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Mpact Youth Ministry: About Us

About Us | Our Schedule | Our Mission | Our Commitments and Values

About Us

Summitview Community Church is organized by Seasons of Life; Families with Teens is one of those Seasons. Mpact is the youth dimension of this Season of Life.

Mpact is a parent-led, parent-connected youth group in Summitview. Our focus is to support families, support parents and engage youth with a goal of building followers of Jesus Christ.

Mpact is overseen by a parent-led team (MALT), and is led by a youth leadership team (SALT) as well as a pastor and young adult mentors involved with Mpact.

Our Schedule

Our schedule consists of a monthly rotation of 3 Wednesday night meetings and a service project.

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Our Mission

The Mission of Summitview’s Teen Family Season of Life is to produce:

Parents who are fulfilling the Great Commission by discipling their teens so that these teens have a heart that loves God before self or the world, a character that is mature and godly, and an intellectually solid Biblical foundation for their faith; to the result that these teens live and grow as fruitful disciples of Jesus Christ when they leave home.

For those parents who are also married, marriages that continue to mature and grow such that a foundation is laid for a united, fulfilling and fruitful relationship in the season of life that follows parenting.

Youth that experience “lion and bear” milestones in their faith through uniting together with parents and peers in Great Commission purposed events, activities, goals and dreams.

A spiritual community that supports every individual in this stage of life - whether they are a teen or adult, whether part of a single parent, blended, or traditional family – so that they can experience these four goals, through teaching, fellowship, service and seeking God together.

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Our Commitments and Values

The goal of our Mpact Youth ministry is to create a community of young believers who experience true Christian fellowship with one another. In other words, people who truly see and relate to one another as brothers and sisters in Christ, working, praying and being together to grow in Christ themselves and to reveal Christ to others.

At Mpact, God always gets to have it His way.

This goal is built on one simple foundation - The first purpose of Mpact is to please God, not ourselves. This standard is the first measure of all we decide and do.

• Php 2:13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
• Heb 13:20 May the God of peace… equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

By creating a community committed to pleasing God we also create a community that brings love and respect to everyone it touches. Such a community requires a culture of mutual awareness and respect expressed in what we say and what we do. It is out of a desire to be this kind of community that we set forth and aspire to these Christian values.

1. God loves everyone and so will we.
2. We come to Mpact to make it better.
3. We build, not destroy, with the power of our words.
4. When we think something is wrong, we get help to make it right.
5. I do what I need to do to have a right heart with everyone in Mpact.
6. We are growing into a manhood and womanhood that pleases the God who made them.
7. Friends and guests with freedom and grace.

What these mean…

God loves everyone equally and so will we.

God made every person, God loves every person, and every person is of equal value in His eyes. Therefore, we will recognize and acknowledge this equal value in each person who comes to Mpact. We will not create or be part of cliques that exclude others. As Christians, we will believe God has made us one family and believe each of us is a God-created part of that family.

• 1Co 12:18 But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be… so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
• Ro 12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.
• 1Ti 5:21 I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of favoritism.

We come to Mpact to make it better.

God has entrusted responsibility for Mpact activities and direction to certain pastors, parents and student leaders. Therefore, we will commit to wholehearted involvement in whatever Mpact events we attend and wholehearted respect to those who are responsible.

• Heb 13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you.
• Pr 18:1 He who separates himself seeks his own desire, He quarrels against all sound wisdom. (NAS)
• 1Sa 14:7 "Do all that you have in mind," his armor-bearer said. "Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul."

We build, don't destroy, with our words.

One of the most powerful impacts we have on others comes through our words. Therefore, we will speak to affirm others, encourage others, and spur one another on to do good things. We will not talk in ways that are disrespectful, crude, divisive, or critical of others.

• Eph 4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
• Heb 10:24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
• Jas 1:26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
• Eph 4:25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
• Pr 12:18 Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

When we think something is wrong, we get help in making it right.

What happens at Mpact should be pleasing to God. Therefore, if we observe something happening that we believe is not pleasing to God we will inform a leader or humbly and clearly speak to those people who are involved in what should change. However, we will not engage in arguing or outbursts of anger. We will not gossip by speaking to anyone who is not part of the problem or responsible to be part of the solution. We will not have a critical or judgmental heart toward others. We will trust our leaders for the appropriate solution.

• Lev 19:17 "Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt."
• Jas 5:20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins
• Mt 7:1-3 " Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"
• 2Co 12:20 For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
• Pr 18:8; 16:28b The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts. … a gossip separates close friends.
• Heb 13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account.

I do what I need to do to have a right heart with everyone in Mpact.

Conflict is a normal part of any group of people who are working together closely, so it will be normal for conflict, hurt feelings and misunderstandings to occur with each other in Mpact. Recognizing this, we commit to pursue reconciliation with one another, believing that honesty, repentance and forgiveness in Christ can overcome any dividing sin or hurt.

• Eph 4:2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
• Col 3:13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
• Lu 17:3 So watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.
• 1Pe 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
• 1Co 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails.

We are growing into a manhood and womanhood that pleases the God who made them.

We understand and celebrate the fact that the Bible calls us as young men and women to relate to one another as brothers and sisters with absolute purity. Therefore, we will speak, act and live in a way that is respectful of who God has made us to be as men and women. As growing adults we will be open to the input of our parents and leaders in what this means in our day to day lives. We recognize the purpose and importance of the respectful boundaries of modest dress described in the Bible. We commit ourselves in our words and actions to protect the moral and relational purity in our group. We gratefully acknowledge that our hearts, minds and bodies are given to us to serve and glorify God. We also know that God may have a future spouse and with that spouse a family to raise together. Therefore we want to honor and protect God's future plan for our own lives, as well as the plan He has for our brothers and sisters in Mpact.

• 1Ti 5:1-2 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
• Eph 4:17-24; 5:3-10 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. 20 You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. 21 Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
• Eph 5:3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. 4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place…
• 1Ti 2:9-10 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, 10 but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.
• 1Co 6:18-20 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

Friends and guests with freedom and grace.

Because God is always working to reach new people, we will welcome new people and reach out to make them feel accepted and included. We also recognize that the commitments and values described here will not be known or understood by many new attenders. We will love and accept them, trusting that as they see the community God has created among us they will also want to live the values that make Mpact great.

• Mt 11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, "Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners."
• 1Co 5:9 I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-- 10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. 12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
• Mt 22:39 'Love your neighbor as yourself.

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