Preparing Our Students For Mission
Here at the Summit, we’ve set the audacious goal of planting 1,000 churches in our generation. If we’re going to be successful in this, the next wave of church planters is most likely sitting in our...
View ArticleFinishing Strong: All-In for Missions
Summit, I’m consistently blown away with how generous you have proven to be over the past two years. When we began our “All-In” initiative in 2012, we pledged together to give over $30 million toward...
View ArticleNot IF You Are Called, Only Where and How
Last year, by God’s grace, nearly 500 Summit members went on a short-term trip, and more than 200 of our current members live on one of our overseas church planting projects. We want to invite you to...
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How in the World Can We Pray for Our World?
This guest post is by Curtis Alan. Curt is the Missions Pastor here at the Summit. “God bless the missionaries…” Does this summarize your prayers for the mission of God? Do you struggle to find the...
View ArticleGod Gave You the Holy Spirit … For a Reason
This post coincides with a book I’m releasing in August, called Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send. Gaining by Losing is all about how to empower your church or Christian...
View ArticleWe Are Always Free to Follow Christ
Years ago, while living in an overwhelmingly Muslim country, I (Chris) was privileged to hear a talk from Nik Ripken about the persecuted church throughout the world. That talk was both challenging and...
View ArticleWe’re All Called. The Only Questions Are ‘Where’&‘How?’
Life is short, and you only get one shot to leverage your life for the mission of God. So what if–before you launched into your career–you saw first-hand what God is doing in the most strategic places...
View ArticlePlanting 1,000 Churches by 2050: 25 Domestic Plants & Counting!
Much of the vision here coincides with a book I am releasing in August called Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send, in which I talk about how to engineer your church around...
View ArticleThe Church Isn’t a Cruise Ship; It’s an Aircraft Carrier
The following is an excerpt from Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send. The book comes out July 28, but if you order it before then, you’ll get a free eBook (Sending Capacity,...
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Planting 1,000 Churches by 2050: 92 International Plants & Counting!
About a decade ago, God gave The Summit Church the audacious vision of planting 1,000 churches by the year 2050. At the time, we had two missionary families in the field. So we weren’t exactly...
View ArticleIn Light of Global Terrorism, Isn’t Missions Too Risky?
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris have caused a lot of public debate—surrounding issues of immigration (broadly), refugees (specifically), public safety, the nature of Islam, the role of...
View ArticleWho Is Climbing The Mountains of Lostness?
For those of you here at the Summit, this weekend I asked an important question: who among us is climbing the mountains of poverty, homelessness, and lostness to tell the good news? As the writer of...
View ArticleThe Mission Is Waiting, and Christ Is Worth It
There is a myth among Christians today when it comes to the idea of calling. Many of us are sitting around waiting for some “second call” before we really start to leverage our lives for the mission of...
View ArticleThe Cost Will Be Great; The Reward Will Be Greater
I came across this Matt Papa song (again) recently. Incredibly powerful reminder of the importance and urgency of missions. “The mission is clear. The call is ‘go.’ The cost will be great. The reward...
View ArticleRefugees in Our Midst: A Gospel Opportunity
Summit family, I’ve got an exciting update to share with you. If you remember, during our Christmas services at DPAC we collected a special offering for one of our partner organizations. We chose to...
View ArticleGod Still Does More than We Can Ask or Imagine
A little under a decade ago, God gave The Summit Church a vision of planting 1,000 churches by the year 2050. When we first verbalized that number, a lot of people thought it was a crazy idea, far too...
View Article“The Spirit of Christ Wants the World for Christ”
We were so encouraged and challenged a few weeks ago when David Platt, president of the IMB, came to The Summit Church. It is impossible to be around David and not catch his (or, rather, the Holy...
View ArticleThe Bittersweet Joy of Sending Out Our Best
This weekend we had the bittersweet joy of commissioning another 75 Summit members, who are planting another four domestic church plants—in Los Angeles, Orlando, Brooklyn, and Winston-Salem. In the...
View ArticleSponsor a Child through Compassion Today!
Summit, this past weekend was a huge one in the life of our church—and, because of your faithfulness, it’s going to be a huge one for years to come in the lives of hundreds of kids around the world....
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