Roku / faith_based / CORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP - NC
REVIEW
Cornerstone Fellowship's Roku channel is a small church doing the simple thing well.
A free Subsplash-built channel from a North Carolina congregation. It exists so members and shut-ins can put Sunday on the living-room TV without juggling a phone or a browser tab. That is the whole job.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Cornerstone Fellowship - NC
SUBSPLASH, INC.
OUR SCORE
7.0
ROKU
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Every week, a handful of new church channels show up in Roku’s faith_based category. Almost none of them are built by the church. They’re built by Subsplash, or by Tithely, or by one of three or four other white-label platforms that handle the Roku certification, the video hosting, and the player so a congregation of two hundred doesn’t have to hire a developer. Cornerstone Fellowship — a church in North Carolina — chose Subsplash, and the result is a free, two-screen channel that exists for exactly one reason: a member who can’t make it to Sunday service can still put the sermon on the living-room TV.
That’s a narrow brief, and the channel meets it. It isn’t trying to be a streaming destination, it isn’t competing with anything, and reviewing it the way we’d review a major app would miss the point. The honest measure of a small-church Roku channel is whether grandma can find Sunday morning on the TV. This one passes.
The room to do better is mostly cosmetic and mostly free. A custom banner, a one-paragraph store description, and a service-time blurb would make the difference between a tile someone bookmarks and a tile someone reinstalls every Sunday because they couldn’t remember which “Cornerstone” was theirs.
The honest measure of a small-church Roku channel is whether grandma can find Sunday morning on the TV. This one passes.
FEATURES
The channel is built on Subsplash, the white-label church-media platform that powers a large share of the small-church apps on Roku. That means the basics are handled for the congregation without anyone having to write Roku code: a tile on the home screen, a directory of video content, and a player that streams from Subsplash's hosting.
There is no live-TV tuner, no donation flow on screen, no account login required to watch. Install, open, browse the available videos, press play. The two store screenshots show a vertical content list and a single video detail view — that is the surface area.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
For a congregation of this size, the right move is exactly this: don't try to build a custom channel, ride the platform that already solved the streaming and the Roku certification, and put the energy back into the actual ministry. Cornerstone Fellowship did that. The channel is free, it isn't ad-supported, and it doesn't ask for an account before it plays a video.
Subsplash's player is a known quantity on Roku — it works on current sticks and on older boxes, and the church doesn't have to maintain anything beyond uploading the videos.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Because this is a templated channel, it looks like every other Subsplash congregation on Roku. The home tile, the list view, the player chrome — there's nothing visually that says Cornerstone. A custom banner image or a branded splash would cost the church almost nothing and would help members find the right channel when their Roku search returns five "Cornerstone" results.
The store listing itself is also thin. No long description, no service-time blurb, no link out to the church's website. A visitor browsing the Roku faith_based category has no way to tell from the store page who this congregation is or what tradition it belongs to. That's a fixable five-minute job in the Subsplash dashboard.
CONCLUSION
Install it if you attend Cornerstone Fellowship in North Carolina, or if a family member does and you want their Sunday on the TV. There is no reason to install it otherwise — it isn't a discovery channel and it doesn't claim to be. What it does, it does honestly.