Upcoming Trips

NYC (5019)

New York City 3/15/2020 to 3/21/2020 $950.00

Gateway cities bring the unreached peoples from the other side of the globe to our backyard, making the world a smaller place. One prime example of this is New York City. These team members will be a part of sharing the gospel right in our backyard, reaching unreached people groups and growing in your faith. During the week they will be trained in how to share the gospel and then have opportunities to share the gospel with those who have never heard before! This team will return home with invaluable prayer and evangelism skills, while also knowing that the Lord used the to make an impact an impact for His Kingdom not just in NYC, but all around the world.

Estimated trip cost: $950.00
Applications and $150.00 deposit due November 16, 2019.

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Bulgaria - April (5065)

Sofia, Bulgaria 4/3/2020 to 4/11/2020 $2,000.00

On this mission trip to the beautiful country of Bulgaria, this team will be working with our local missionaries to further their strategy for reaching this country with the good news. Examples of what we may be doing include conversational English, prayer-walking, training elementary teachers in teaching methods and study skills, teaching parenting, and primarily, blessing and encouraging our missionaries.

Estimated trip cost: $2,000.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due December 5, 2019.

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Mexico Students (3287)

Mexico 4/6/2020 to 4/12/2020 $1,450.00

Our Middle School Family Mission Trips are an incredible opportunity for our 5th-8th grade students and their parents to partner with international church planters who are making the name of Jesus known beyond RDU. These trips are specifically designed for both students and parents who have never served overseas, though anyone is welcome.

Estimated trip cost: $1,450.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due December 8, 2019.

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South Asia - April (5032)

South Asia 4/11/2020 to 4/20/2020 $2,050.00

In this buzzing, strategic city in South Asia, less than 2% of the population would claim to follow Jesus. This country is enveloped in lostness. On this 10 day trip, participants will join the long term team in working alongside national partners and the church to bring the gospel into slum communities and Red Light areas. The main work will be prayer, evangelism, and encouraging missionaries and national believers.

Estimated trip cost: $2,050.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due December 13, 2019.

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East Asia - May (5037)

East Asia 5/1/2020 to 5/10/2020 $2,550.00

This team's primary focus is to support our long-term field partners as they minister to the unreached people of their region. With a heart for the nearby villages, the vision is to first reach the city through building relationships with students and sharing the gospel, and then equipping the saved to take the gospel back to their villages that have little to no gospel presence. Most of our time will be spent on college campuses (though there will be a visit to the village) and hanging out at local shops. We will focus on relationship-building on college campuses, sharing the gospel off-campus, and connecting people with the local team for discipleship. If you are highly relational and a self-starter, pray about joining our team! Our main day-to-day responsibilities will be initiating relationships and inviting students to lunch, coffee, sports, etc. as a way to get to know them and share Christ with them.

Estimated trip cost: $2,550.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due January 2, 2020.

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Austria - May (5063)

Vienna, Austria 5/15/2020 to 5/24/2020 $2,050.00

Come join us as we obey God by going to Vienna, Austria. See and be drawn closer to Jesus through prayer & service to others. We need your Spirit-given gifts for teaching, exhorting, praying & serving as we invest in and encourage the Summit field workers there. We will work with the in-country leaders to train in discipleship, small groups and sharing our stories. We will prayer walk and invite those we meet to connect with our local hosts. We will simply love the worker families stationed in this vibrant but dark city. Our trip will be 9 very full days. Prayer will be everywhere, and the fuel for every bit of effort. Daily devotions along with planned and unplanned time of worship will be prevalent throughout. Rich, abundant growth through your faithfulness in saying YES is assured. You will never be the same - sign up today and see what our Lord will do.

Estimated trip cost: $2,050.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due January 16, 2020.

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City Life Local 2020

RDU 5/16/2020 to 7/16/2020 $450.00

City Life (CL) is about equipping college students to connect their faith to their work in the marketplace. Through CL, we hope to demonstrate how your work matters to God and how you can leverage your passions and skills in your vocation for the mission of God. CL is a hands-on, theological, and marketplace practicum to teach students how to make disciples that make disciples in the marketplace and be excellent in their future careers. In CL Local, students work a summer-long internship within their field of study. Once a week, they meet in D-groups to discuss what they are reading and how it applies to their jobs. Throughout the summer, students attend weekend forums where they will learn about faith and work integration from those who work within the marketplace. If you want to understand the significance of your future career and how you can leverage it for the gospel, then CL is for you! City Life is open to college students only.

