Cornerstone church
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NOTE: For the Cornerstone Church located in San Antonio, Texas
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, United States
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, see John Hagee
John Hagee
John Charles Hagee is an American founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational charismatic megachurch with more than 19,000 active members...

.


Cornerstone Church, is an independent evangelical
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 church in Nottingham
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, England. It is one of the largest churches in Nottingham, with some 600 people coming together to worship God each Sunday morning.

History

The church was founded in 1825, as an overflow of the Stoney Street Baptist Church from Nottingham city centre.

Location

Cornerstone Church meets at the Wollaton Park campus of the Nottingham Bluecoat School on Sutton Paseys Crescent in Wollaton, Nottingham.

The school is located near to the University Park and Jubilee campuses of the University of Nottingham
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 and contributes to making Cornerstone a popular choice for students there.

Services

There are two main services at Cornerstone on a Sunday: the morning service meets at 10:30 am; the evening service meets at 6:30pm.

Affiliations

The church is affiliated to the Evangelical Alliance
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 and the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches
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Staff, Pastors and Elders

As a large church in a busy city, Cornerstone has a number of different ministries and responsibilities including: outreach to the Persian community, youth work and working alongside the large student populations. To cope with this, Cornerstone has a large team:

Pastors

The Senior Pastor is Peter Lewis, he has been the minister of Cornerstone since September 1969. Colin Webster is the assistant minister, John Russell the minister in training, whilst Pete Brown is the youth minister.

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