June 20, 2012

Policies and Procedures

for Short-Term Missionaries CornerStone International approves short-term missionaries for up to two years (8/12/11). In some cases, this time limit is extended. Short-term missionaries are NOT going with a team for a week or two, but gathering experience on the mission field or testing a call to long-term missions. Shortterm missionaries must be in agreement with the CornerStone Statement of Faith, nondenominational position and these Policies and Procedures.

Responsibilities
As a CornerStone Short-term missionary, you are subject to many of the same responsibilities and policies as long-term missionaries. For example, your ongoing responsibility is to evangelize while loving and serving Jesus Christ. In consultation with CornerStones President, you must develop a basic strategy for your ministry and communicate with us regularly.

Communications
You may send a regular prayer letter or newsletter but this is not required. Please submit all communication related to your ministry as a short-term missionary to the CornerStone office before distributing, ie. fundraising letters, newsletters or updates, emails, websites, blogs, etc. We want to stay current and pray for you, help you with editing and with information about CornerStone policies and mission. CI is responsible for all materials distributed and therefore maintains all editorial rights and privileges. Please include the CI logo on all communication. We will mail your newsletters, if you like, and will supply paper and envelopes, but the postage and printing will be charged to your account. Please put your mailing list in an Excel file and submit to the office before your first letter or communication is distributed. Your mailing list will be added to our database and CI Board members will receive your newsletters. As a service to you, your supporters may receive CIs newsletter.

Funding
As a CornerStone missionary, you are required to raise the funds for your mission through CornerStone. All funds that you receive, as a result of your mission, must be sent to CornerStone. Please ask those who support you to make their checks out to CornerStone International and to write your project name on the memo line of their check. Your supporters may also donate from our website through Paypal or set up an automatic draft donation with CornerStone. All donors will receive a tax-deductible receipt for each donation. If a check for your support is written to you, endorse the back and write payable to CornerStone under your signature. Send the check to CornerStone office and we will send the donor a receipt. According to IRS regulations governing charitable organizations, all contributions become the property of CornerStone International. When a donor receives a tax-deductible receipt from

CornerStone, the ownership of funds transfers from the donor to CornerStone, not to you or your mission. Historically, CornerStone applies all money received, less a 10% administrative fee, to your CornerStone project fund as requested by the donor. CornerStone maintains administrative control over contributed funds since it must give account to the IRS for the use of those funds. After you have completed your assignment and all bills and final settlements have been made, remaining funds will revert to the Guardian Fund. (3/19/12) Cash gifts, up to $250, may be given directly to you, the missionary, but no tax-deductible receipt will be issued by CornerStone. Such cash gifts will be receipted only if forwarded to the CornerStone office for deposit into your account. You must supply the donors name and address. All gifts above $250 must be sent to CornerStone. Per IRS regulations, non-cash items (such as books, computers, supplies, etc.) donated to a missionary become the property of CornerStone if a receipt for the item(s) is requested and given. At the end of your service, you may buy back the item(s) from CornerStone at fair market value. If a donated (non-cash) item is given as a gift to you and a receipt is NOT requested and issued, the item is yours.

Administrative Fee
A monthly administrative fee of 10% is charged to all missionary funds.

Employment Status & Payroll

Short-term missionaries are employees of CornerStone International. As a short-term missionary, you will receive a salary from your CornerStone funds. Taxes will be withheld. The income that you receive from CornerStone is reported to the IRS, and a W-2 form will be issued for you at the end of the year. If you plan to stay only a month or two on your mission, you will usually take enough support to the field with you in a lump sum, or CornerStone may deposit it into your stateside bank account to be accessed by an ATM card while you are on the field. For longer stays, CornerStone will deposit a monthly paycheck into your stateside personal checking account. If your CornerStone fund balance is sufficient, you will receive your budgeted monthly amount. Otherwise, you will receive only what your fund contains, minus the administrative fee and expenses you have incurred. Your first paycheck will be for the month in which you depart for the field. You are required to have a financial liaison in the States who has access to your stateside account. Their name should be listed on the signature card for your account at the bank. This is required in case you have an emergency or have difficulty accessing your personal checking account. You must provide the name, address and phone number of your financial liaison to the CornerStone office prior to your departure (PIN form).

