day before Thanksgiving and everyone was very busy, so
the prints sat on a desk until the following week. We continued to forget to
have our volunteer check them on Monday and Tuesday. But then on Wednesday
afternoon, a truck pulled into our parking lot and unloaded – you guessed it –
bathroom stalls! Where did they come from? Well, Eastview Christian Church had
recently moved from their Towanda Avenue location to their new building, and
they had allowed another church to come in and take what they wanted from the
old building. The men from this church had taken (among other things) bathroom
stalls from two bathrooms. After the truck was loaded and headed back to their
church, someone asked, "Why did we take those bathroom stalls?" To which someone
else stated, "I think Cornerstone Christian Academy needs bathroom stalls." They
turned the truck around and brought them right to our door! They were cut and
bolted together and fit just fine in our new bathrooms. What's even better – we
were able to get our $1,000 back!
God had done it again.
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