We are committed to supporting the development of children and young people to their full potential. They are amazing and what we invest today is what we will reap tomorrow. This is why the organisation continues to be a rock of support to these growing minds.
Children
Cornerstone children have been engaged in a series of character enriching activities from December last year to date. The events and dates are as follows:
- End of year Bible character party - 27 Dec 2009
- Children's Day - 20 March 2010
- Funday outing at Hyde Park, Central london - 30 May 2010
- The Donut Man in concert - 26 September 2010 Tickets were sold out for this event. Thank you for your support
- Children's Party - 19 December 2010
- Day of Fellowship, Bracknell near Reading - 19 March 2011
Young People
Every other month the young people congregate with their parents and peers to worship our God and celebrate success.
The Youth retreat is hosted annually and so far it has held 4 successive retreats. The last three have all been UK based where they have been addressed, encouraged and counseled by various experts and professionals such as the police, successful business people, youth workers and a reformed offender. The last retreat was a two week trip to Nigeria in summer 2009. It was entitled ‘Youth Exchange Programme‘, the experience left a lasting impression on all 23 teenagers (13-19 year old) who took part. Apart from witnessing the way of life and culture, they were touched by the personal stories of a group of orphans at St Stephens Centre in Abeokuta, Western Nigeria. They also met with Royalty. We are grateful for the warm and generous hospitality of His Imperial Majesty, Oba Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse II, the Ooni of Ife and His Royal Majesty, Oba Adedokun Abolarin, the Orangun of Oke-Ila.
Our gratitude also goes to Professor and Mrs Kayode Makinde and the Board of Management of Babcock University for being such a wonderful host. We cannot leave out Pastor Buki Ajide and Victory Sanctuary Seventh-day Adventist Church, they were kind and loving. Elder Seyi Wright CEO of Leadership & Vision Ltd provoked them to aim high in order to reach high. Pastor Gbenga Adeoye and Pastor and Mrs Dele Olaore may the Lord richly reward them.We were humbled by the incredible generosity of Professor Michael Omolewa, Nigeria's former Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. The Cornerstone Youth Exchange Team was indeed wonderful. The parents of the young people were selfless, may their sacrifice be richly rewarded.
Space hinders us from thanking all who donated and worked tirelessly to make this project a success. We are most grateful to you all. For the future, we have plans to visit the Caribbean and the United States of America. Here are the personal and unedited accounts of Seun, Temitope and Femi.
Earlier in the year, our young people presented 'Hope for Tomorrow, Starts Now' at Clapton Community Seventh-day Adventist Church, an event for the community. It was inspiring to see them on fire for the Lord and we thank the Pastoral team and members of the church for inviting us. We are also grateful for their monetary donation to orphans at the St Stephens Centre, located in Abeokuta, South-west Nigeria. Thank you for supporting our young people, every kind deed helps.
On Sunday, 5th of December we celebrated the achievements of young people with a black-tie dinner at the Watford Hilton in Watford. In addition to the awards for young people, recognition of special guests (see home page) and dinner, the following were motivational statements shared by the special guests with our young people. Enjoy...
1. If opportunities you are looking for in life do not exist - Create them!
2. The way you are dressed is the way you'll be addressed.
3. Have clear goals in life.
4. You must believe in yourself.
5. Get a mentor.
6. Never make people's opinion of yourself a reality. Especially negative ones.
7. I may speak with an accent, but I don't think with an accent! ( I really really loved this one).
8. Goals are dreams with deadlines.
9. Break your dream down into small achievable bits and conquer them one at a time until the whole deed is done!
10. Your ability to think and do things differently from others is the 'extra' of becoming ''Extraordinary"!
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan but also believe.
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