Things Going on at WCC (5/16/12)
May 16th
WCC, take a look at some of the things going on in the life of our church.
1. Starting Point
We’ll be hosting Starting Point on Sunday May 20 during the 11am service. This is the place to learn more about Summit while meeting new friends and enjoying free brunch. We’ll be discussing things such as the mission and vision of Summit, membership, small groups, volunteering, etc. You can rsvp here.
2. EK Powe Spring Carnival
E.K. Powe Elementary will be having their Spring Carnival on Sat. June 2 from 10:30am-2pm. Come out and serve our community by helping with food and games. We’ll be having signups after each service in the INFO area of the lobby this Sunday.
3. Young Pros Cookout
It’s not often that we have a WCC Young Pros event, so make sure to be there on Sunday May 27 at Oval Park for a cookout after the 11am service. FOOD WILL BE FREE! Come out and meet Logan Dagley, our Young Pros Pastor, and other fellow YP’s.
Contact Peter (ppark@summitrdu.com) for any questions or more info on any of the three things above.
Equip: Leadership Forum
May 10th
The final EQUIP: Leadership Forum for the season is next Tuesday, May 15th from 6:30-8:30pm. The topic for the main session will be “Discipleship: Leading Others in Gospel Growth” and will feature teaching by Small Groups Pastor Spence Shelton. Spence will take us through Summit’s plan for personal discipleship and methodology. Please RSVP at www.summitrdu.com/leadership to let us know you are coming and what cohort you’ll be joining.
If you have been involved in raising up leaders, discipling others, or you’ve taken up the call from April’s Forum (click on the bottom right video clip) to pour yourselves into others, then you’ll want to hear Spence’s talk. Small group leaders, we would love to have you there to hear and interact with vision from your pastor in the first and second sessions of the evening.
The Main Session will be shorter, but action packed with great teaching and some vital summer opportunities to consider. The cohort time will pick up from there to give extra time to the discipleship that happens during the second hour of the Forums. Cohorts include: Church Planting, Preparing for Marriage, Worship and the Arts, and Small Groups.
We won’t have another EQUIP: Leadership Forum this summer, so it’s your last chance, for a while, to hear vision from Summit pastors and connect with other leaders in the church. If you need childcare for the event, please let us know by Sunday night. We look forward to seeing everyone there!
Feeding of the …200?
May 9th
“Truly, I say to you, as you did to the least of these my
brothers, you did to me.”
–Matthew 25:40 (ESV)
Last month, Summit’s Homeless Ministry had a chance to show Christ’s love to the “least of these” in our city, by preparing and serving dinner to over 200 homeless and working poor in downtown Durham.
As part of our church’s wider focus on the five overlooked people groups of our community (homeless/refugees, orphans, prisoners, unwed mothers, high school dropouts), Summit’s team has partnered with the Urban Ministries soup kitchen and homeless shelter of Durham (www.umdurham.org). As part of this service, we were able to step forward and help meet a very real physical need faced by many in our community. But even more importantly, we were able to help meet the deeper spiritual need, for Jesus’s saving grace, by abandoning the traditional “church group serving/people being served” divide and instead joining the homeless for dinner! The evening of fellowship led to many Christ-centered conversations and a building of ongoing relationships as our team continues to minister and serve.
And this next Monday, May 14, we will have another chance to bring the meal (and God’s love) to the homeless. If you would like to join the team in helping out, please email kellandickens@gmail.com.