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Summit Small Groups
Come worship, pray, and plan with Small Group leaders from every campus. Hear vision from the SG team and plan for success in your group.

Summit Kids
If you are interested in serving or presently serve in Summit Kids, please plan on attending Summit Kidstitute! Food will be served  at the beginning of each meeting. We will be going over curriculum, policies and procedures, ministry opportunities, and some exciting changes for the new school year.

Summit Students
In depth training for all current and potential leaders on all things Student Ministry here at the Summit.

Starting Point
Training opportunity for those interested in getting involved with Starting Point at any of our campuses.

First Impression
Basic track: those who have never served, or are interested in serving, or have never been to training.
Advanced track: training for all current First Impression  volunteers. Newbies are welcome to stay!

Summit Worship
A cookout and worship ministry introduction for singers and instrumentalists. There will be food and fellowship, a chance to hear about our vision for worship ministry, and an opportunity to hear about how to get involved at any campus.

Marriage Prep Mentor Training
This training will equip Marriage Prep mentors to utilize relationship building, modeling, and topical discussions to play a key role in helping new couples build God-glorifying marriages.

Production Team
Come be a part of the team that makes it all happen in our worship services! Learn how to run cameras, lights, and computers at any of our campuses at this training.

Church Planting / Community Ministry
Interested in reaching and serving our community, our nation, and our world? Whether to downtown or across the world, we’re all sent. Find out how to get there.

SendRDU Forum
Is God calling you? What does a calling entail? How does someone know they are called to plant a church? The answers may surprise you.

Visit: www.SummitRDU.com for more information

Movie Night

IS YOUR BUDGET TIGHT?

DO YOU FIND YOURSELF SITTING AROUND ON FRIDAY NIGHTS BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY?

DO YOU WANT TO MEET SOME NEW PEOPLE?

ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT SOMEONE FINDING THE FOOD YOU ARE TRYING TO SNEAK INTO THE THEATRE?

JOIN US THIS FRIDAY FOR FREE HOTDOGS & FREE POPCORN DURING A FREE MOVIE!

(don’t forget to donate school supplies for Eno Valley Elementary)

Christmas in August

Mark your calenders for August 2nd. Cole Mill: we need your help!

Here is what pastor JD had to say in one of his most recent blogs…

On Sunday we asked our church to give, sacrificially, to the “Christmas in August” offering to the church planting work of the IMB. Each year, at the Summit we give $1000’s to International Church Planting through our Christmas Mission offering. These gifts join with gifts from churches all around the country to fund our missionaries through an organization called the International Mission Board. This year, due to the recession gifts fell short of the $170 million goal by about $30 million. The result is that some of our church planters will not be able to stay their second year, and some of those in the pipeline at our church are going to have to delay going.

So, what’s happening is across the nation we’re asking churches to do a “Christmas in August” offering… make up for the shortfall. The bottom line is that all of us have less now, so we are able to give less. That said, I do think that the global progress of the Gospel should be the LAST thing to suffer. I think we should consider making radical changes to our lifestyles before we see missionaries have to come home.

In case you need some more motivation… the below is a very stirring letter from one of our church planters, regarding some recent cutbacks at the International Mission Board due to the economic recession.

The 2008 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal was $170 million.  As you may already know, the total receipts fell approximately $29 million short of that goal… the single biggest drop from one year to the next in the history of the offering.  When just looking at those numbers it’s pretty overwhelming. However, it all comes into perspective when you realize that entire shortfall could be made up by each SB giving only about $2. That’s giving up one cup of coffee, one hamburger, one Route 44 from Sonic, one tots and cheese… for those of you that know what I’m talking about!  Our missionary-force is having to be reduced by almost 700 personnel.  That is a pretty sobering figure.  

Our denomination was born out of a passion for the nations to hear the Gospel. Sometimes it is a good thing to step back and remember where you came from.  We realize that these are difficult economic times for everyone, and we certainly want to show gratitude and appreciation of the funding we have received.  However, God has not called us (SB’s) out to wait on the sidelines until the economy recovers.   

During the company’s meetings last week, we were informed that one of the most disappointing things about this situation is not the amount of LMCO shortfall, but the fact that there has been little, if any, real outrage from SB’s that our ISC program has been suspended.  The ISC program is the program that allows married couples or singles who are outside of their 20′s to go overseas for 2 or 3 years.  

If the financial crunch had hit before the team I’m on left, we would have 1 career couple here, and the other 5 adults on the team, including me, would be gone.  When October of next year hits, we will all be gone, and chances are the one remaining career unit here will not be able to stay in our city.  Generally we try not to have anyone alone in a city, and I assume this would be the case with us.  Please pray for them in this time, and please do anything you can to help out during this hard time.

11,626 people groups worldwide

6,510 unreached 

3,431 unengaged unreached

2,650 with no known evangelical witness

345 unengaged unreached in CA

4 out of every 10,000 persons in CA is a follower of Christ

I know this is kind of sobering, but so was the email that said we were going to have to bring missionaries home early.  Thanks SO MUCH for your support, prayer and otherwise.

