CORNERSTONE CHILDREN'S RANCH, INC
"Where Christ is the Cornerstone "
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Who we are…

Cornerstone Children’s Ranch

 is a non-profit Christian organization reaching out to the children and families along

 the Texas-Mexico border.  We partner with leaders, organizations, and churches in

 order to positively transform one of the most transitional and volatile places in the

 United States.  Cornerstone was founded as a 501(c)3 in 1998 by Steve and Lori

 Mercer who still serve as Missionaries and Managers of the Ranch.

Why are we here?

 

Our mission

 is to care for the widows, orphans, and families and love them as God loves them,

both physically and spiritually. We saw the need for such a relief work here, and

have grown from a small store to a 6000 square foot warehouse, a staff house, a new

 office, and six apartments on 10 acres in the outskirt of Quemado.

 

What do we do?

 

Ø  Coordinate distribution of food to hungry children and their families through our food warehouse, helping meet hunger needs of 30,000 people along the border.

Ø  Provide clothing and other necessities to children and families working through local pastors and churches.

Ø  Minister to children who are US Citizens but whose parents are not.  We call these children “caught in the gap.” 

Ø  Advocate and help children who are victims of human trafficking.

Ø  Partner with groups wishing to minister along the Texas-Mexico borderlands.

 

 

The Statement of Faith

 upon which

Cornerstone Children’s Ranch

is founded and shall permanently exist is as follows:

Where Christ is the Cornerstone of this Ranch

Ø  We believe the Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God, and inerrant in the original writing; and that it is of supreme and final authority in faith and life.

Ø  We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Ø  We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man.

Ø  We believe that man was created by God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and that those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought, word, and deed.

Ø  We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins as  the Scriptures tell us, as a representative and total sacrifice; and all who believe in Him are justified, are born of the Spirit, have become the children of God, and are new creatures in Him.

Ø  We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body or our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.

Ø  We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting consciousness of the lost.

Ø  We believe that Christians, those born of the Spirit, are to live the new life in the power of the Spirit; and his normal attitude of life is to yield himself to God, trusting God to keep him.