Summit All-Campus Choir!
Jan 28th
Guest blogger: Pastor Chris Gaynor
The Summit All Campus Choir launches Wednesday February 1st at 6:45pm in the Bay at Brier Creek.
Let us know you’re coming and/or RSVP for childcare today!
This year, for the first time, we are launching a Summit All-Campus Choir! Starting February 1st, we’ll spend 8 weeks together rehearsing for a concert of worship for the whole church on Friday, April 6th (Good Friday.)
This new format allows us some key advantages and new opportunities. We now have the ability to invite people from every campus to be a part of the choir, while maintaining a commitment to their local campus. Some of you have not been able to be a part of the choir because you believed it was better for your family to attend a different campus. Others of you would love to go to a different campus, but your commitment to the choir has kept you at Brier Creek. Now you have the chance to do both – attend another campus and be part of the choir! This also gives those of you who historically have not been able to make a year-long commitment to the choir a new chance to join us.
In a church of over 6,000 people, I’m praying for a huge turnout of people who want to be a part of this. If you love to sing and worship, this is for you! If you sang in a high school or college choir and miss getting the chance to sing, this is your opportunity to do it again. If you always wanted to sing in a choir but never have, here’s your chance! Even though we plan to do this again in the fall, you only need to commit for this session of 8 weeks.
We hope you’ll join us on February 1st! Let us know if you can make it and/or RSVP for childcare today!
Summit Church – Denver
Jan 25th
Our church plant in Denver, CO is one year old. This past Sunday they had 95 people attend their worship gathering (a record #) and they had 5 people profess faith in Christ through baptism. This is amazing. I wanted to share some images with you so you could see and celebrate. You should book mark their website and keep up with what God is doing in Denver.
brad
Are you in College? Use your summer
Jan 24th
This is the time of year when college students start thinking about that far-off time when we will have a couple months free to do something awesome – we talkin’ ’bout summer. When I was in college the question was between an internship or a missions trip. If you’re in the same boat (or maybe missions trip isn’t even on the radar for you), I want to challenge you to take a hard look at spending your summer working to advance the gospel.
Here’s what you didn’t expect me to say: You can spend your summer working to advance the gospel at an internship. Pastor JD said it well at the Equip leadership forum on Tuesday: “Take what you’re called to do and 1) do it well for the glory of God, and 2) do it somewhere strategic.” Your calling may include designing the next generation of prosthetic leg, and sharing the gospel with your co-workers while you do it. The point is that we can proclaim Jesus wherever we are.
Here’s what you did expect me to say: Look at using 100% of your time this summer for sharing the gospel. By this I mean missions. The best summers of my life have been when I was dedicating my time to worshipping Jesus by telling others about Him. Especially if you aren’t sure that you are “called” to your major, spend a summer doing what you know you are called to do as a follower of Christ (Matt. 28).
You might think, “I’m going to get behind in my career if I don’t do an internship this summer.” Here’s an interesting fact for you: surveys of Fortune 500 CEOs have shown that a ridiculously high percentage of them served in the Marines. This service taught them how to follow, how to lead, and how to do it with conviction and integrity. I think that the same holds true for missions. Your time spent on missions trips will not put you behind. You will spend your time sharing the good news with people, and you will develop character that you would not have gotten otherwise.
Here’s one missions option for you:
City Project -
This is Summit’s summer missions project, and it will take you to New York City to reach Muslims, to downtown Durham to love your neighbor, and overseas to one of three locations to have your view of the world rocked. Learn more about it and apply at the City Project website.
Hear from Nick, one of the City Project students from last year about what City Project is all about – he has a post on JD’s blog.
Even if you aren’t sure this is what you want to do this summer: pray, apply (if you don’t apply then it’s not even an option for you), pray some more, and see where God leads you. Applications are due Friday, January 27th.
Jon