MISSIONS AT SUMMIT

Summit Church’s missionary goal is to send and sustain qualified gospel proclaimers across significant barriers – geographic, cultural, and linguistic – to make disciples and establish local churches through the power of the Holy Spirit, prioritizing opportunities where Christ has not been named (and therefore God not yet worshipped).

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Our approach to missions is intentional and holistic, involving three distinct efforts:

  1. Preparing the Church – Cultivating a culture of passion for God’s mission that touches every believer. Through mission-focused preaching, conferences, short-term trips, and discipleship programs for youth and children, we aim to make global purposes part of daily life.

  2. Preparing Workers – Identifying, training, and discipling those called to missions. Through internships, training schools, and eldership-focused discipleship, we raise up workers who are spiritually mature and fully equipped for the field.

  3. Sending and Supporting Workers – Guiding, supporting, and celebrating those serving on the mission field. From financial support to field visits and pastoral guidance, we walk alongside our missionaries in every stage of their journey.

We distinguish missions from other valuable work such as evangelism and benevolence, which are also vital but are supported separately to ensure resources align with our core missionary goal.

At Summit Church, we are committed to faithfully stewarding our resources of time, finances, teaching, and care to ensure that the gospel reaches places where it is least known. Together, we strive to be partners in the mission of God, extending His kingdom and love to all nations.

MISSIONS

The Latin noun for “a sending” is missio. The Latin Vulgate, translated by Jerome in the 4th Century, blended many Greek words for sending into one lexical root of missio as a noun and mittere as a verb.

This concept was transliterated into English as mission and missionary. The Greek roots that were combined to form the lexical word group of missio include apostello (to commission with authority), pempo (generally to send), and ekballo (to thrust out).

Acts 26:17b-18

Romans 10:14-15

MISSIONARY

One who is sent by the church to accomplish the task of missions.

“the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out (ekbale) laborers into his harvest.”

Matthew 9:37-38

BENEVOLENCE

Care provided for someone who is in need, can be local, cross-cultural, or non-local forms of financial or service provision for people who are suffering.

CHURCH

CHURCH

A local instance of Christ’s global Church, in its most complete form is a self-propagating unit of believers under the leadership of elders/overseers meeting Scripture’s expectation of believers in Christian community.

1 Timothy 3:14b-15

Titus 1:5

Acts 14:21-23

When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Romans 15:20-21

and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, noT where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation, but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.”