page_title: Cornerstone Community
section_title: Businesses
hierarchical_section_title: Cornerstone Community / Businesses
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture of the sign out the front of our Swan Hill Campus
context_page_description: Cornerstone Community is an Australian non-denominational evangelical Christian training and mission movement.
  Founded in 1978, Cornerstone used to operate from several training campuses in regional Australia and attempted to support a network of what it described as ‘mission teams’, mainly in Victoria and NSW.
  Cornerstone includes a broad cross section of individuals from all walks of life and works alongside churches, schools, Universities and Christian ministries both within Australia and internationally.
  Students spend the first year of the two-year course engaged in a program of study, work, community living and mission within one of the remaining Cornerstone centers. The subsequent year is spent as part of a smaller self-supporting mission team within small Australian towns.
  Students work alongside churches within neighborhoods, schools, universities, youth groups and sporting clubs to serve the community and build bridges with those not connected with the traditional church.
  Cornerstone is a non-profit organisation, and used to operate several businesses to finance its training centers and mission teams.
context_section_description: Cornerstone once operated a variety of commercial enterprises. Rather than pay tuition fees students worked in Cornerstone owned businesses. 
  Cornerstone Community has at times drawn fire from competitors who claim that they have an unfair advantage in that they do not need to pay wages or Company Tax on their business activities. 
  This issue gained particular prominence in 2002 when one of Cornerstone’s businesses, “Turf the Lot”, became involved in the so-called “turf wars” in Canberra. This drew the attention of the Australian Taxation Office who examined Cornerstone’s business affairs.
caption: Cornerstone Swan Hill Sign
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