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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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COLE MILL… SIGN UP to help serve one of our local elementary schools (Eno Valley Elementary).
After you sign up try this to prepare for Week of Hope:
Eat with Non-Christians
We all eat three meals a day. Why not make a habit of sharing one of those meals with a non-Christian or with a family of non-Christians? Go to lunch with a co-worker, not by yourself. Invite the neighbors over for family dinner. If it’s too much work to cook a big dinner, just order pizza and put the focus on conversation. When you go out for a meal, invite a non-Christian friend. Or take your family to family-style restaurants where you can sit at the table with strangers and strike up conversations. Have cookouts and invite Christians and non-Christians. Flee the Christian subculture.
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We are back.
Thank you so much for your prayer and financial support…NY ‘09 was a huge success and I think we all will miss NY, however I am personally glad to be home with Morgan and Samuel again (I sure did miss them!) Our leaders and students were amazing! Please continue to pray for The Gallery Church and Aaron Coe their lead pastor. NY needs the Gospel desperatly in a dark world of consumerism and idolatry.
Thank you Summit Church for the oppurtunity to serve Jesus in NY city!
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Okay, so today we were supposed to have a hard-core shopping day, but it rained. So we shopped for about four or five hours then we headed back to the hotel. At the hotel we took naps, played a bunch of card games, and I learned how to play a game called signs. Then at about six o’clock we ordered some Chinese. Then we played more games, watched tv, and just sat around. Later on in the night, Ryan took us to McDonalds to get some ice cream before bed. J After McDonalds, it was time to get in our rooms and wind-down. Today was a good day because it gave us a chance to spend quality time with each other and just have fun. Well I gotta wrap this up, but have a good night and we will update you tomorrow!
*Abbe Banker*
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hey hey hey!!!
today was a beautiful day in new york city. We had cloudy skies and a veeeery chilly temperature of 68. Nobody brought the right cloths for this trip. ANYWAYS! We got up and passed out inviter cards for the gallery church with granola which seemed to work a lot better. After we ate with the interns from the church at a BBQ place. Nick felt like he was at home with deer horns on the wall and a BBQ sandwich in front of him. Then we got on the ferry and took a trip around the statue of liberty. We saw this man doing some cool art on the street, and some lame wanna be break dancers on a corner that bossed around. very uncool. We ate dinner and then all the cool kids went shopping while the lameos went back to the hotel. We are all very tired and would like to go to bed now…so GOODNIGHT!
~Courtney Clayton
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This mornin’ we handed out Gallery Church inviter cards in Madison Square Park. The success rate for someone actually taking an inviter card is low, but the success rate for some one coming to the church is even lower. The motivation for doing this to help the Galley Church spread the gospel throughout out the city.
After lunch, we went back to to the Gallery Church’s new office/meeting space and painted over the old nasty walls. We painted the walls white and we also painted the bathroom. It now looks very good.
Later this evening, we went to the interns apartment and grilled hotdogs on the roof! After supper on the roof, we played card games with them. We were to able to form relationships with the interns and that was really cool. :) We tried to find celebrities on the streets far below but were unsuccessful.
Nick (red) McFarland
Freshman, Roxboro Community School
