Cornerstone Church of Skippack is located in Skippack, just outside Philadelphia, and is known for its mission of making fully devoted disciples through biblical teaching, intergenerational community, and service reaching from Montgomery County to mission partners overseas. At 1326 Stump Hall Road, Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m. gathers the congregation to sing, pray, and hear Christ-centered sermons.
From a Basement Bible Study to Stump Hall Road
In September 1990, a basement Bible study at the Nelson home marked the beginning of what became Cornerstone Church of Skippack. The first congregation moved from that home to one school, then another, before settling at its present location on Stump Hall Road. That movement from a family basement to school locations and then a church building is part of the story behind a church that continues to emphasize discipleship, prayer, and the spread of the gospel to the next generation.
Cornerstone's mission is to glorify God by making as many people as possible fully devoted disciples of Jesus Christ. Cornerstone is an intergenerational community rooted in historic, biblical Christianity. It calls itself a family of imperfect people who struggle, fail, and are hurt, yet experience forgiveness, love, and transformation through Jesus. Humility, prayer, generosity, patience, and hope shape the life the congregation wants to live together.
Historic, biblical Christianity at the center
Cornerstone affirms that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, inerrant and infallible, and the final authority for life and faith. It confesses one God existing eternally as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus is affirmed as truly God and truly man, the mediator between God and humanity, and the substitutionary sacrifice whose death and resurrection make salvation available by grace through personal faith.
The church also holds that the Holy Spirit indwells, regenerates, sanctifies, teaches, convicts, and empowers believers; that the church is composed of those who place faith in Jesus; and that water baptism of believers and the Lord's Supper are to be observed. Its beliefs include the literal, bodily resurrection of both believers and unbelievers, eternal judgment, eternal joy for believers, and the imminent return of Christ for his church.
Sunday at 10:30 on Stump Hall Road
The Sunday rhythm begins with classes for all ages at 9:15 a.m. Sunday School is a time to study God's word, discuss how it encourages, challenges, or corrects people, share personal experience, and consider what God is doing in the present. Worship follows at 10:30 a.m., with singing, prayer, and Christ-centered preaching. People are welcome to come as they are, and Cornerstone emphasizes that Jesus welcomed people from every walk of life.
Children from birth through fifth grade have a Junior Church option during the 10:30 service. It uses age-appropriate Bible studies, activities, and games, while children remain free to worship with their families. A dedicated check-in station asks parents and guardians to complete a registration form, keeps the information confidential, and provides matching tags for the child and parent or guardian. Children's volunteers are cleared according to Pennsylvania standards.
On the third Sunday of each month, the Sunday School hour becomes House of Prayer. The congregation worships, prays individually, learns about prayer, hears updates from ministries and missionaries, and prays for one another. The worship gathering itself remains at 10:30, with the third-Sunday prayer meeting during the earlier class hour.
The building at 1326 Stump Hall Road is fully wheelchair accessible. Sunday worship takes place in Skippack, and the church also maintains a mailing address at P.O. Box 526 for correspondence.
Learning and Serving at Every Stage
Cornerstone's children's ministry treats children as a gift from God and works to point them to Jesus through safe, friendly learning and play. Nursery through fifth-grade students are served in both Sunday School and Junior Church. The Sunday-evening Summit Kids gathering welcomes children in kindergarten through fifth grade, whether or not they attend Cornerstone, and combines worship, a snack, prayer, age-level lessons, games, missions teaching, and verse memorization. The Children's Choir gives children another way to serve, rehearsing on Sunday evenings and singing in the 10:30 worship service on the fourth Sunday of the month.
For students in grades 6 through 12, Sunday School at 9:15 a.m. centers on questions such as what Scripture says, what it teaches, and how it changes life at home and school. The youth Bible study runs from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. on Sundays and adds small groups, Christ-centered friendships, and an atmosphere described as fun, sometimes silly, and serious about knowing and following Jesus.
RISE reaches college students, young adults in the workforce, and people establishing a career after college. Its Bible study meets from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. on the first, third, and fifth Mondays at leaders' homes, combining study of God's word, fellowship, and prayer for one another and the nations.
Growth Groups and Adult Ministry
Growth Groups are central to Cornerstone's discipleship model. They meet two or more times each month in homes around Montgomery County and are open to anyone who wants to join. Some are specific to a stage of life, while others bring generations together. Biblical discussion, prayer, accountability, fellowship, and evangelism shape the groups, which also seek to be places where people pray for, encourage, support, and challenge one another.