Estimated trip cost: $450.00
Applications and $150.00 deposit due January 17, 2020.

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City Project 2020

Various Cities 5/19/2020 to 7/16/2020 $5,150.00

City Project is a two-month, intensive discipleship and missional experience where college students serve locally, nationally, and internationally. City Project includes one week in New York City, five weeks in Durham, and two weeks overseas. Students learn how to apply the gospel to every aspect of their lives and make disciples who make disciples. These eight weeks immerse students in the local church and global cities and teach them how to practically love God, love each other, and love our world. Students travel to New York City for one week to engage Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists with the gospel. The middle of the summer includes several weeks in Wake Forest, North Carolina, receiving practical theological and ministry training by pastors at the Summit. During this time, students will learn to effectively share the gospel and give their lives away in RDU in response to the gospel. During the last two weeks of the summer, students will travel abroad to serve alongside Summit church planters. This is an excellent opportunity to explore the mission of God, develop a heart for the nations, and better understand what it means to leverage your life for the gospel of Jesus Christ. City Project is open to college students only.

Estimated trip cost: $5,150.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due January 20, 2020.

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Second City 2020

Various Cities 5/19/2020 to 7/16/2020 $4,300.00

Second City is a two-month, intensive, international discipleship and missional experience. Students spend a brief time training at the Summit and are then sent to New York, Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Africa, or Southeast Asia for eight weeks to work alongside Summit church planters and partners. Each team is made up of four to eight students and led by a Summit College staff member. This is a great opportunity for any upperclassman to grow deeper in their understanding of the global mission of God and truly put their faith into practice! Second City is open to college students only.

Estimated trip cost: $4,300.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due January 20, 2020.

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Central Asia - June (5030)

Central Asia 6/9/2020 to 6/18/2020 $2,300.00

This team will seek to come alongside Summit members serving long-term in Central Asia. We will be spending time serving and encouraging the team there in hopes of building them up as we engage with their culture and ministry. In addition, we will serve by assisting with a kid's sports camp in the city and out in a village. After going and seeing what God is doing through the body of Christ in Central Asia, this team will be encouraged and emboldened to return home and respond to how the Lord wants us to serve where we live and share the gospel in our community.

Estimated trip cost: $2,300.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due February 10, 2020.

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NYC - June (5040)

New York City 6/13/2020 to 6/20/2020 $1,100.00

Gateway cities bring the unreached peoples from the other side of the globe to our backyard, making the world a smaller place. One prime example of this is New York City. These team members will be a part of sharing the gospel right in our backyard, reaching unreached people groups and growing in your faith. During the week they will be trained in how to share the gospel and then have opportunities to share the gospel with those who have never heard before! This team will return home with invaluable prayer and evangelism skills, while also knowing that the Lord used the to make an impact an impact for His Kingdom not just in NYC, but all around the world.

Estimated trip cost: $1,100.00
Applications and $150.00 deposit due February 14, 2020.

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Atlanta - Students (3284)

Atlanta, Georgia 6/19/2020 to 6/23/2020 $850.00

Join this student team as we go to partner with Image Church in Atlanta, Georgia, a church plant of the Summit Church. Image Church has an annual field day that we will help organize and execute. In addition to that, there will be a few “ServeRDU”-like projects that we will be working on as well. This is a great opportunity to introduce students to missions, without being too far from home!

Estimated trip cost: $850.00
Applications and $150.00 deposit due February 20, 2020.

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Guatemala - Students (5018)

Guatemala 6/20/2020 to 6/27/2020 $1,850.00

Join other high school students from all-campuses at The Summit Church for a journey to Central America. We will be using VBS, music, simple Bible studies, sustainable living projects & visiting local's homes to interact with children, students, & their parents. There will be ample opportunity to share the gospel and grow in your evangelism. This will strengthen the efforts of our local missionaries who serve in several impoverished villages. All our efforts will be to expand their influence and ability to reach their own area with the Gospel. This trip is in partnership with The International Mission Board and Trek-X.

