The concept of The Cornerstone Inn is the design from a Divine Inspiration to recreate the tradition
of The Table… Where you will be Welcomed with a Smile, Served with Joy, and Fed with Blessed Food…
all with Love from A Mother’s Heart.
Hospitality
Upon your arrival, you will be greeted with a smile and honored as our special guest!
Joy
In our Kitchen---most of our cooks are mothers themselves, who love and believe in the kitchen as an
important household room – where joy in work abides.
Love
From a mother’s heart is a real ingredient in our recipes!
Food from Scratch
Our dishes are prepared and mixed with loving hands.
NO TIPPING at Mother’s table, but contributions are thankfully accepted to help fulfill the basic needs for our world’s poorest of the poor, as well as national disaster funds. The contributions have gone to World Vision, Cross International, Mary’s Meals, and Samaritan’s Purse…these missions have websites if you’d like to check out where we have chosen to send your contributions. The Cornerstone Inn has also adopted children with these funds, through World Vision’s childcare ministries.
“Mother” cares for the local needs too – those in need may receive free food, quietly, without questions, by approaching the kitchen door at the rear of the building.
 | We do daily laundry at The Cornerstone. Our bathrooms are equipped, just like home, with individual towels versus wasteful paper. Soooooo, “Mother” has daily laundry! |
Used dishes and serving pieces were and still are donated by customers. | |
 | Our tables are solid wood and locally made, purchased by local residents, and then donated to The Cornerstone Inn. Take a look at the tables. They have a small brass, engraved plate, with a dedication to the appointed loved one or family, which the donor wished to memorialize. |
 | Music is always playing at The Cornerstone Inn – whether nice background music that doesn’t interrupt your important conversation, or live music on a Saturday night, or impromptu music – when someone feels like playing the piano. Thursday night is Mother’s designated Talent Night, where the floor is open for anyone to share their talent. There are speakers, microphones, and small soundboard for you to come and simply “plug in”. |
Choose to order your meal served family-style in bowls and platters to be passed around the table – for gatherings of four or more. Our homey and loving environment will help you teach your children and grandchildren to eat as a family what is served on the table. We suggest a child at your table be asked to serve – to come to our kitchen counter, help lay the table, serve drinks, to clear away plates. Many children today are not taught the role of humility to serve others cheerfully and willingly. You may be surprised how children love the opportunity to play a special role in this diminishing tradition. We believe in grace before meals: “the family that prays together stays together.” Don’t be embarrassed to pray before your meal here! | |
 | The Root Cellar Descend our staircase into the Root Cellar – a quiet prayer room with walls of stacked stone. You will find a wooden petition box containing a drawer with paper and pen. Write your confidential prayer requests and place them in the slot on the top of the box. Every day for one hour, one member of our local community spends time in prayer for all the petitions in the box. We believe in prayer. We believe that God listens to and answers our pleas, heals our wounds, sees our heartache, and shares our suffering. He hurts with us – our brokenness, afflictions, addictions and most difficult cases. |
 We are all God’s children, and He forgives us and yearns for us to return to Him with all our heart! He deserves also our thanksgiving and praise, for as one of us suffers, another of us rejoices…seasons turn and change, but God does not. He is faithful, firm, and steadfast and a Rock to which we can cling. So go to your roots and approach your Maker at our humble box of prayers, united with your community of friends, family, and travelers along the way. In one great big voice, God will hear us, turn toward our little community and grant much blessing! God IS the root and foundation of The Cornerstone Inn! | |