Men's Ministry focuses on spiritual growth, relationships, service, and leadership in the home, church, workplace, and wider community. Its Saturday morning Bible study runs from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. The ministry also emphasizes one-to-one discipleship, a nine-session practical course in the foundations of Christian faith, along with mentoring, father-son gatherings, breakfasts, retreats, and service projects.
Women-to-Women Ministry pursues discipleship, fellowship, evangelism, and outreach through Bible studies, Sunday School classes, intergenerational gatherings, and support for women affected by trauma and abuse. The ministry supports local organizations with needed supplies and services and hosts a workshop where experts address abuse and survivors share their stories. Thriving Women gathers on the third Tuesday of each month for prayer, fellowship, and study.
Encore serves people age 55 and older with an emphasis on continued growth, giving, and service. Its activities include prayer, devotions, Bible study, support for local ministries, attention to the needs of others, group activities, trips, dinners, and meals out. Living Forward is a separate ministry for widows and widowers, offering twice-monthly gatherings, shared meals, social outings, and monthly restaurant gatherings centered on fellowship, conversation, laughter, and support through the season of widowhood.
Service That Reaches Beyond the Meeting Room
Cornerstone's Meals Ministry provides meals for people in difficult seasons, including those recovering from surgery, a new baby, a difficult diagnosis, or a death in the family. The church also builds service into the life of the congregation through growth-group childcare, chair setup, ushers, greeters, children's ministry, kitchen service, and women's and men's ministries. The weekly chair setup team prepares 400 to 500 chairs before worship.
Local partnerships extend that service. Amnion is a pregnancy care center where people with medical training can serve, while YoungLives supports parents in their teens and early twenties through childcare and mentoring. Cornerstone also encourages volunteers to use practical skills in plumbing, information technology, finance, and other areas to meet needs within the congregation.
Thursday volleyball is open to everyone age 16 and above, regardless of skill level. The multipurpose room becomes a space for pick-up games before a Circle Up leader gives a brief, often engaging presentation about the gospel. The setting turns an ordinary weeknight activity into both fellowship and a neighborhood-facing expression of the church's mission.
A Mission Reaching from Montgomery County to the Nations
Cornerstone gives one fourth of its annual budget to missions and describes its mission as making disciples both locally and globally through partnerships with foreign and domestic missionaries. The local emphasis appears in Growth Groups, churchwide service, ministry to families, and outreach that supports local pregnancy care, young parents, vulnerable women, and people in need of meals. The global network includes:
- Maria Gusmao, or Cida, a missionary in Recife, Brazil, working through Bible Centered Ministries in urban and rural settings. Cornerstone sends groups to assist her and learn from her ministry.
- Chariots for Hope in Kaptagat, Kenya, caring for vulnerable and orphaned children through healthy children's homes that offer opportunity and hope.
- Tim and Donna Sirinides in Athens, Greece, serving refugees through Helping Hands, a refugee center, home hospitality, outreach, discipleship, and shelter ministry.
- Ben and Susie Thomas and B2THEWORLD in Kigali, Rwanda, supporting transformative education for children, parents, and families in countries recovering from war, with partnerships in Rwanda and Pakistan and development work in the Middle East.
- Arab World Trainer, equipping Arab-speaking Christians and non-Christians to read and understand the Bible and equipping churches to make disciples through inductive studies.
- Potter's House in Guatemala, developing long-term relationships and community centers through family development, education, health and nutrition, micro-enterprise, and community development.
- The Oser family in George, South Africa, focusing on church planting, theological training, and gospel expansion along the Garden Route.
These partnerships keep Cornerstone's mission connected to concrete work in other places. The same emphasis on making disciples runs through the church's Sunday classes, homes where Growth Groups meet, volunteer service, meals, and support for families in the local community.
Worship Online and Giving with Purpose
Cornerstone's 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service is livestreamed through Boxcast for people unable to gather in person. Cornerstone calls the livestream a blessing while emphasizing that it is not a substitute for the life of the gathered congregation, where worship happens through singing, prayer, listening, fellowship, and shared service. A sermon archive is also available for revisiting the church's biblical teaching.
Giving supports the mission locally in the congregation and globally through the missionaries Cornerstone supports. People can give by cash or check in the offering box, by mail, through a bank's online bill-pay service, or online through Planning Center Giving. Online gifts can be made by debit card or e-check, and the church also provides app access for regular giving. The ways to give include those same options.
The 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship livestream connects those unable to gather with the church's continuing Sunday rhythm.
Cornerstone Church of Skippack continues to organize its life around one conviction: glorifying God by forming fully devoted disciples through worship, biblical teaching, intergenerational fellowship, service to neighbors, and partnerships that carry the gospel from its Skippack home into the wider world.