Estimated trip cost: $1,850.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due February 21, 2020.

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Detroit Students

Detroit, Michigan 6/24/2020 to 6/28/2020 $1,000.00

The Detroit trip is one of the best opportunities we have available to our 5th - 8th grade students here at The Summit Church. This trip will be a good mixture of fun, service to the poor and cultural engagement within one of the largest Arab/Muslim populations in America. Parents are welcome to attend as a leader but are not required. We assure you that the trip is safe, as this will be the sixth time we have taken a team to Detroit. We will be partnering with local Detroit ministries that are serving the poor communities in downtown. You will undoubtedly have greater compassion and love for the poor and for Muslims after participating in this trip.

Estimated trip cost: $1,000.00
Applications and $150.00 deposit due February 25, 2020.

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South Asia - Students

South Asia 6/26/2020 to 7/6/2020 $2,450.00

In this buzzing, strategic city in South Asia, less than 2% of the population would claim to follow Jesus. This country is enveloped in lostness. On this 10 day trip, high school students will join the long term team in working alongside national partners and the church to bring the gospel onto university campuses and in professional workplaces. The main work will be prayer, evangelism, equipping believers, and encouraging missionaries and national believers.

Estimated trip cost: $2,450.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due February 27, 2020.

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Elevate Summer Project 2020

6/30/2020 to 7/30/2020 $4,500.00

As a church, our goal is to send every member. In Summit Students, this comes through mobilizing our families on mission together. Through our local mission opportunities, domestic trips and international short-term trips. The culmination of this for many of our students comes through being a part of Elevate Summer Project. This 8 month discipleship program provides a venue for students to be discipled and trained with the end goal of participating in a month long missions experience overseas. We know that this is a tremendous investment with the most precious thing God has given you to steward, so we don't take that lightly. We desire to partner with you as your family explores if Elevate Summer Project would be a good fit for your student.

Estimated trip cost: $4,500.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due March 2, 2020.

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Middle East - Oct (5003)

Middle East 9/30/2020 to 10/9/2020 $2,250.00

We would love for you to join us as we visit Summit members that we sent out in July of 2019. We will be spending time encouraging them, seeing what life looks like for them in work, school, and friendships, and meet with local believers. We want to leave them refreshed to continue on in gospel ministry.

Estimated trip cost: $2,250.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due June 2, 2020.

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NYC - Oct 5060

New York City 10/4/2020 to 10/10/2020 $1,050.00

Gateway cities bring the unreached peoples from the other side of the globe to our backyard, making the world a smaller place. One prime example of this is New York City. These team members will be a part of sharing the gospel right in our backyard, reaching unreached people groups and growing in your faith. During the week they will be trained in how to share the gospel and then have opportunities to share the gospel with those who have never heard before! This team will return home with invaluable prayer and evangelism skills, while also knowing that the Lord used the to make an impact an impact for His Kingdom not just in NYC, but all around the world.

Estimated trip cost: $1,050.00
Applications and $150.00 deposit due June 6, 2020.

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International Short-Term Trip Leaders

12/1/2020 to 12/31/2020 $0.00

This is a group for our international short-term trip leaders to apply and then be placed into a 2020 International Short-Term trip.

Estimated trip cost: $0.00
Applications and $300.00 deposit due August 3, 2020.

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Central Asia

September 2020

This 2 week trip will be headed to one of the most remote parts of one of the most remote nations in the world. It's 99% Muslim, and life is rugged out there. Our goal will be to experience the reality of ministry in this context, sip tea with locals, and support our long-standing missionaries there.

East Africa

August 2020

Join us in spirit-directed outreach as we seek biblical, contextual churches planted among communities without the gospel in East Africa. Come alongside our Summit-sent field partners as they equip and empower the local church in global missions.

Southeast Asia

August 2020

Join us in serving and encouraging a young family on the field on an island in Southeast Asia. Pray with them, sip tea with their national friends, and watch as the Holy Spirit moves to bring the Kingdom here.

