A Red Chair Church

Check out our Summit's vision as we seek to be a red chair church and follow God's will for our lives.

Vision Sunday from Summit Community Church on Vimeo.

Celebration 2010

Celebrate what God has done at Summit this past year:

Children's Ministry Vision 2010

Check out Children's Ministry Director Jamie Wolf's vision for Children's Ministry for this year:

Reaching out and sharing faith

Tom has an inspirational story of sharing faith. Check it out:

Serving Others in Children's Ministry

Hear Stephanie's story of serving others through helping our 2's program.




Interested in serving at Summit? Click here and let us know what you'd like to help out with.

Partnering Through Giving

Check out this story of someone at our church who has grown in faith through giving.



Ready to take this step of faith? Check out this link.

Baptism Bash 2010

We had an awesome time at the Verrado Village pool for our Baptism Bash on Oct 3.

Check it out:

Don't Be a Hoarder.

Got some stuff you're hoarding? Items cluttering up your house? What better way to get rid of them than donating them to the Mexico Mission trip Yard Sale. All proceeds benefit the Mexico Mission Trip, so you know its for a good cause. The Yard Sale is on October 9th, so come and check it out and invite your friends.

Contact Char to drop off/have her pick up your items you'd like to donate: charlotte_bentz@yahoo.com

Check out Char's promo from this past Sunday:

Resources for Your Sex Life

This Sunday at Summit, we're tackling the topic of sex. God created us with a sexual design and provided it for us as a tremendous gift in the context of marriage. But too often the world pushes a cheap imitation, built around temporary gratification and limited commitment.

Today I encourage you to grow in your understanding of and commitment to sex God's way. For teens and adults in the dating scene, make decisions with a future spouse in mind. For those living with someone, make the choice to get married and honor God with a life-long commitment. For those impacted by porn, seek accountability. For frustrated and unfulfilled spouses, reach out and look for the resources you need to make a change.

God has designed sex as an incredible gift when enjoyed as he planned! Here are some practical and helpful resources to check out:

Q&A about Sex with Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott
When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriages
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
Learning About Sex (resource for parents & kids)
Internet Filtering
Crazy Good Sex
Local Christian Counselors - Dr. Meloney Nunez & Alan Heller

You may have heard in worship how helpful Dr. Les & Leslie Parrott have been for many couples. Read one of their books above or take advantage of the many resources available to help you grow in this important area of life.

Pastor Nate

Bender Family Serves in Haiti

The Bender family will be traveling to Haiti this fall to spend a few months there and serve through providing clean water filters through waterislife, working on local construction projects and teaching in an orphanage there, among many other things.

Check out their video to learn more about their trip.

If you'd like to help them, check out their flyer for more details: www.summitcc.org/benderhaiti.jpeg

Time to Make a Change

I could see it in people’s eyes this past week at worship. I could hear it in the voices of people I talked to after church. I read it in the e-mails we got this week. People are ready to make a change in their financial life.

What’s cool is that so many are wrestling with the spiritual questions that lie behind making a lasting change. They have gotten to the point where they know making a financial change takes a completely different view of money than most people have… Living within what God provides. Avoiding debt. Being prepared. Living generously. Knowing that it’s God’s stuff, not mine. Building wealth for all the right reasons.

I’m praying like crazy that many people trust God’s way of handling money and start to make changes. Not sometime down the road. Now! I believe that we will see a bunch of people at Summit who look back thankfully a year from now and only wish they had made a change sooner.

If you are ready to make a change, sign up today for Financial Peace University at Summit. Read books like The Total Money Makeover. Talk to our church office about meeting with a financial counselor. Teach your kids how to handle money using Financial Peace Jr. Discover the joy of giving by reading the Treasure Principle. Make today the day you swear off debt and begin saving for the future.

Whatever your next step is, trust God and take it today.

Pastor Nate

Growth Groups Starting September 12

Check out what one of our Growth Groups had to say about how GGs are important to them. You can browse GG options here.

If you have any other questions, email Jim at smallgroups@summitcc.org

Join us this Growth Group season, connect with friends and grow in God's Word.

The Mexico Mission Trip is revving up.

Charlotte was in church last week to talk about the Mexico Mission Trip coming up on President's Day Weekend 2010. She gave a funny promotion as always, check out the video below:

Fan Sunday was an awesome time

Check out this video from our fan Sunday. Teams were represented, and people came wearing jerseys. But there was one jersey that was absent from the festivities...

Fan Sunday

Phoenix is an interesting town because fans have moved here from all over the country. Especially on the growing edges of town, it’s a melting pot of many different loyalties.

I love it when people are willing to step out and represent their team, no matter what anyone else thinks. We’ve got some misguided Jazz fans at church, but you gotta appreciate their passion. You can easily tell how loyal somebody is by the way they talk about “their team.”

That’s why we decided to have fun with this and declare August 15th FAN SUNDAY at Summit.

Everyone in the community is invited to join us and represent their team. Whether it’s a sports team or another group, we are encouraging people to wear a jersey or some other gear to church this weekend… It’s going to be a fun and creative day to explore what he Bible says about loyalty in our life and faith.

We hope that sports fans, and guys especially, are willing to come and check out worship this Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Many new people at Summit share their surprise that many Christian leaders & people they meet are “ordinary” & down-to-earth. I hope that many more discover this weekend that they’ll fit right in as well.

My biggest sports addictions are to the NFL (fantasy football) and the LA Lakers. As my family will tell you. I’ve been a Lakers fan far too long to change, but some Suns fans are determined to give it a shot! They even kidnapped my jersey a couple weeks ago and threatening it on Facebook in some hilarious ways. Check it out here – I hope my jersey comes back by the weekend, but I’m not holding my breath!

Pastor Nate