About Us
Our Story
“Jesus Christ is the center of the life of this church, inviting all people into a loving relationship with God and authentic friendship with one another.”
In February of 2018, the Alliance churches in Peckville and Clarks Summit were presented with a unique opportunity. The Peckville church’s senior congregants were struggling to attend services in an aged and inaccessible building, and the Clarks Summit church had been without a pastor for several years and was in decline. Our district leaders proposed that the two churches pool their resources by merging the congregations and purchasing a new, accessible building somewhere between the two locations. After coming together for several months, both congregations agreed to form the new church, in a new building in a new community. God was indeed “doing a new thing!” (Isa. 43:19)
In the spring of 2019, we purchased our new church home on Main Street in Dickson City, PA, at the site of the former Gibbons-Ford dealership showroom, and began renovations. While this process was delayed during the COVID pandemic, we continued to meet online weekly, and on December 24, 2020 we received our certificate of occupancy, and that evening we gathered at our new location for our first service, a Christmas Eve candlelight service. Since then, we have been reaching out to our new neighbors with the truth, love, and power of Jesus. Many have passed through our doors to visit, and many who have visited have remained. To God be the glory!
In his letter to the Ephesian, the apostle Paul recounts how the Lord had brought two distinct people groups together to form a new faith community which then made up the Church in Ephesus. With this in mind, we decided upon the name “Cornerstone Alliance Church,” and have adopted Ephesians 2:19-20 as our life verse:
"Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of His household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the Chief Cornerstone.”
About the Pastor
Rev. Nestor Soto began to follow Christ on at the age of 20, and at 26, he began to sense the call into ministry. After completing the missions program at RHEMA Bible Training College in Tulsa, OK, Nestor spent the next few years in short-term missions overseas, and teaching stateside. Nestor joined the staff of Christ Alive Christian Center in the Bronx, NY as its Evangelism and Discipleship Director in 1997, and in 2001, he moved to Milford, PA to plant Followers Christian Fellowship, an independent non-denominational church. During his five years as its pastor, Nestor also began to serve as director of pastoral services of the Andover Subacute and Rehab Center, a 702-bed skilled nursing facility in northern NJ, where he remained until 2009. In 2009, Nestor began post-graduate work at the Alliance Theological Seminary (now Alliance University), earning his master’s degree in Biblical Literature in 2011. Since graduation, Nestor has served as an adjunct professor at the college, and as a teaching assistant and mentor in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care classes at the seminary. In June of 2013, Nestor was installed as lead pastor of the Peckville Alliance Church, and subsequently became the lead pastor of the Cornerstone Alliance Church after its merge in 2018. Nestor is single, and lives in Mayfield, PA, where he enjoys running, rock climbing, hiking, nature photography, journaling, and pretty much anything else that get him outdoors.