Cornerstone Baptist Church

Cornerstone Church is a conservative, Southern Baptist congregation that is committed to teaching the world about Jesus.  To accomplish this, Cornerstone has adopted an “On Mission” focus that revolves around three foundational principles:

• Cornerstone Church will be a place of worship for people of all ethnic and
  socio-economic groups, united in purpose around the person and work of  Jesus Christ and the teachings of God’s inerrant Word.
• Cornerstone Church will be actively involved in local, national, and global missions with a primary emphasis on church planting.
• Cornerstone Church will be a Bible-teaching center for the Florence region.  This teaching ministry will be in evidence in the ministries of Cornerstone Church and will extend to the Pee Dee region through a variety of community teaching strategies.

Lead pastor Bill Curtis cofounded The Pillar Network for Church Planting in 2009; the network now has more than 100 partner and planting churches. Cornerstone partnered with its first church plant during year one of its existence and will partner with its 10th plant in 2019. Currently, Cornerstone sponsors three church plants annually (these are 5-year partnerships that provide $25,000 per year, per plant. Cornerstone enters into five-year partnerships with church plants because it takes longer to plant self-sustaining churches in urban, under-churched areas).