How to give to Cornerstone

Giving a One-Off Gift to Cornerstone

​To financially support the work of Cornerstone by making a one-off gift by credit/debit card, please click on the button below:

Giving from the USA : Friends of Cornerstone

If you live in the USA and would like to give to the work of Cornerstone you can do so by clicking on this link. ​

Giving Regularly to Cornerstone

If you would like to financially support the work of Cornerstone by setting up a regular standing order, please set up a giving account with Stewardship (this is very straightforward) and select Cornerstone as the chosen recipient.  This can be done either:

• online; or,
• on paper forms. and Direct Debit Form.

Our account with Stewardship enables Gift Aid (extra money from the government) to be claimed on your donation if you are a UK income tax payer.

Questions about Giving?

If you have any questions about giving to Cornerstone or setting up a Stewardship giving account, please don't hesitate to contact our treasurer Alan McCrae

Our Charity Status 
Cornerstone​ St Andrews is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Scottish Charity Number: SC045194).

​How We Steward God's Money

​Our Budget Priorities

Our belief that the people of God are collectively His means of carrying out His mission to the world dictates our financial priorities.  All money given to the church will be stewarded in a way that reflects the priority of mission.

Our Budget Principles

We wish to be transparent and accountable about how we steward all money given to the church.

We seek to practice the following principles:

1. Stewardship - our money is God’s money and we are stewards. Our first responsibility is in prayer to seek God for what He would want done with this money.
2. Faith - we trust God to provide for all of our needs as a church. We are not therefore seeking to live safely within what we already have. Rather we try to discern what God is leading us to do as a church and then trust Him to provide the necessary means. Our approach to budgeting is based on the reality of a God who is real, active and answers prayer.
3. Generosity - we seek to be generous with all we have as God has been generous with us. We pray we will be a church of God’s people who are characterised by radical generosity. 
4. People first -  we seek to prioritize investing in people for service above everything else. 
5. Mission giving - at least 10% of our budget is devoted to supporting a range of mission work that is not led by Cornerstone. 

Who looks after our finances?

Our Treasurer is Alan McCrae.  if you have any questions about Cornerstone's budget, income or expenditure, please don't hesitate to contact Alan.
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After our Sunday Gathering, the offering is counted and recorded by two people and deposited into our bank account.

The signatories on the Cornerstone bank account are:

• Alan McCrae
• Sylvia Roberts
• Becky Stojanovic

Our Charity Status

Cornerstone St Andrews is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Scottish Charity Number: SC045194).

​Financial Partnerships

Cornerstone commits to giving a minimum of 10% of the received offering to non-Cornerstone led Christian mission work. This paper aims to explain something of the vision for these financial partnerships. 

Aims of Financial Partnering

Cornerstone believes that it is important that our giving would not only serve to imitate the generosity of God, but would also serve to enhance our congregations understanding of the true nature and scope of biblical mission. This would include the reality that Gods mission is to all things and all people in all places. Gods mission is to the whole of creation; it’s Jesus making all things new. 

Although we cant give to all things in every place our partnerships do aim to demonstrate something of the diverse nature of mission, and so we see in our partners a broad representation of various types of mission work in various places all over the world.

Our current partners/arrangements are:

(i) Release International: Supporting persecuted Christians around the world.
(ii) Tearfund: A major player in relief and development around the world. 
(iii) Parish Nursing: A local outreach to the elderly in this area.
(iv) K2: Taking the Gospel to local school children. 
(v) Laura Simmonds: part of a church planting mission in Descartes, France.
(vi) Short Term Programme Fund: for individuals engaging in short term mission.
(vii) Other Mission Support Fund: for other mission organisations/initiatives seeking assistance.


Partnerships are more than financial

We recognise that true partnership is more than a financial transaction. Our partnerships are selected partly on the potential for these relationships to develop. We want to know how our partners are getting on and what they are doing; we want to pray for them; to learn about mission from them; to know about opportunities to serve with them on the front line and to find other ways to support them. 

Engaging and Encouraging the Cornerstone Community
The main way in which we would look to engage our community would be through short presentations during the Sunday gathering. These have the following aims:

1. To emphasise something of the true nature of biblical mission.
2. To inform about an individual partnership.
3. To provide an update about the partners work and needs.
4. To invite individuals to further participation including prayer, practical action, further giving etc. 
5. To encourage our community through highlighting the fact that when individuals make a financial offering they are partnering with the Global body of Christ, partnering in the Gospel, and partnering in Gods mission to the world. ​

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Financial Partnerships Team 
Becky Stojanovic, Graham McLean, Sylvia Roberts

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