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The History of CCA
● November 26, 2003 – To move or not to move – that
is the question!
We receive our final inspection on "the biggest septic field in the county" and
pass – our occupancy permit is issued. We can move!
● November 28, 2003 – It's the day after Thanksgiving and we are moving!
Over 150 people come to load 6 semi trailers and several box trucks and lots of
vans and cars. We begin at 7:00 AM and we are completely moved in by 11:30 AM!
After a lunch together on our new stage, the workers help unpack boxes and set
rooms in order. We hope to be ready for school Monday morning.
● November 29, 2003 – Moving is done, time to set up. Now that we're all
moved in, a volunteer support team began setting up our new network, servers,
racks, switches, and other (all donated!) equipment. We now have high–speed
Internet access and in–house email.
● December 1, 2003
The staff is tired, but very excited. Students arrive and each rush to a new
locker waiting just for them. And all we can say is "Look at what our Mighty God
has done!"
● January 2004
Donations keep coming in for the new building. We have an 8x8 screen donated by
a screen company. Cornerstone parents donate a projector. A local church donates
$1,000 for new folding chairs. Another set of parents donate a new sound system.
Yet another donate an additional refrigerator. Extra microwaves are given as
well as coffee pots. We have all that we need.
● February 2004
Our mural in the front is designed and painted by Julie Johnson. We decide on
the verse from Ps. 118 which perfectly describes Cornerstone's story – "The Lord
has done this and it is marvelous in our eyes." The entire project of building
the wall and painting the mural takes less than a week – just in time for our
Building Dedication!
● February 27, 2004 – Our Building Dedication Service – what a wonderful
evening this was!
● March–April 2004
One of the ongoing prayers of Cornerstone students is that God will grow grass
on our property so they will have a safe place to play. But we have no money for
grass seed or fertilizer. And even if we did, we also have no mower!
But the prayers continue for grass.
A man who owns a fertilizer company hears about the students' prayers, and
donates $4000 worth of grass seed for the school! A local farmer just happens to
have the kind of grass seeder we need to use, and another farmer donates all the
gas we need to plant 25 acres of grass.
With God, nothing is impossible.
● April 5, 2004 – And, if that wasn't enough for God to do, we also
receive a call today telling us an International C tractor with underbelly mower
will be given to the school to mow the grass once it's grown!
● July 7, 2004 – Looking at the schedule for this fall, it is apparent
that we will be using every room in the building every hour. Our choral music
room will also double as a high school Bible class. Desks are better for a
classroom situation, but stacking chairs are better for use in a music room. We
begin to pray for folding chairs with tablet arm desks attached that can be
folded down when not in use to make way for the stacking chairs normally used in
the music room.
Little did we know that God had already answered that request some 8 years ago.
In 1996, before Cornerstone was even founded, a group of people in
Bloomington/Normal were meeting to plan and pray about a new Christian school in
the community. Cornerstone Christian Academy would be the outcome of that
initial committee. A local church gave them some folding chairs with attached
tablet arm desks and one of the committee members has stored 75 of them in her
basement. After reading about the need in the school newsletter, she called to
see if we knew about those long–forgotten chairs. They were exactly what we had
been praying for!
● July 23, 2004 – Another one of the students' prayers this past spring
has been for a playground to be installed before school is to begin in the fall.
The price tag for the one we want is over $32,000. After one $10,000 gift, many
more smaller ones and bags of money from our students, a dad calls up and asks,
"How much more do you need for the playground? We tell him: "$13,115.95!" He
replies, "Why don't my wife and I come over and take care of that?"
God had answered another prayer!
We
wanted the students to be the first to know about God's answer, so postcards are
mailed to each and every one.
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