Praise God for a great Missions Month!

God blessed us richly in February with four wonderful missionary visits. This past Sunday it was our pleasure to have Beau and Valerie Moore, Missionaries to Portugal in our services. They displayed a great burden for the people of Portugal and a willingness to follow God's call on their lives. Valerie sang and played piano for us and did a great job. Thanks!

I thought we had our sound issues addressed but we have another blank recording from last Sunday. We will get to the bottom of it and have our sermons posted as soon as possible!

The Napper Family to Burkina Faso!

We had a wonderful Sunday (February 15) with the Napper family, Missionaries to Burkina Faso, Africa. They conveyed the incredible spiritual and physical needs of the people of Africa and their vision to bring them the answer to those needs!

Pray for the Napper family as they continue their deputation ministry on the way to the field!

In other news... We had problems with our recording on Sunday and will not be able to post our sermons from this week.

Bob Hines - iMap Ministries

We had a wonderful Sunday with Bob Hines of iMap ministries! It is amazing to see what God is doing through the efforts of iMap. Take a look at http://www.i-map.org to see for yourself!

We had a little audio difficulty with Bro. Hines' sermon but it was so good that I posted it on our church website anyway. The audio is a little muffled but well worth a listen!

Missions Month Begins!

We began our annual Missions Month on Sunday with Ernie and Hilda Harman, Missionaries to Mexico. Bro. Harman presented a powerful message on our need to love God fully as we attempt to reach out to the World for Him! You can hear his message on our sermon page! http://gateway-baptist.org/listen.html

We are excited to hear from Bob Hines with iMap ministries http://i-map.org/ next week!

Sorry for the down time!

I had some health problems that landed me in the hospital for a few days and in bed for a week or so. I will be moving slower for a while and appreciate your patience!

I was also informed that two of our sermons (Better beginnings and Going Gray) did not upload correctly and had no audio. I will restore them and upload last Sunday's sermons soon!

Christmas Rush!

It has been a few weeks since my last post. The Christmas season is always a bit busy and this year was no exception! The Christmas party went wonderfully, as did our Christmas Eve Candlelight services. We are looking forward to having a great time ringing in the New Year on the 31st. We will be having an evening service at 7 PM and then move over to the fellowship hall for food and fun until midnight!

Our cameraman has been on vacation (and I didn't appoint a replacement) so our sermons from December 21st will not be posted. I am editing the sermon from December 28th as I type this and it will be posted on our sermon page within the hour. http://gateway-baptist.org/listen.html

We are looking forward to a wonderful 2009. Our annual Missions Month will start on February 1st with Ernie Harman, Missionary to Mexico in all services! Bob Hines from I-Map ministries, Mike Napper, Missionary to Burkina Faso and Beau Moore, Missionary to Portugal will also be with us on the following Sundays!

Many Blessings!

We had a wonderful time at our annual Thanksgiving dinner. I want to personally thank all those who worked so hard to provide a great meal! A special thanks goes to all who invited their friends and families to share in this time of thanksgiving to all God has given to us!

We are now looking forward to the Christmas season starting with our Church Christmas party on Saturday, December 13th at Peppers! Hope to see you there!