Summit Street Church

Who We Are

Real faith. Real life. Real people.
We are Summit Street Church: a Jesus-centered, others-focused neighborhood church located in Beatrice, Nebraska.
We believe the Way of Jesus is best discovered in the rhythms of our actual lives: at the kitchen table, on the job, in local neighborhoods. Therefore, we live to embody the Way of Jesus in every context and in whatever life may bring. And that's because discipleship happens in real life, in real time.

While affiliated with the Western District Conference of the Mennonite Church USA, our faith community is diverse in age, in experience, and in denominational background. We often say that we are "Mennonite, but so much more." Meaning, we are many things with a common concern for centering faith in the Ways of Jesus. We live a peaceful witness, create spaces of engagement, empower people in their faith and understand transformation through community. We disavow individualistic and consumeristic understandings of church as well as nationalistic religion and affirm God's Kingdom above all. Jesus is the "Big Story," the prism through which we understand God's redemptive narrative communicated in scripture.

Our faith community would be defined as collaborative, permeable and warm; also as child and family-centric. Meaning, we are transformed through conversation, work to dull the lines between "us and them," and practice church in ways that are more laid back, more collaborative and more conducive to the entire family.

More than anything, we live to follow the Ways of Jesus in all things, offering others the opportunity to see and experience what true belonging means.