Christmas Eve Service & New Year Changes

Our traditional Candlelight Christmas Eve service will be Thursday, December 24 from 6pm-7pm.  Please join our Gateway staff for a reading of the Scripture and singing of familiar carols.  Pastor Mark will have a time with the children and a brief message. We will be collecting an offering for Luis Palau' ministries.  This is a family friendly even and everyone is welcome.  For more information, email info@gatewaychurchonline.com or call the church office at (619) 440-1136. 

New Changes for the New Year!

Here is what you need to know:

1.  Begins Sunday, January 10, with Pastor Sam Williams’ series: “2010 The Year of Living Gracefully”

 [Pastor Mark will still do most of the preaching during the year; however, the first sermon series of the year will be by Pastor Sam.]

2.  8:30 AM  Traditional / Blended Service led by Don Howell

3. 10:15 AM Contemporary Service led by Reggie Seutia & Lori Powell

4. Sunday School for children is offered at 8:30 and 10:15 

Click here to see a map of the changes. 

            There are many varieties of gifts, yet one Lord is over all.  That’s what Paul said to the churches in Corinth, Ephesus, and Colossae, and God says the same to us today.  We are a chruch teeming with teenagers, and they will grab the spotlight January 3^rd for YOUTH SUNDAY.  Come and support our teens.  We are also a church chucked full of children and regularly share the gift God has given to them.  The same is true for adults.  We have many that love Christian contemporary.  Others prefer a more blended style of worship.  These musical  preferences are not going to change, so as the Bible says, we have become all things to all that by all means we might win all we can.  That is the bottom line, the top line and the middle line of what  we have been doing.   So here is what you can do:

            #1.  Reach out!

                        80% of all that come do so because someone brings them along.  Keep reaching out to those that need a church home, not those already connected in their church, but those that are looking for a place to be blessed and to be a blessing. 

            #2.     Show deference (i.e. give people a break).

                        Let’s try to be as gracious to others as we can.

            #3.     Park further away

                        Let others have the closest slots.  I think it would also be nice if all the the spaces in front of Golden Share, just south of our doors, would be a family friendly lot, so children could pile out close and safe to our entrance. 

            #4.  Take the high road.

                    There is always a choice, you know.  Which road to take.  Don’t take the one that goes away, take the road that leads closer to the core of the service, fellowship and a church God loves and has so richly blessed with our God given talent and wonderful spirit.