COURAGE...COURAGE...COURAGE.....I SEE IT AT LOMA DE LUZ!

Joshua 1:9 - Have I not commanded you, Be strong and Courageous.  Do Not Be Afraid!  For the Lord your God is with you where ever you go!

The Cornerstone Foundation was begun in 1992 by Jefferson C. McKenney, M.D., and Rosanne Lillard McKenney, R.N.  It was formed to serve the immediate need as the organizational framework to coordinate, administrate, and send out support to a planned mission hospital, Hospital Loma de Luz and to serve similar needs in the future. The vision for Hospital Loma de Luz  was to provide modern medical care in an area where there was none, and in the process to give an ongoing present witness to the truth of the gospel of Christ to a people and a region which had neither medical care nor ongoing Christian witness.  Through years of faith, hard work, and the generosity of many, and particularly through the evident grace of God, both the organization and the mission hospital have come to be a reality.  Loma de Luz, with its bilingual school, Children’s Center, Sanctuary Housing, Agricultural Ministry, Church Planting, and Community Development, has come to be much more than just an excellent mission hospital. Though the Cornerstone Foundation and Loma de Luz are distinct entities, their history, operation, and personnel are inextricably intertwined.

The vision of Loma de Luz is one of a diverse community of Christian believers cooperating to provide medical care and a constant, present, on-going hearing of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of the north coast of Honduras, and ultimately the inland, the Mosquita, and to national and international sailors in that part of the Caribbean.

In order to accomplish this task, a tertiary care referral hospital is the structural hub of various services and outreaches that include education, foster children’s care, agricultural projects, public health, chaplaincy,community development, home health nursing, and pastoral and Christian leadership training. We work daily for it to be an outreach that not only meets physical needs, but also the needs of the spirit and the soul.  We pray for the hospital and community surrounding it to be a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden. It is our goal that the people who would come to the hospital for medical care, the people who would find employment related to the hospital, and the people who would benefit from other connected services would not only hear the gospel preached, but also see it lived out in the lives of the missionaries and Christian workers.- all information taken from Cornerstone Foundation website (www.crstone.org)