Summit Ministries

*We ought to make the moments notes Of happy, glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days a silent phrase Of music we are living. And so the theme should swell and grow As weeks and months pass o'er us, And rise...

With only four days remaining here at summit semester, you can feel the mood starting to change. The students are excited to get back home, to bring everything they have learned and discovered back home to their daily lives. But...

To keep up with tradition I will give the count down for the rest of the semester. There is exactly one week left. Over the past eleven weeks, we have done a lot (as previous blogs show). Considering everything, what...

I remember reading the blogs of last year's Summit Semester students when I was looking into applying for the program. The most memorable one (it may, in all actuality, be the only one I read. I don't really recall), said...

A lot has happened this past week. Along with learning from the culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, we have been learning from each other in different areas. From sledding on cookie sheets after the first major snowfall, to vigorous...

Wow, I hardly know where to start. We just had the busiest and craziest weekend yet (that's saying something for a weekend at Summit Semester). Trying to cram a play, a concert, countless art galleries, a visit to a bronze...

Today is another snowy afternoon here in this remote niche of the Colorado mountains. Imagine one of those thick, wet snows that sticks to every last twig and needle in the forest and makes the wood look like lace. That's...

You have been getting to know our students through their blog entries and photos on Flickr. Do you want to know more? Visit the Summit Semester Bio page to learn more about the staff and students of the 2008 Summit...

Well, we only got three weeks left here at Summit Semester (you've probably heard that exact same line since the first blog...but a different number). It truly is hard to believe that we were all strangers to each other two...

Last night we had an open forum with Dr. Bauman. Prior to this we were required to read a short article he wrote on how to take charge when questioning the college admission offices. During the forum the floor was...

I can hardly believe we only have one more month remaining of Summit Semester! I can remember way back when we still had eighty-four days to go! And now I don't even want to think about the short number of...