January 30, 2012
The Forum: January 2012
Posted by Michael
Last week at The Forum, we heard about some exciting things that will be going on at Summit over the next season of ministry. In case you missed it, here are the highlights:
- Sam Arocho was commissioned as the Waterford Campus Minister. The Waterford campus has experienced tremendous growth over the past two years. It has gone from a core startup team of 25 people to over 800 people this past weekend. But there are still more people in the Waterford area that need to know they matter to God. Sam is the perfect person to lead that team.
- Garry Abbott (who led the team that started the Waterford campus) will begin forming and leading a team that will start another Summit campus. This campus will be in North Orlando. Garry asked everyone to pray about joining that team. If you live in North Orlando, if you have friends in North Orlando, or if you’d like to play a role in getting this campus started, it may make sense for you to join the team. North Orlando will have their first service on April 1st at 9 a.m. at The Plaza, and will continue meeting there throughout the summer. In the fall, they will head up to north!
- We learned about the Second Stories initiative. Second Stories is all about increasing Summit’s capacity to reach, serve, and love people by creating space in our community. Our campuses our growing, and we never want to turn people away simply because of a lack of space. At the Herndon campus we will be adding a balcony (which will add over 300 more seats), increasing our children’s space, expanding the BCL Theater, and moving staff offices to the Fashion Village strip (by the Annex). At Waterford, we will be increasing our children’s space and expanding the BCL Theater. The motive behind this initiative is to reach more people with the message and love of Christ. This will require us all to be faithful, and over the coming weeks we’ll be walking through that process together.
If you’d like to learn more about any of these things, you can listen to the podcast of The Forum.
Isaac, John, and Andy also recorded a Second Stories Q&A session. You can listen to the Q&A podcast here.