Europe

August 2020

Join us as we support our long-term field partners through their adventure & ecotourism business. Where we’re going is incredibly beautiful, but remains hostile to the gospel. Our prayer is that we would be able to open strategic doors for our Summit family’s business and for the gospel to go forward! This will be a time for intercessional prayer & worker encouragement; a time for us to grow in discipleship, listen to God and each other.

East Africa

September 2020

Our team will come alongside Summit members serving long-term in East Africa. We will serve & encourage the team there in hopes of building them up as we engage with their culture and ministry. We will go alongside our partners' sports consulting business, creating opportunities for connections through sport that lead to gospel conversations in people's homes and discipleship opportunities for our partners (over coffee and popcorn!)

Southeast Asia

December 2020

Come visit one of our Summit families in a large city in Southeast Asia. This will be an opportunity to work in one of the most diverse cities in the world. Join us as we encourage our brothers & sisters in this modern global city with great food!

East Africa

October 2020

Our team will be coming alongside Summit members serving long-term in East Africa. Trek with us through some remote terrain as we open doors for gospel conversation. We will spend time serving and encouraging the team there in hopes of building them up as we engage with their culture and ministry.

Central Asia

October 2020

Our team will have the privilege of visiting Summit church planters who have lived in Central Asia with their young family for 10 years! We will be spending time encouraging the team, seeing what life looks like for them in work, school, and friendships, and meet with local believers. God has been working in this place for many years, and you will get to see his work first-hand!

East Asia

October 2020

Join our church-planters in East Asia in a country with one of the greatest populations of lost and unreached people. As you see people on the subway or in a restaurant, you can assume that none of them have ever heard of Jesus. Your prayers and encouragement are vital to our Summit family as they carry out the Great Commission here!

Middle East

November 2020

Our team will be visiting Summit members who are serving in the Middle East. We will spend time encouraging and working with the family there in hopes of building them up as we engage with their culture and ministry. We will also spend time meeting locals, sharing meals, and helping with their local business.

Sweden

November 2020

Our team will be serving in Vasteras, sharing the good news of the gospel with university students. Sweden is a beautiful, vibrant country with a spiritual darkness that desperately needs the light that the gospel brings! We'll be serving, encouraging, and drinking coffee with our long-term Summit members, who've been living and working there since 2012. We will host Thanksgiving dinner and game nights as we seek to meet people hungry for the Gospel, connecting them to our long-term field workers, who can continue to build relationships with them and share the Gospel.

South Asia

November 2020

Our team will join in with local workers as they strive to plant healthy, reproducing churches among the greatest concentration of lostness on earth. We will go ready to learn from, and serve, a colourful and rich culture vastly different than our own!

Ecuador

November 2020

This is a family mission trip to Quito, Ecuador! We will be partnering with a local Baptist church in Quito to target an unreached area of the city through: kids clubs (vbs) evangelism, door to door love baskets, and family fun nights.

South Africa

December 2020

We will be experiencing the rich culture of Johannesburg, a city well known for its historical racial division and more recent reconciliation. We will be serving alongside missionaries who have served in Johannesburg for nearly 20 years. We will support our Summit families on the field through evangelism, prayer walks and children ministry as we work to be ambassadors of reconciliation for Christ, making an impact for the Gospel in the suburbs of Johannesburg.

West Africa

December 2020

Join us in West Africa as we continue to support local efforts to advance the Gospel through partnerships with local healthcare professionals, expanding/developing the current healthcare infrastructure, and simultaneously creating opportunities for church planting. In addition, we will focus on caring for the long term field workers sent out by Summit, a physican and nurse practitioner and their 4 kids who have lived in the region for 12+ years. This is a French speaking region, although fluency is not a requirement. Conditions may be austere at times. A willingness to learn, be flexible, and see the big picture are helpful. All medical specialties are encouraged to apply. For ease of travel and mobility, the team will be kept small. 

Southeast Asia

October 2020

This team has the wonderful opportunity to serve alongside our missionary friends serving in Southeast Asia, in a dark city with a vast amount of lostness. This trip will allow each team member the opportunity to push back darkness through proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our team will serve with and encourage local brothers and sisters in this city who are often overwhelmed with the burden of reaching the lost.