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The History of CCA
● December 27, 2002 – A local man who is interested
in sending his young children to CCA when they are older calls the school and
asks how he can make a small donation. We tell him to drop the check by or mail
it to us. His wife drops off a check for $10,000!
God is abundant in His goodness to us!
● December 31, 2002 – God has blessed us with a band program this year,
but we don't have music stands for them to use. Our band students begin to pray
for stands. A parent donates enough money for two music stands. We are excited
and awed by God's quick response to our prayers! The music stands are ordered.
When they arrive, we find that the company has made a mistake. Instead of
sending two individual stands, they have sent us two cases of music stands – 12
in all! When we call the company, they tell us that it is too expensive to send
a truck to the school to pick up 10 stands and re–inventory them. They tell us
just to keep them!
God is amazing and works in mysterious ways!
● Spring 2003
We are very busy with choosing things for the new building. A lot of time is
spent on the color of block, windows, roofing as well as interior choices of
carpet and gymnasium flooring. The decision is made to install a geo–thermal
system instead of the usual HVAC system. This will add almost $130,000 to the
overall price – something we can't afford – but will pay for itself in less than
7 years.
We apply for a grant through the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation to
partially fund our geo–thermal system. It seems like a long shot, but we will
pray that God will go before us.
The building is taking shape!
● August 4, 2003 – We receive word that we have been awarded $100,000
from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation to be used for our
geo–thermal system! Praise the Lord!
● August 19, 2003 – The Scoreboard story . . .
Among the many things we are praying for that we don't have the money to
purchase are scoreboards for our gymnasium. Mrs. Kinzinger calls over to Central
Catholic and inquires about their scoreboards left at their old school. She is
told by the principal's secretary that they have been promised to another
Catholic school. She tells the secretary to put her name down in case that other
school was not interested in them.
● September 3, 2003 – We begin school with 347 students in preschool
through 9th grade!
● October 7, 2003 – Mrs. Kinzinger has a quote for a very small
scoreboard from Nevco Scoreboard Company in St. Louis sitting on her desk. It is
over $2,600 and we pray about whether to buy one or somehow do without.
● October 8, 2003 – A man from Central Catholic calls the school today
and tells us that he is in charge of disposing of equipment from their old
building.
Among the items he had to sell at a greatly reduced price were shelving units,
old desks, commercial refrigerators and . . . SCOREBOARDS! When we heard the
scoreboards were still available, we acted quickly. The next night we went to
Central Catholic and looked at the scoreboards. One was a small unit, while the
other was a full sized one. Together new, they would cost almost $10,000. We
left that night having purchased them for $900.
After some great work by our Cornerstone men, the scoreboards came down from
Central Catholic and were brought to our new building. Our painters soon had the
royal blue changed into dark green, and we think they are just beautiful!
The amazing part of this story: After we had agreed to purchase the scoreboards,
we stood talking with the man from Central Catholic who had called us in the
first place. We told him how nice it was that the principal's secretary had
remembered that we might be interested in the scoreboards. The man got a puzzled
look on his face and he said, "No, she didn't call me. I was sitting at my desk
at work thinking about what other schools in the area might want some of our
stuff. And it popped into my head that Cornerstone was just featured in the
Pantagraph as getting ready to move into their new building. So I took a chance
and called you."
God had done it again. We stand in awe.
● November 13, 2003 – Since we're moving in a few weeks, we've been
praying for a keyboard to use in our new building since we've been using the
church's piano for our music classes. A parent has heard of our prayers, and has
decided we can go to the music store and pick out any one we want.
God is so good to give us supportive families!
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