We are blessed to have a wonderful and active congregation. We all have gifts from God. Serving in the church truly allows one to demonstrate the blessing our Lord has given each and every one of us.
Cornerstone UMC welcomed Rev. Lee as our senior pastor on July 4, 2021.
Rev. Gil Lee has served in many different ways throughout his ministry. He served as a missionary in Singapore from 2000-2005. He was Education Pastor at the Korean Methodist Church of Love in Severn, MD from 2005-2007. Next he was Chaplain & Missiology Professor at Mokwon University, Dae-Jeon, South Korea from 2010 to 2012. Rev. Lee was then Senior Pastor at Singapore Glory Korean Church, Singapore 2012-2018. His last charge was as Pastor to Contoocook and Hillside United Methodist Churches in Contoocook, NH 2018. Rev. Lee’s wife Hannah, just finished her first year of Master of Divinity at Boston University in May 2021. She is preparing to serve the United Methodist Church as an elder after graduation. His daughter Grace is a sophomore at Wheaton College, Wheaton, ILL. His son Daniel is a junior at Scarborough High School. Rev. Lee , Hannah and Daniel are living in West Scarborough in the parsonage of the West Scarborough UMC.
Rev. Lee is serving three churches in the Living Water Circuit which includes us at Cornerstone UMC, Rainbow UMC in Portland and the West Scarborough UMC.
We are excited to welcome Rev. Lee to Cornerstone UMC and in Pastor Lee’s words, “I am glad and excited to work with all of you.’
Team is one of the wonderful words to describe the Cornerstone community. Teamwork and team unity is how we work, worship, explore what is most meaningful, and meet the needs of the world. It’s the Cornerstone action teams that help define one’s particular place and find meaning. Be it work, worship, one’s own quest for meaning, and/or in mission and ministry to others
Lead Pastor &
Christian Education
Associate Pastor
Digital Minister
Lay Leader
SPRC Chair
Church Council Chair
Worship Committee Chair
Trustees Committee Chair
Finance Committee Chair
Sunday School Director
Sexton
Preachers are not only “pastors” in the traditional sense at Living Waters Circuit Ministry. Every day people who have made a commitment to further their education through reading and meditating on the Word of God daily, writing a spiritual journal, and sharing the messages they receive from God are all “preachers”. They are people of many gifts that are learning to use them by taking courses through the UMC Lay Servant Ministry courses. Becoming Certified Lay Servants in the Many Waters District of the New England Annual Conference shows their willingness to serve the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in their local church and beyond. These Bible Readers, Spiritual Writers, Care Givers, and Spirit Deliverers are inspired to share the message of Jesus.
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
“Now God gives us many kinds of special abilities, but it is the same Holy Spirit who is the source of them all. There are different kinds of service to God, but it is the same Lord we are serving. There are many ways in which God works in our lives, but it is the same God who does the work in and through all of us who are his.”