So I got to do the most stressful thing every college student goes through yesterday. I got to sign up for next semester's classes. Oh the joy! It is very difficult to find classes that I need to graduate at this point. I did get to sign up for a class that I am really pumped about. I am going to take a History and Practice of Christian Missions class. Being that missions is one of my all-time passions along with baseball.
Basically this class will give different ways that The Great Commission has bee carried out over the past centuries. It will show the different models that have and can be used to be missionaries to people all over the world. It is apparent to me that The Great Commission can be carried out in different ways and that different models should be used in our local area than what should be used in other nations.
I say all of this to say that I am excited about the Peru trip in December! I have really been thinking about it a lot these past few weeks. I came to the realization the other day that this trip in December will be one that sets up many more trips this summer to carry out The Great Commission. I then began to think of the impact that will be made in Peru. Kevin Chafin said it best. "We're gonna invade Peru."
Alright! At the end of this week Summit has a group traveling up to Dirty Jersey. While in Jeresy our group will be working with Maranatha Baptist Church to help get them back on their feet. We will be going up there to get their name out to the community and help them be a light to their community. The group will be gone all during their fall break. So please be in prayer for this group this week and as they travel to help another church. I know they are going to do some awesome things up there and touch a lot of lives.
On another note there is a trip to Peru that is scheduled for December 29-January5. There will be a group of about 5 going as a vision trip for the youth group trip in the summer. We are also looking to see what else we will be able to do for the other 2 or 3 trips that will be taking to Peru. Also we will be evangelizing and building more relationships with the people in the village. So get excited about that and start praying for the people in the village that we will be working with.
Tune in next time for some updates about the Jersey and Peru trips!
Matt Davis
I'm currently sitting at the Barnes and Noble's in Baltimore, MD at the Inner Harbor. Across from me is a psychological "coach" meeting with another woman. I try not to ease drop on conversations, because I wouldn't want someone to do the same thing. However, when explicit language was being used ever-so-loudly I tend to notice, particularly when a woman is saying it (not to say that men should be able to use such language either).
Well, students are most certainly here! Welcome back!
So it's FALL AGAIN!
That means school starts back. It stinks because students (including myself) have to return to classes (which aren't that bad), but tests, and homework (the evils of learning)...those are awful.
It will be good to see friends, you honestly start missing people when they're not around, even if their personality is not quite your favorite...though you normally are quickly reminded upon their return. : )
Anyways, with all the students heading back to the Charleston area, that means SUMMIT NATION will be heading out again...so...
coming at SPRING BREAK, SUMMIT NATION will INVADE NEW JERSEY (aka Dirty Jerz).
We will be partnering with a local church in NJ to help with REVITALIZATION efforts up in the great northeast!
More info to follow on that...that being said...
We are also going once more into the land of PERU for Christmas Break (this will be a YOUTH GROUP VISION TRIP), so not so many college students, however, we will be sending in a team of 5 or so to evaluate an upcoming trip of college student mentors taking their youth group students (the Mentees...see below) they are mentoring over with them to PERU. For more info contact SUMMIT's Youth Pastor Jeremy Nuckolls (JNUCK) about that trip...and find out "how to be a mentor" to those in the YOUTH!
Another note, I've decided that those people who are being mentored by college students will now be called "mentees"...like minty, but spelled different...so to get you a MENTEE talk to JNUCK!
We will be working also to send some crazy mission folks N2 the SOUTHEAST ASIA area...if anyone wants to know more details, they should be at SUMMIT throughout the semester to hear more about these opportunities in the land that is not the place beside JAPAN.
So...there will be updates here throughout the year, but I encourage as always to come to SUMMIT and get INVOLVED PEOPLE!
Most "older" people are saying that this college-age generation is about CHANGE, and how they can "buy" products or go to stores that are initiating CHANGE, so here's your opportunity to change lives for CHRIST, and to make an ETERNAL DIFFERENCE in the world!
Welcome Back! Now LEARN something!
Nicholas
Well, Apologetics is out of the way for this semester and now only a Systematic Theology exam tomorrow, then a break till August.
I spoke with Jeremy Pollett today and it was great to hear what God is doing in the life of Summit's College Ministry and Minister.
I asked Pollett how the College Ministry was looking and shaping up for the Fall with Eli Byrd helping out, and how his VISION was going for the Fall.
He told me that he was finalizing some ideas, though he was taking awhile with it because he didn't have peace about everything yet
This is good news! Its not that I rejoice in his struggles (though we are too as well), but that I know he's prayerfully considering where the Lord would lead him this Fall, and that he's praying over God's VISION for lives to be changed at CSU and Summit Nation in the Fall.
It leads me to a suggestion: I would like to suggest that those who read this that are Christian Leaders in their household begin to pray for a VISION from God of where He would want you to lead your family in the next year.
Most people don't like to talk about the "man is the head of the household", though biblically he is.
The problem however lies in the fact that WE are putting "authority" which is there, but sometimes misunderstood on the head of the household.
God should be the Leader, Overseer, Head of the household. I personally find that things work better to Gods glory and for my benefit (not necessarily meaning "beneficial in a worldly sense, but a biblical sense) if I seek God's will in it beforehand. So what, head of household, is God's VISION for your family this year.
Nicholas
Right now I'm in Peoria, IL still traveling for work, and I'll be away from Summit till July 20th or so. While I'm gone I am of course still working on my school work and thankfully finishing this last week before starting my final courses in the Fall.
Right now outside of my hotel room there are around 9 what I have called "death-dragon bugs", and I am afraid of them. They are best described as a dragon fly, with a string-rays tail, and a fly's body. They are extremely dangerous and have tried to kill people already, I believe they could've been the original plague sent by God to free the Jews from slavery in Egypt, now living in Illinois. Scary I know.
Also, I'm about to start typing my final research paper for Systematic Theology and my topic is "The Problem of Sin". I look forward to this 30 page paper because it will be something interesting to write about, and hopefully something that will teach me as well as others about the aforementioned topic. There are many different concepts to incorporate within this paper, and most of them will be coming from Scripture, while I must use at a minimum 10 resources as well (though I prefer to hear from the Ultimate Authority regarding biblical theology: the Word of God.
Anyways, I hope everyone is doing well at Summit, and to those in leadership there with me I pray that you are looking to the future, if the Lord tarries, and discovering what God's will is for your individual ministries within Summit.
Nick
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