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Nicaragua mission trip

Matthew McNutt — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:08:10 +0000

Well, we are wrapping up our trip to Nicaragua! You can read our updates on www.SummitDE.com, the student ministry blog. Here are a couple of our video updates; the first one was from our third day in Nicaragua, the second one is from our seventh day. Enjoy!

- Pastor Matthew

Maine Updates!

Matthew McNutt — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:34:36 +0000

Hey parents (or anyone interested!), if you want to get on the text message update list to get occasional updates blasted to your cell phone from the Maine mission team, just click the link below and fill out your information! This is different than our email prayer updates; these will be more along the lines of real time short status updates (for example, ‘we arrived safely in Maine’). There won’t be more than one a day. Don’t worry, the sign up screen is secure!

- Pastor Matthew

Middle School Ministry

Matthew McNutt — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:55:08 +0000

Sometimes being a youth pastor is the best thing in the world! The above is a note from four middle school girls to me during last February’s winter retreat. To give you some back story, I heard through the grapevine (other middle school girls) that these four were planning on spraying me with some water. I decided to do a preemptive strike, so when they were talking with me and asked what I would do if someone pranked me, I told them “I would probably do something like this …” and then I totally sprayed them all and ran away before they could get me. Well, a couple hours later they found me and managed to hit me with some water. Then they gave me the above note, which reads:

Matthew – we know that we already sprayed you with water but you got all 4 of us and we only got you. So to make it even we have to get you 3 more times. So watch out man! IT IS WAR!

From: Katie, Kelsey, Laura, Kayla

P.S. See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya! Ha Ha Ha. LOL!

P.P.S. If you want to get us we are all in cabin Keystone room 3.

Wow. I just about died. That has got to be my favorite note of all time – I still start laughing every time I read it!

And that is just another reason why middle school ministry is AWESOME.

Endless Night music video

Matthew McNutt — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:00:58 +0000

Here it is! The music video from our high school all night event, Endless Night (May 1-2, 2009)! Good times! Let me know what you think!

- Pastor Matthew

Student Ministry videos!

Matthew McNutt — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:11:37 +0000

If a picture is worth a thousand words … then how much is a video worth? I just thought I’d share some videos from a few of the events we’ve had since I came on staff last August!

This is the annual junior high winter retreat! We had a great group of kids out, lots of fun activities, games, contests and we did a series of Bible studies based on Old Testament characters! You can actually download the audio from the series on our podcast here.

One Incredible Night! Another middle school event, this was our annual all night event that happened last November!

This is the highlights video from last September’s fall retreat for our highschool and middle school students. I had a blast at the retreat – it was a great way to get to know our students and our volunteer leaders!

- Pastor Matthew