Health Insurance
Short-term missionaries are required to carry health insurance. CI office may obtain insurance for you and pay the insurance company directly from your support funds at your request. Other expenses such as immunizations or medical expenses, not covered by this insurance can be paid or reimbursed as you request and as approved by the President. All medical expenses are reimbursable. The office must receive receipts for these expenses before such payments will be reimbursed. 2

Expense Report Reimbursement

As a short-term missionary, you are eligible to be reimbursed for many types of ministry and travel-related expenses. Personal expenses should be covered by your salary. To receive payment of reimbursable expenses along with your salary in a given month, CornerStone must receive a completed Expense Report Form with attached receipts by the 25th of that month to be included with the current months paycheck deposit. The Expense Report Forms must include: Name and date The amount of each expense (in US dollars) in the proper column All columns totaled in US dollars The actual receipts attached (or scanned copies attached to an email)

Departure
The President may approve you for departure when 100% of funding for all start-up costs has been raised 50% of your terms budget is accrued

Conflict Resolution and Confidentiality

CI is committed to resolving, in a biblical manner, all disputes that may arise in connection to its ministry and honoring confidentiality as outlined in the CornerStone Long-term Policies and Procedures Manual (following). (Excerpt from Long-term Missionary Policies and Procedures Manual, p. 11) CONFLICT RESOLUTION CI is committed to resolving in a biblical manner all disputes that may arise in connection to its ministry. This commitment is based on God's command that Christians should strive earnestly to live at peace with one another (see Matt. 5:9; John 17:20-23; Rom. 12:18; and Eph. 4:1-3) and that when disputes arise, Christians should resolve them according to the principles set forth in Holy Scripture (see Prov. 19:11; Matt. 5:23-25; 18:15-20; 1 Cor. 6:1-8; Gal. 6:1). We believe that these commands and principles are obligatory on all Christians and absolutely essential for the well-being and work of the church. Therefore, any and all disputes arising in connection with the ministry of CI shall, inasmuch as it is within the control or influence of CI, be resolved according to biblical principles, as provided in this manual. When any person, associated with CI, whether employee, staff, missionary or family, director or otherwise voluntarily associated with CI, has a conflict with, or is concerned about the behavior of another person also associated with CI, he shall attempt to resolve the matter as follows. (1) The offended or concerned person shall prayerfully examine himself and take responsibility for his contribution to a problem (Matt. 7:3-5), and he/she shall prayerfully seek to discern whether the offense is so serious that it cannot be overlooked (Prov. 19:11; see also Prov. 12:16; 15:18; 17:14; 20:3; Eph. 4:2; Col. 3:13; 1 Pet. 4:8). (2) If the offense is too serious to overlook, the offended or concerned person shall go, repeatedly if necessary, and talk to the offender in an effort to resolve the matter personally and privately, having first confessed his/her own wrongdoing (Matt. 18:15). (3) If the offender will not listen and if the problem is too serious to overlook, 1) the director of CI must be apprised of the situation and 2) the offended or concerned person shall return with one or two

