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From Issaquah to the nations
Jesus sends His church to make disciples of all nations. Summit Life exists because other churches gave generously to plant a church here. Now we get to do the same, partnering with faithful churches and ministries in our community, across the country, and around the world.
Our partners
Who we serve alongside
We focus our missions giving on partners we know well, so we can pray for them by name, give faithfully, and go serve alongside them when we can.
Verdad y Gracia Church & the Wayuu Mission
Bogotá, Colombia · Pastor Álvaro & Ariannys Rivera, with Pastor Daniel Serrano
Iglesia Cristiana Verdad y Gracia is a Reformed Baptist church in Bogotá. For more than eleven years the church has served among the Wayuu people, training pastors and church leaders, providing clean-water filtration and humanitarian aid, and distributing Bibles. The Wayuu Mission now partners with more than twenty churches across Colombia.
Our First Fruits giving is helping build the Wayuu Community Center, a home base for theological training, education, and gospel ministry among the Wayuu.
Visit Verdad y GraciaAlso through Verdad y Gracia
A two-year program training pastors, deacons, teachers, and worship leaders.
A new church plant in Funza–Mosquera, near Bogotá.
A monthly gathering encouraging about forty pastors from across Bogotá.
United States
Churches we support across the country
These are sister churches. Like Summit Life’s founding pastor, Will Forrest, Pastors Will Cole and Austin Mathis trained at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Florence, South Carolina, under Pastor Bill Curtis before planting their churches. We’re glad to keep serving the gospel together.
New Horizon Church
North Hills of Pittsburgh, PA · Pastor Will Cole
A Baptist church plant in Mars, Pennsylvania, with a vision to see a gospel-preaching church in every township of Pittsburgh’s North Hills. Our First Fruits giving has helped them complete a building renovation.
Grace Church
Harrison, Ohio (Greater Cincinnati) · Pastor Austin Mathis
Grace Church recently finished renovating a new space. Our giving helps them reach the neighborhood around their new location.
Around the world
Sending the gospel to the ends of the earth
International Mission Board
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
As a cooperating Southern Baptist church, we join churches across the country in supporting thousands of IMB missionaries serving among the nations.
Learn about the IMB →Pastor couples retreat
France
We help provide a retreat for pastors and their wives in France: a time of rest, encouragement, and refreshment for those who shepherd churches where evangelical believers are few.
Here at home
Loving our neighbors in Issaquah and across the Seattle area
Epic Life
North Seattle · Aurora Ave N
Epic Life is a church on Aurora Avenue that also serves its neighborhood through Pilgrim Coffeehouse. The coffee we brew on Sunday mornings comes from Pilgrim, so every cup helps support their ministry.
Visit Pilgrim Coffeehouse →Every new year
First Fruits Offering
Each year we begin the new year together by giving thanks to God with a special missions offering, the first fruits of our giving. It’s a reminder that God gets our first and God gets our best, whatever the coming year holds.
First Fruits supports the partners on this page, here at home, across the country, and around the world.
“Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce.”
Proverbs 3:9
Where First Fruits goes
The Wayuu Community Center and the Rescue Mission’s building renovation
New Horizon Church and Grace Church
The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and our partners in France
Get involved
Pray. Give. Go.
Pray
Pray for our partners by name, for faithful preaching, healthy churches, and open doors for the gospel. Have a prayer request of your own? We’d be glad to pray with you.
Request prayer →Give
Give to First Fruits each new year. Your regular giving also supports missionaries in North America and around the world through the Cooperative Program.
Give online →Go
When there’s an opportunity to serve alongside one of our partners on a trip, we’ll share it here and on Sundays.