Our church planting network is prioritizing eleven counties that have: Growing cities over 10,000 A growing population of over 40,000 in the county Has a university or college The map below shows our progress and plans:   Any input? Which are the priority cities in Iowa? See also

A couple of observations from today’s Des Moines Register that have some church planting relevance: Highest county increase was Dallas County gained 62%, Dallas county contains the highest city population increase: Waukee at 169%. It was no accident that we chose Waukee as a loc

Veritas Church, Fall 2011 Had another meeting with someone from our denomination’s state convention leadership yesterday. Again the conversation moved past the tremendous fruit and ministry progress that has come from God at Veritas Church in Iowa City. After only twelve months of min

Iowa’s Growing Cities Cornerstone Network is in three of the six large, growing cities, Ames, West Des Moines (Waukee), and Iowa City. Other three are Council Bluffs, Davenport, and Cedar Rapids.

The mission of Home for Awhile is to assist individuals and families who are homeless, but show potential to become self-sufficient if provided short-term transitional housing. Home For Awhile February Newsletter

Observations: Dallas County and Johnson County are the fastest growing counties. They were the locations of the last two churches Cornerstone Church of Ames helped to start. The next two are Polk County and Warren County.  The strategy input here is to consider church planting sites b