I have long believed that the next wave of missions will be carried forward on the wings of business. That’s why, a little over a year...

As many of you know, I spent seven weeks of this summer overseas on an extended mission trip. The elders of the Summit sent my family and...

Ryah Greear, dancing during a South African sunset As many of you know, Pastor J.D. has been in South Africa for the past few weeks on an...

When God called me to be a pastor, he did so by first calling me to the mission field. I spent the first two years of my ministry as a...

One of the big prayers we have at the Summit is that God would raise up our students to help fulfill the Great Commission. We...

This week, the International Mission Board announced that the 2015 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (the IMB’s primary source of funding)...

A couple weeks ago, Bill Ricketts announced his retirement from Prince Avenue Baptist Church (PABC) in Athens, GA. You may be wondering,...

We were honored (and more than a little surprised) to be used as a case study during the Exponential East conference earlier this year,...

If you missed David Platt’s (president of the IMB) visit to the Summit a few months ago, you need to watch this video. And even if...

Summit, this past weekend was a huge one in the life of our church—and, because of your faithfulness, it’s going to be a huge one for...

This weekend we had the bittersweet joy of commissioning another 75 Summit members, who are planting another four domestic church...

We were so encouraged and challenged a few weeks ago when David Platt, president of the IMB, came to The Summit Church. It is impossible...

A little under a decade ago, God gave The Summit Church a vision of planting 1,000 churches by the year 2050. When we first verbalized...

Summit family, I’ve got an exciting update to share with you. If you remember, during our Christmas services at DPAC we collected a...

I came across this Matt Papa song (again) recently. Incredibly powerful reminder of the importance and urgency of missions. “The mission...

There is a myth among Christians today when it comes to the idea of calling. Many of us are sitting around waiting for some “second call”...

For those of you here at the Summit, this weekend I asked an important question: who among us is climbing the mountains of poverty,...

The recent terrorist attacks in Paris have caused a lot of public debate—surrounding issues of immigration (broadly), refugees...

About a decade ago, God gave The Summit Church the audacious vision of planting 1,000 churches by the year 2050. At the time, we had two...

The following is an excerpt from Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send. The book comes out July 28, but if you...