Danny Franks

AM Peeps, we have a transportation need within the congregation.  A gentleman who is living in a facility in Raleigh (close to the Crabtree / downtown area) needs a ride to church on Sunday morning, either service.

If you’re interested in helping out, e-mail me.

On Sunday we said goodbye to a high-octane family that’s been a part of the Summit for the last five years.  Russell, Ingrid, Evelyn, Sabrina, Markus, & Lukas flew out Sunday morning to Ukraine, where they will serve for the next season of their life.  Russell will be teaching at Kiev Theological Seminary, where he’ll be training Ukranian church planters to go out from their country as missionaries.  Ingrid will be serving in local church ministry, working with both women’s and counseling ministry.

Summit, you’re continuing to build a reputation as a sending church.  We don’t hang on to good people…we send them out to serve in the uttermost parts of the earth!

Here are a few ways you can pray for and support the Woodbridge fam:

• Pick up a copy of their prayer card (pictured above) at the Coffee Bar on Sunday morning.
• E-mail Russell if you’d like to be a part of their prayer updates.
• Check out their new blog (and add it to your RSS feed) to keep up with life in Kiev.

Today’s post is courtesy of Matt Clark, Community and Church Planting Associate.

Hey Gang – I am the Community and Church Planting Associate… or for your purposes, the missions representative for Brier Creek AM.  You can always find me hanging out by the coffee bar talking about missions and outreach.

At the Brier Creek AM campus have an opportunity to make an instant impact on the community around us.  Can you imagine what would happen if all 1,500 of us showed up at a project to serve?!  Well, we are going to be a little more strategic than that – we are planning to spread out to several projects during the Week of Hope.  This year we have several “campus specific” projects that will give us the opportunity serve beside people that we usually just see in passing on Sunday mornings. 

We are going to continue our ministry to Durham County Schools by starting new partnerships with 3 schools within a 10 mile radius of the Brier Creek Campus.  Please consider investing part of Friday or Saturday of the Week of Hope serving these wonderful schools:

• Oak Grove Elementary – a school that is 85% African American, 10% Hispanic and is lead by a dynamic principal Andrea Carroll.
• Maureen-Joy Charter  – a free, public, open-enrollment school where over 85% of students qualify for “free lunch.”
• Kestrel Heights School – a local public charter school that boasts our own Willis Foster as a member of their faculty.

How can you get signed up?  Starting this Sunday you can go to www.hopeforrdu.org/week-of-hope/ and find all the information you need.  We will also have sign-up available at the SummitLIFE kiosk in the lobby on Sunday morning.  Another heads up for this Sunday: bring $5 and you can be the first to own this year’s Week of Hope T-shirt.  These shirts will not only advertise our ministry, but will be a catalyst for discussions on the value of each individual in our city.