Summit, I really want us to do our part. I hope you’ll pray about giving, sacrificially, to this special offering on August 2. Make sure your mark your gift “missions.” You can also give online at www.summitrdu.com/give.

Other churches and pastors, would you consider leading your church to be a part of this as well?

Look what YOU did…

On wednesday me, Josh McDonald and Jason Gaston got out of the office and took a roadtrip to visit New Spring Church in Anderson, SC. On our way there we stopped by IKEA in Charlotte, NC to buy some furniture to complete the WOH teachers lounge project we began at Eno Valley Elementary.

Notice the decorating skills and color patterns selected by yours truly…amazing huh? We were able to stay under budget by getting 2 couches, 2 chairs, 4 end tables, 1 coffee table and a giant rug. Make sure you come visit Eno Valley Elementry and see the completed lounge the Summit Church worked so hard on during Week of Hope. Don’t forget we are going to help teachers move back into their classrooms on August 17 and we will be serving them Chick-Fil-A breakfast on August 24. Help us get to know the teachers,  facultyand staff as we continue to love on them!

RD

Still Standing

Remember as we read the book Proverbs together as a church over the course of the Still Standing Series…

1.) Daily Interactions with the “Chapter of the Day” will be posted on the new Summit Blog found at Summitrdu.com

2.) Read one chapter a day for 62 days (you will read the book of Proverbs twice)

3.) Memorize two passages from Proverbs together with your family, roomate or Summit Life Group (3:5-6 & 3:19-26)

What has God been teaching you so far? We would love to hear your comments…

RD

COLE MILL… SIGN UP to participate in this year’s campus wide Week of Hope adoption of Eno Valley Elementary.

After you sign up try this during and after Week of Hope:

Participate in City Events

Instead of playing XBox, watching TV, or surfing the net, participate in city events. Go to fundraisers, festivals, cleanups, summer shows, and concerts. Participate missionally. Strike up conversation. Study the culture. Reflect on what you see and hear. Pray for the city. Love the city.Participate with the city.

New Website

www.SummitRDU.com

Crossroads Summer Camp

This week we are at Crossroads Summer Camp with our middle and high school students. For daily updates please check out our student pastor- Jason Gaston’s BLOG.

Hope for the Office

Most of you spend 40-60 hours each week in your office. That means that you spend more time around your co-workers than you spend with your family. We want to help create an oppportunity for you to share the Gospel with your co-workers during the week of hope (July 5-12. If you want to provide breakfast/lunch for your office you just need to sign up for a free gift card for the Summit. We are offering Panera, Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s and BoJangles gift cards so you can find everything you like. Please don’t miss this opportunity to bless the people around your cubicle.

Who wouldn’t want free money to feed your coworkers? Sign up now!

What If Everyone Mattered?

Last week, Pastor Rick  introduced a new 3 week series that we are doing at all Summit campuses. “What if everyone mattered” is the underlying vision for this years week of hope. As followers of Christ we believe that everyone matters because we have been created in the image of God. Unfortunately, we are often guilty of thinking to highly of ourselves and not remembering where we were when Christ came near to us.

God has placed us in RDU and it wasn’t by mistake. He placed us here to put his glory on display and to think that we get to be a part of that is amazing. At the Summit, we have created an annual opportunity for us to serve together as a church. This year the week of hope offers more than 2100 volunteer opportunities and we have a waiting list. For whatever reason we have had several ministries (and public schools) contact us and ask for us to help them with some specific needs. You could attribute this to the economy or maybe it is the Lord opening up doors for ministry here in our own backyard.

Hope for RDU is going to be July 5th-12th.  We want EVERYBODY doing SOMETHING to impact our community. We want you to serve as an individual, as a family as a small group or as a campus. Specifically as a campus, we have adopted Eno Valley Elementary this year and we are going to love on the teachers, students and parents by giving the school a makeover. We will be power washing, cleaning, mulching, and building bookcases. There might even be a surprise project or two! To ensure that we take care of all the needs, Please register for this opportnity now. Also, please invite your neighbors/coworkers to join you as you serve to meet the needs of our neighborhood elementary school. (Friday 7/10 and Saturday 7/11) If you want to invite your friends to join you just email them this link http://www.hopeforrdu.org/eno

In addition to serving Eno Valley Elementary, we will be throwing a huge appreciation party for the men and women that put their lives on the line to make our city safe on Saturday morning 7/11. We are inviting all active (and retired) police, fire, EMS, sheriff, highway patrol and Duke campus police to bring their families out and enjoy themselves. This event will be taking place at the Durham Public Schools training facility at Hillandale Road and Carver Street. We will be serving lunch and we have several inflatable games which will ensure that each family has a great time. We need all types of people to help staff this event as we seek to display our appreciation to these amazing men and women. If you want to invite your friends to join you just email them this link www.hopeforRDU.org/emergency

The opportunity to be a blessing has been set up for you. Don’t miss out!

-Ryan