Helping You Know God & Discover Your Purpose

At Summit First Assembly in Holts Summit, Pastor Richard Sullivan and our church family are here to walk with you—helping you know God personally, find freedom from the past, discover your God-given purpose, and make a lasting difference.

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OUR PASTOR

Pastor Richard Sullivan

For over a decade, Pastor Richard Sullivan has led Summit First Assembly with passion and heart. Alongside his wife Kellie, he invests deeply in families and the Holts Summit community—helping people experience authentic relationships, hope, and spiritual growth.

Our desire is to help people know God, find freedom, discover purpose, and make a difference.

Our Mission

For over a decade, Pastor Richard Sullivan has led Summit First Assembly with passion and heart. Alongside his wife Kellie, he invests deeply in families and the Holts Summit community—helping people experience authentic relationships, hope, and spiritual growth.

Know God
through worship, prayer, and the Word

Find Freedom
from the past and live in hope

Discover Purpose
as God designed

Make a Difference
in their family, church, and community

Our Core Beliefs

Summit First Assembly is part of the Assemblies of God fellowship. Our beliefs align with the Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths:

The Scriptures Inspired

The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct.

  • 2 Timothy 3:15-17
  • 1 Thessalonians 2:13
  • 2 Peter 1:21
The One True God

The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent “I AM,” the Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of mankind. He has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

  • Deuteronomy 6:4
  • Isaiah 43:10,11
  • Matthew 28:19
  • Luke 3:22
The Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ

The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. The Scriptures declare:

His virgin birth

  • Matthew 1:23
  • Luke 1:31
  • Luke 1:35

His sinless life

  • Hebrews 7:26
  • 1 Peter 2:22

His miracles

  • Acts 2:22
  • Acts 10:38

His substitutionary work on the cross

  • 1 Corinthians 15:3
  • 2 Corinthians 5:21

His bodily resurrection from the dead

  • Matthew 28:6
  • Luke 24:39
  • 1 Corinthians 15:4

His exaltation to the right hand of God

  • Acts 1:9
  • Acts 1:11
  • Acts 2:33
  • Philippians 2:9-11
  • Hebrews 1:3
The Fall of Man

Man was created good and upright; for God said, “Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness.” However, man by voluntary transgression fell and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God.

  • Genesis 1:26,27
  • Genesis 2:17
  • Genesis 3:6
  • Romans 5:12-19
The Salvation of Man

Man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God.

Conditions to Salvation

Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life.

  • Luke 24:47
  • John 3:3 
  • Romans 10:13-15
  • Ephesians 2:8
  • Titus 2:11
  • Titus 3:5-7

The Evidences of Salvation

The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit.

  • Romans 8:16

The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness.

  • Ephesians 4:24
  • Titus 2:12