other people who will attempt to help the parties resolve their differences (Matt. 18:16). These other people may be associated with CI, other respected Christians in the community, or trained mediators or arbitrators (conciliators) from a Christian conciliation ministry. At the request of either party to the dispute, the leadership of CI shall make every effort to assist the parties in resolving their differences and being reconciled. Employment disputes shall be resolved according to procedures set forth in the most current version of this Policy Manual. If a dispute arises between or among persons associated with CI or with CI, itself, that cannot be resolved through the internal procedures described above, it shall be resolved as follows: The dispute shall be submitted to mediation and, if necessary, legally binding arbitration in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Institute for Christian Conciliation, (which rules are available for review at the office and at the Peacemaker Ministries web site at www.HisPeace.org) and judgment upon an arbitration award may be entered in any court otherwise having jurisdiction. A. This section covers CI, as a corporate entity and its agents, including its Directors, officers, staff, missionaries and family, and volunteers with regard to any actions they may take in their official capacities B. This section covers any and all disputes or claims arising from or related to CI policies, practices, counseling, discipline, decisions, terminations, actions, or failures to act, including claims based on civil statutes, common law or for personal injury. C. By associating with CI, all associated persons agree that these methods shall provide the sole remedy for any dispute arising against CI and its agents, and they waive their right to file any legal action against CI in a civil court or agency, except to enforce an arbitration decision. D. If a dispute or claim involves an alleged injury or damage to which CIs insurance applies, and if CI's insurer refuses to submit to mediation or arbitration as described in this section, either CI or the person alleging the injury or damage may declare that this section is no longer binding with regard to that part of the dispute or claim to which CIs insurance applies. CONFIDENTIALITY The Bible teaches that Christians should carefully guard any personal and private information that others reveal to them. Protecting confidences is a sign of Christian love and respect (see Matt. 7:12). It also discourages harmful gossip (Prov. 16:28; 26:20), invites confession (see Prov. 11:13; 28:13; James 5:16), and encourages people to seek needed counseling (see Prov. 20:19; Rom. 15:14). Since these goals are essential to the ministry of the gospel and the work of CI, all persons associated with CI are expected to refrain from gossip and to respect the confidences of others. In particular, leadership of CI shall carefully protect all information that they receive through counseling, subject to the following guidelines. Although confidentiality is to be respected as much as possible, there are times when it is appropriate to reveal certain information to others. In particular, when the leadership of CI believe it is biblically necessary, they may disclose confidential information to appropriate people in the following circumstances: A. When leadership of CI is uncertain of how to counsel a person associated with the ministry about a particular problem and needs to seek advice from other leaders or that persons pastors or elders. (see Prov. 11:14; 13:10; 15:22; 19:20; 20:18; Matt. 18:15-17); 4

B. When the person who disclosed the information or any other person is in imminent danger of serious harm unless others intervene (see Prov. 24:11-12); C. When a person refuses to repent of sin and it becomes necessary to institute disciplinary or termination proceedings (see Matt. 18:15-20) or seek the assistance of individuals or agencies outside this church (see, e.g., Rom. 13:1-5); or D. When required by law to report suspected child abuse. Scripture commands that confidential information is to be shared with others only when a problem cannot be resolved through the efforts of a small group of concerned believers (Matt. 18:15-17). Therefore, except as provided hereinabove, leadership may not disclose confidential information to anyone outside the ministry without the approval of the Board of Trustees or the consent of the person who originally disclosed the information. The Board of Trustees may approve such disclosure only when it finds that all internal efforts to resolve a problem have been exhausted (see, e.g., 1 Cor. 6:1-8) and the problem cannot be satisfactorily resolved without the assistance of individuals or agencies outside (see, e.g., Rom. 13:1-5). This limitation shall apply to but is not limited to the giving of testimony in a court of law and the reporting of abuse. The leadership of CI may, but need not, provide counselees with written notice of these confidentiality provisions, but these provisions shall be in effect regardless of whether such notice is given.

The CornerStone International, Inc. PO Box 192 Wilmore, Kentucky 40390 859-858-4578

STATEMENT OF AGREEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE

I,____________________________________, have received and read the Short-term Policies and Procedures manual and the Long-term Manual sections referenced within. I agree with its intent and purpose and willingly accept the terms and conditions as written. As a CI missionary, I will uphold the integrity of the organization in all aspects of my personal life and ministry.

___________________________________________________ Signature of Missionary/Date

___________________________________________________ Signature of CI Staff/Date