Here with, in random order, some of the results from a survey sent to our graduates. The particular question asked students to list some of the lessons they’d learned during their year(s) at Cornerstone:

  • Receiving a good basis of Bible knowledge and a basic understanding of cultural issues
  • Learning to look beyond one’s own cultural horizon
  • Becoming more relaxed about one’s own perfectionism
  • Gaining cross-cultural experience, and learning to understand cultural and character differences
  • “Getting to know myself better during my time at Cornerstone”
  • Appreciating other forms in which the Christian faith is expressed
  • “As a task oriented person it was helpful for me to see the value of being among people rather than (only) learning from books and theory.”
  • The fact that being is more important than doing
  • Learning to trust and wait for God to give both the ability and to provide what is needed–according to His timing of things
  • Learn the importance and the “how-to” of working together in cross-cultural teams
  • Getting used to living a simple life style.
  • Learning and practicing praying together in unity of spirit
  • Developing a willingness to do tasks that do not appear to be ‘great mission work’
  • Learning how to communicate with people of different cultural back grounds