Cornerstone Bible School - Dan Weaver 6-9-2024

Cornerstone Bible School report. Height just had a couple of comments about twenty twenty

four mostly I'm going to give a little what was planning for twenty twenty five

term. But twenty twenty four term there was sixty eight students went, which

is basically capacity. Sixty eight to seventy students went very well. There was

a very cooperative spirit among the students, seemed like they were engaged there to

learn, and I'd just like to thank everyone for your support for the people,

students, families contributed to it. Staff, many of you have been

involved in the past, and also the providing of food and helping with a

setup, takedown of course funds. I like technoledgees. A few people were

you know, it's a Cornerstone Bible School began in twenty eleven. There's some

that have been involved pretty much since the beginning. With Nolan Bechdel's off the

board now he's been pretty much. I think there's maybe one year he was

off and before now and he's also been there his staff seven years. His

principal three of those years I nat taught. I believe it was six years

there he's taught to school children. So they've they've contributed heavily. I'd like

to thank you for your service. Also Marvin and Pam Shruck. Marvin's been

principal of the last three years. I believe fam has served as matron for

six years. I went back to the records and tried to count. So

if I got these years wrong, I bet forgive me. And then Marvin's

taught four years besides that, he's not planning to come back and will miss

him. There's also one that probably a lot of you'd almost forget he's involved.

I call him the silent one. That's Paul Krupp. He served as

assistant principal for five years then, i'd believe, and taught beyond that.

Also, Marla has served as matron I think it was six years there as

well, and he's been the chairman of the board the last few years.

This is his final year. This term's ending in the I guess he'll continue

on through this next term, and he's going to be missed. His thoughtful,

deliberate and steady contribution is it mostly goes unnoticed but should be acknowledged.

So the current board, as I mentioned, Paul Krupp as chairman. Neil

Hackman is assistant chairman and treasurer, Tim Conley's secretary, and Phil Kaufman's a

business administrator, and I'm also on the board. I'll just go over the

staff for twenty twenty four, Duyne Martin myself I plan to take the role

of principal Assistant principle, and our wives Cheryl Marlene as matres and dorm coordinators.

Tyan Jen Zimmerman are coming back for that, along with Kent my son

Kendall assisting him Secretary Michelle Torkilsen. Brian and Michelle Martin are planning to come

as cooks, and we're still working on the cook's helper list for laundry.

Audrey Martin, Jerlyn Scars and Bernie Beachy. Jonathan Rbs planning and coming back

for as course director. For teachers, we'd have David Rubio, Louis graber

Leland's air I'll return, Tim Conley and Emanuel Yoder. We're still working on

a couple more with that. And then for revival meetings, we have Joseph

Miller from Seymour, Missouri planning to come and John Smucker from Missions Contract.

The registration where the students opens again on July first again Western Fellowship students have

priority until September. One. I would encourage go to the early side,

don't wait till the last minute, because that we really prefer you apply online.

It makes our life so much easier. And also put in an email

address for your minister. Go ahead and contact them and let them know.

It's a lot easier than the phone, because it seems like it's hard for

people to get write phone numbers in as well, and so that'd be just

it help us out. But there's things that need that happened before September when

we approved the applications, so it's nice if you work on the early side.

But so tuition is five hundred and seventy five per student, and that

includes a couple of years. I maybe last year was the first year.

We include the books and a program CD and some things with that. It's

an all in fee, but the total cost of Bible School is about set

between seventeen and eighteen hundred dollars per student, So that's made up by donations

and like to thank you for your support in that it's an investment into the

Kingdom. And I remember about halfway through Bible School last year, one of

the young boys come up to me and he said, how is this paid

for it? He says, our tuition, There's no way it covers.

We're eating so good and everything's going so good here while you're doing There's no

way that our tuition covers this. And I would just say he was astute

young man. He recognized that that's not normal for people to think about that,

but it is a reality. It's true, and yeah, thank you,

thank you for your investment. As suit seems like most years that the

the money's there and we appreciate that. So one thing I just wanted to

talk about a little bit here today. This is something that came kind of

as a result of COVID, and we have implemented a visitor policy that's a

little more restricted than what we're used to. And to be honest, I

really struggled with this a lot personally because I feel like hospitality is our eighth

ordinance and it's just hard to say no to visitors. But also from a

Bible school standpoint, it can be really disruptive, especially at the wrong time.

So just in what we've done the last couple of years, and we're

probably it will probably become pretty normal. I would guess because at the first

weekend there's no visitors while we're trying to get settled in. Parents and ministry

are welcome to come visit. Other than that, in other words, if

you don't have that connection to Bible School, we asked that. We've been

opening Wednesdays up for visitors, and then you know, as it gets to

the end, be thinking about recording and some of that, and certainly if

there's a conflict with travel, we can be contacted and work something out.

We appreciate and love to have the interaction, but also it can become pretty

heavy load for the camp and especially the cooks if we don't know what to

plan for. So thank you for your respect and honoring that. Again,

I'm still in favor of the eighth Ordinance hospitality. I think we need to

practice that. Yeah, that's just it's kind of where we came and we're

open to input on that. I think one other thing we should acknowledge is

past drops. Here was the first year that the camp was fully owned by

the Western Fellowship, were fully in control. I should say, we're still

working on the ownership part, and it was We appreciate the improvements they made

there. I'm not going to take away from the next topic, but it

has really reduced the things that we planned together, and it's really reduced the

setup and takedown time, both the setup and the takedown. Another thing we've

done last year was the first year we'll continue is asking students that aren't either

from driving a long distance and need to leave early or flying any of those

from local or that can, we'd like them to stay and help put things

back away on Saturday morning so they don't just get up and say audios and

go. It was a great time of working together there. I think it

was most of it was done in two hours, and it was It worked

really nicely, and we'll probably continue that again. Thank you all for your

support and UH for your prayers.