Every SCBaptist church can send their strongest student leaders with these qualifications:

• Current high school student
• Must have professed Christ as Savior and display strong Christian disciplines and character
• Must be a member or regular attender of an SCBaptist church
• Must be willing to be challenged to share their faith courageously in a public setting. Students will be trained and then deployed to start conversations at “Mission Carowinds” with other teens their age.

Registration opens September 1st for all students. Once spots are filled, a waiting list will be created. A $50 non-refundable deposit is due at registration.  Final payment is due December 22nd.   

Either option works!

Individuals are welcome to register themselves and handle payment for Summit.

Likewise, a church may choose to send multiple students to Summit and help provide toward the total cost of the event. If this is the case for you and your church, we encourage the Student Minister to handle registration and payment for each student in their group. 

*Student Ministers, please note that if you are signing up students from your church, you will need to have all of their information readily available upon registration. This includes names, emails, phone numbers, shirt sizes, and personal testimony information about salvation and baptism. 

A non-refundable $50 deposit per student is due at the time of registration.

If you have questions about how to proceed with registration, please reach out to Katie Bennett at katiebennett@scbaptist.org. 

Click on the link below to learn about the schedule for Summit.

2026 Summit Schedule

• Early Bird Registration: $199 (September 1 - September 30)
• Regular Registration: $225 (October 1 - November 30)
• Late Registration: $250 (December 1 - December 22)

Some churches choose to help their students attend Summit by offsetting a portion or all of their registration cost. If this is the case for your church, we encourage the Student Minister to register the students themselves, so that they can handle payments for their group.

If students from a church are signing up on their own and a church would like to help cover some or their costs, once all students have signed up, the Student Minister or leader may pay the registration costs via check (made payable to the South Carolina Baptist Convention) or with a credit card. 

If you have questions about registration and making payments, please contact Katie Bennett at katiebennett@scbaptist.org. 

The SCBaptist Missions Mobilization Team is hosting this event. Speakers and trainers will be hand selected from SCBaptist local churches, the North American Mission Board, and the International Mission Board. 

Students will be placed into “Cadres” led by college students in the Palmetto Collective.  

David Sons will be the speaker for Summit. David serves as the Lead Pastor at the First Baptist Church of North Augusta, South Carolina. A graduate of North Greenville University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, David has spent a good portion of his ministry life preaching to students, leaders, and collegiate ministries in local churches and college campuses across the southeast. With nearly twenty years of full-time vocational ministry in SCBaptist Churches, David considers it the call of his life to help equip the local church towards biblical faithfulness and fidelity. David and his wife, Allyson, have been married since 2011 and live in North Augusta with their four children.   

A portion of Summit will be an Evangelism Intensive Training. Students will be given the tools needed to be able to share their faith confidently with their peers. We are taking them to Carowinds to practice what they’ve learned. The goal is not the ride; the goal is the line. In a contained and safe environment like Carowinds, students, in small groups, will be charged with sharing their faith with as many people as possible.  

Your students will be exposed to the urgency of the Great Commission and the great need for missionaries and Kingdom leaders across our nation and the world. Field experts from NAMB and the IMB will expose your students to the multitude of opportunities that await them after high school.

Your students will be challenged and trained to take everything they learn back to your church for multiplied impact. Stand ready to give them opportunities to speak and lead your student ministry to reach your community.  

No. Summit is a drop-off event. Our staff and Palmetto Collective students will guide them the entire time they are with us. Student Pastors and parents are welcome to come and observe at any time, but we will not have the bed space available for you to stay overnight.

All leaders and staff, including Palmetto Collective students, have been screened with an updated background check and all have a clean history for your student’s safety. All SCBaptist child safety regulations will be in place.  

Adult leaders from SCBaptist will be present throughout the week including Charlie Swain, Jamie Buckley, Katie Bennett, Ken Owens, and other members of the Missions Mobilization Team. 

Students are expected to participate in the entire event. Transportation to and from Camp LaVida is the responsibility of the church or parents. Drop-off is between 3PM - 5PM on the 29th. Pick up is between 1PM-3PM on the 1st.

Transportation to Carowinds and back will be via charter buses from Holiday Tours.