Our family of churches are Elder-led. Elders provide general oversight; they teach, protect, pray for, equip, provide counsel, model godliness, and care for the discipleship of the church. They exercise church discipline when needed. They oversee finances, budgeting, and the church staff. When needed they oversee the selection of new Elders. 

The Directional Team of Elders represent our family of churches. The team is made up of each Lead Pastor and at least one Lay Elder from each church and the Founding Pastor. This team helps make decisions that affect all churches, while working in concert with church Elder teams.

Staff work inside their area of ministry at their local church under the authority of their Lead Pastor and Elders. While leading in their church, most staff also work within a collective to share best practices with those leading in the same ministry at other Summit Churches.

Collectives unite our churches by helping them function with the best ministry practices. Collectives are teams of staff that work within a common ministry area across churches. They are unified around the sharing of best practices that make our churches better together and are empowered with areas of liberty to make greater impact in their local context.

The Central Team focuses on support, sending, and leadership by creating processes, frameworks, and resources each church can utilize as well as strategies to reach our state, nation, and world. The Central Team is overseen by the Central Executive Pastors and provides Communications, Design, Technology, Production, Finance, Human Resources, Facilities, Global Engage, and National Engage for each church.