Throughout the 1990s Cornerstone Christian Centre in south London grew rapidly as a church and resource centre. It had supporting partnerships with many churches, ministries and interchurch projects across the UK and overseas, as well as a Bible school, ministers’ fellowship, well-publicised teaching conferences and a television department. 

A planned change of leadership in 2007 saw these aspects of its work brought into a new charity, freeing Cornerstone to function more effectively as a local church. The partnership between the church and the charity remained strong for many years. Charis Communications is that charity.

In taking on these responsibilities, our objectives from the outset have been to: 

• increase biblical literacy, 
• developing effective leadership and 
• enhance kingdom (i.e. church-growth) initiatives 

and to do this in person, in print, on air, and online.

An early priority was to create a separate charity for Churches in Communities International, the mutual accountability network for churches and ministries that for ten years had been emerging from the Ministers’ Fellowship. We have retained a close relationship with this charity too.

• maintaining an itinerant preaching programme, 

• holding teaching conferences, 

• producing television programming and radio contributions

• offering recorded teaching series for free through our hughosgood.com website

• releasing teaching content through YouTube, Spotify, Facebook and instagram

• running Bible Academy as an online 12 module study course with an additional online interactive option 

• producing video Bible studies with accessible notes, including an ongoing book-by-book, chapter-by-chapter series 

• Maintaining   Charis House to publish books for students and art books for reflection

• providing personal mentoring in the context of enhancing kingdom initiatives

• releasing Mentoring Mondays on various social media outlets

• maintaining the Youth Vids website commending and collating Christian videos

• providing consultancy advice for a wide range of city-wide and nation-wide initiatives

• supporting initiatives in northern and southern Nigeria to increase church cohesion

• providing theological advice for a Christian film company

• maintaining close relationships with the EA through its Council (since 2022), [but previously as London coordinator (1997-99) and ACEA board member (1997-2003)] 

• undertaking the Co-convenor’s role for the UK Charismatic and Pentecostal Leaders’ Gathering (since 2007)