Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Eve Gang!

I hope you have your costume ready for tomorrow or you’re little ones costume ready for tomorrow or you’re at the very least enjoying some Halloween candy! Candy corn are a weakness of mine I’m afraid! 

Thank you so much for your prayers and support friends. They have been felt in a mighty mighty way! 

The Fall Festival went tremendously well. Due to yucky cold wet weather we were moved inside, but that didn’t stop the party! The Lord blessed us with 250 people coming and enjoying a bounce house, painting pumpkins, and free food. We had so many good conversations with people in the neighborhood, and had a great time as a group serving together! (Thanks to Mark Madere for the photos!)

The Preview Service also went tremendously well! The Lord blessed us with 61 people at our first preview service! We literally had no clue what to expect, but we could not be more thrilled. The worship team did a great job, the kiddos in nursery and kids church had a blast, and while I may be a bit bias Tony knocked it out of the park.

Now we are human, and there are a few kinks to work out still such as lighting on certain parts of the stage, more signage etc. But the things that matter went well! 

Tomorrow night will be Halloween and if it’s like last year we will have a consistent line of kiddos out the door. Please pray that we will have great conversations with people about Christ and coming to the church.

Our next preview service will be November 23^rd. Please pray for the word to continue through the neighborhood about the church. We had 14 people from the neighborhood not connected with a church at our first preview service, and we would love to see this number grow!

Y’all are awesome! Thanks for your support whether it be prayer or financial. Please feel free to message me if you would like to be added to our prayer updates or learn more about supporting Gateway Church Old Brooklyn financially.

Happy Halloween folks!

It's Happening!

Ok I’ve got to get back on the blogging bandwagon. Life has been so busy, and I have just simply fallen off the wagon. But don’t worry, I’m jumping back on!

I promise I’ll start posting at least every other week….might not be too lengthy….but it will at least be something!

Exciting happenings since my last post:

I turned 26 wooty woot! Now I’m over half way to 50, right?

 

Tony and I celebrated 3 years of marriage! Crazy how it feels just like yesterday that we tied knot, but yet you can’t really remember what life was like prior to your spouse being in it!

 

Our Wednesday Night Community Group has grown to 20-25 people! Praise the Lord, He is gathering His people to His Word and Fellowship with one another.

Exciting things that are coming…..and coming quickly!

Tomorrow Saturday October 18^th 2-4pm we will be hosting a Free Fall Festival at our local Rec Center. It will be a great time with pumpkin painting, bounce houses, and free food!

The community is excited for this event! In fact, local stores have donated hot dogs, buns, pumpkins, paint, brushes, and hay bales all for the cause! How Cool!

Please pray for people to come! We want to let everyone in the neighborhood know about our upcoming church services and start having gospel conversations with them before they even come in the church door!

Please pray for us to have enough helpers. We had over 400 people come to one of our block parties this summer. So please pray we have enough help to man all the booths and engage the people in conversation.

Sunday October 26^th is our first Preview Service! Ah! How did it sneak up on us SO quickly!

 

The Lord is faithful in so many ways. But especially blessing us in the last few weeks with a Children’s Minister, Hannah Krabill, and a temporary (for now;)) Worship Leader, Jordan Neimetz and his wife Leah Neimetz. These three individuals are so gifted, and we are SO excited to have their help.

Please commit to think and pray for us Sunday October 26^th from 5-6:30pm during our first preview service. The enemy does not want planting a church in Old Brooklyn to be an easy task. But we serve the Master who is greater than the enemy!

We will have three preview services this year (they are trail runs for us that we still invite the community to.) The services will be October 26^th, November 24^th, and December 11^th.

Our launch Sunday will be Sunday January 18^th, and we will start meeting weekly at that point.

Please pray for us to lean in to God’s strength and not our own! These are not tasks we can accomplish by our own might!

Thanks for your support!