Gospel-sending is a renewed force within gospel-centered churche
$39 includes a full day of two main sessions, 30+ breakouts, and a digital folder of follow-up resources.
Breakout Information | Registr
Session placement is subject to change. More sessions topics will be added soon including: lead pastors, pastors’ wives, multi-site, church planting, evangelism, and communications.
Breakout 1
Creating a Healthy Staff Culture
Hiring, getting people in the right seat on the bus, building trust/relationships, investing in your staff, creating a culture of generosity, sending culture, etc.
Poised To Go: Local Outreach Creates People Who Live Sent
Explore how to design local outreach and community ministry to be a relationship-oriented, disciple-making ministry that prepares disciples to be sent to the ends of the earth.
Sending to the Ends of the Earth: Overseas Missions and Church Planting
Mobilizing the church for short-, mid-, and long-term missions and church planting amongst the nations in support of planting 1,000 churches in our generation.
Running the Weekend
Learn best practices for bringing order to the chaos created by planning and executing worship services.
Women’s Ministry Redefined
If we as a church want to plant a thousand churches by 2050, we must take seriously the discipleship of our women. Fluffy theology and pink tea parties are no longer an option.
GO NOW: How to Mobilize College Students to the Nations
Recruit, assess, train, and send college students through the local church to the nations.
Lunch & Learns
Saints and Songs
Practical Ways to create and distribute original recordings to your congregation.
Operations Roundtable
Which processes are working at your church? Where are you stuck? Join in a systems and logistics discussion with other ministry leaders led by our pastor of operational development.
Assimilation & Membership: Making Outsiders Insiders
A lunch conversation about what is essential (and what’s not) for moving weekend guest into covenant community in the local church.
Production and Tech Panel
Spend time with some of the Summit’s production directors and discuss how technology can be utilized to enhance your church’s worship service.
Breakout 2
Poised To Go: Local Outreach Creates People Who Live Sent
Explore how to design local outreach and community ministry to be a relationship-oriented, disciple-making ministry that prepares disciples to be sent to the ends of the earth.
Multi-Site 101
Whether your thinking of going multi-site or have launched your first few campuses, we’ll survey current practices and offer a robust Q&A.
Boiler Room
Stoking the fire and mobilizing the church to pray as a source of power for the mission of the church.
It’s Discipleship, Not Fundraising
What we’ve learned building a Stewardship Ministry.
The Sermon Starts in the Parking Lot: Setting the Table for First-Time Guests
Most guests just need one good reason to give up on your church. Each weekend, your goal should be to eliminate those reasons by removing all distractions that take away from the gospel message.
Missionaries Are Made in Community
This breakout seeks to clarify a commonly assumed but rarely developed pathway from community to mission in the local church.
Breakout 3
Sending to the Ends of the Earth: Overseas Missions and Church Planting
Mobilizing the church for short-, mid-, and long-term missions and church planting amongst the nations in support of planting 1,000 churches in our generation.
Missionaries Are Made in Community
This breakout seeks to clarify a commonly assumed but rarely developed pathway from community to mission in the local church.
Not Sameness, but Oneness: Being a Multi-Cultural Church
Our most passionate desire and heart’s cry is that Jesus’s disciples in our church reflect those he has given us in our city. As missionaries to our city, we intentionally pursue people. We are determined that nothing will hinder us from making disciples – not language, not politics, not socio-economic status, not education, not age, and certainly not race.
Worship for the Weekend
From principle to practical, everything you want to know about weekend worship leadership at The Summit Church.
10 Keys to Ensure Caring Is Helping
As churches get more involved in the hurting segments of their community, pastors need to become more skilled at helping members discern the line between helping and enabling.