Cornerstone Chinese Church is a family-oriented church with over 115 years of history in the Chicagoland area. Formerly known as Chinese Bible Church of Oak Park, we moved our ministry to Villa Park, Illinois in September 2019. Over the years, our church has grown into a multi-cultural community that welcomes all.
Our Mission
Our mission is to reach people for Christ and build people in Christ for the glory of God. We connect people with Christ through prayer, fellowship, study, worship, and spread the gospel to the ends of the earth.
Foster a Christian community that provides a loving church family experience in an environment that nurtures its members.
Keep all of our teaching and practice faithful to the Gospel and submitted to the authority of God's Word.
Celebrate God by providing a quality worship service and using worship styles and forms that will best relate to our congregation.
Seek to be intentional in the way God uses us, along with His Word and Spirit, to transform unbelievers into people whose great delight in life is to know and trust in Him.
Seek to grow the church quantitatively through evangelism and helping people find a spiritual home.
Provide strong pastoral and lay leadership, equip the congregation, utilize lay member's skills, passions, and spiritual gifts in all aspects of the church.
We Believe:
(1) The Scriptures both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of mankind, and the Divine and final authority for all Christian faith and life.
(2) In one God, Creator and sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
(3) That Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died on the cross a substitutional death for our sins according to the Scriptures. Further, He rose bodily from the dead, ascended in to Heaven, where at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He is now our High Priest and Advocate.
(4) That the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, and that during this age to convict mankind, to regenerate the believing sinner, and to indwell, guide, instruct, and empower the believer for godly living and service.
(5) That for His glory and purposes God created all mankind in His image and God ordained marriage between one man and one woman. But all mankind fell into sin and is therefore lost, and only through regeneration by the Holy Spirit can salvation and spiritual life be obtained.
(6) That the shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only ground for justification and salvation for all who believe, and only those who receive Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit, and thus, become children of God.
(7) That water baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church during the present age. However, they are not to be regarded as a means of salvation.
(8) That the Universal Church is composed of all persons who through their faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the body of Christ of which He is the head.
(9) That the local church is the visible representation of the Universal Church and therefore, is part of the Universal Church.
(10) In the personal and imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ and that this "blessed Hope" has a vital bearing on the personal life and service of the believer.
(11) That Satan, the prince of the power of the air, is the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, and the enemy of God.
(12) In the bodily resurrection of the dead, the believer will have everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord, and the unbeliever will receive judgment and everlasting conscious punishment.
Senior Pastor, Cantonese Congregation
Pastor Yoman Man has served at Cornerstone since 2004. During the 1990s, Pastor Man was the General Secretary of the Evangelical Free Church of Hong Kong in which he oversaw ministries of church-planting, Christian education, social service, publication, ministerial development, and denomination affairs. Pastor Man has a passion for overseas missions by serving in organizations working in South Africa, Brazil, Macau, and Taiwan. Pastor Man received a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Bachelor of Theology from Evangel Theological College.
Senior Associate Pastor, English Congregation
Pastor Raj Christodoss has served at Cornerstone since 2003. Previously, Pastor Raj ministered in a Fairlawn Community Church of New Jersey from 1997-2002. He has also served as a Youth and Young Adult Minister. Pastor Raj received a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Business from Trinity College.
Associate Pastor, Mandarin Congregation
Pastor Brian Yang has served at Cornerstone since 2019. Serving since 2003, he has ministered at two churches in Guangzhou and a campus ministry in Nanjing. Pastor Yang received his Bachelor of Economics degree from Sun Yat-Sen University. He also graduated from the Pastors College of the Sovereign Grace Churches and received the Master’s Degree of Divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Pastor Yang regards preaching the Word of God as his first priority in pastoral ministry. And he believes in the centeredness of the Gospel of the grace of God and the necessity of filled with the Holy Spirit in ordinary Christian life.
We strive for God’s Great Commission of sharing the gospel to the ends of the earth. Throughout our church’s history, we have supported missionaries and organizations around the world in both prayer and financial support.
We encourage and prepare our congregations in evangelism and outreach to our surrounding communities and overseas. We partner with churches through the Chicagoland area in training and evangelism.
