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The best of Gateway
Posted on 23. May, 2012 by Kenny.
I celebrated my 4 year anniversary at Gateway a few weeks ago. More than ever before, I’m so grateful to be at this church. I’ve been at three churches since being in ministry and usually by year four, things were changing and I found myself looking for a new opportunity. Gateway is different thought. I’m at year four and I’m looking forward to the next 10 years here. I love my church!
Last Sunday Gateway started a new series called, “How Do You Know?” I think that this series represents some of what makes Gateway so amazing! It’s a creative series asking the questions that most people really struggle with. Questions like:
How do you know the Bible isn’t just propaganda?
How do you know God cares?
How do you know that Jesus is the only way?
How do you know you’re right with God?
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Four years and counting
Posted on 02. May, 2012 by Kenny.
Yesterday I celebrated my fourth year of coming on staff at Gateway Church in Austin, TX. I vividly remember driving from the Orange Conference in Atlanta with my little family and my car fully packed halfway across the country. Not only was excited about moving to a new city and taking on a new job that was fresh and exciting, but I was amazed how God seemingly directed events on a major scale to move me into a job that was exactly what I needed and exactly the right time. 12 months earlier, I’m not sure how I would have felt about this kind of role, but as God had been shaping my heart for a different strategy for ministry in recent months, God provided an opportunity to do what he was preparing me for. I have a pretty cool story of how God called me to each church/ministry I’ve been a part of and Gateway was no exception. I know that God called me to this church.
The past four years have been very rewarding, but not without challenges.
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Gateway Church: Easter – Your Great Story
Posted on 08. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
I just have to write about why I love my church so much.
There’s something amazing when you get to be on staff at a church that you’d certainly attend if you weren’t ministry. I’m about to celebrate my 4th year at Gateway and I’m so proud to be at this church.
Two of Gateway’s core values is to be a church for those who are far from God and to place a high value stories. Both of those values were carried out at our Easter services this year.
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Does your church have a unified voice?
Posted on 02. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
I’m about to celebrate 4 years of serving at Gateway Church and let me tell you, I’m so thankful. It’s been a wonderful journey so far and I’m looking forward to many more years ahead of me. One of the things I love the most is how strategic Gateway is about reaching a specific demographic. Jim Wideman had done some consulting for Gateway years ago and while interviewing, he told me that Gateway was one of the very few churches he’d worked with that very closely reflected the culture they were trying to reach.
One of the ways that Gateway does this is training leadership in the “Voice of Gateway.” Just a few weeks ago we sat through a 30 minute refresher in an all-staff meeting.
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Easter Services @ Gateway
Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by Kenny.
I’m very excited about our services this weekend. We’re having two Good Friday services and seven Easter Services. Here’s the promo for the Easter services. I love my church.
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Baptisms at Gateway
Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by Kenny.
This week I’ve been writing a lot about baptism. We had some great stories from last week and we’re moving into new territory for baptism in the future. Here’s a powerful video we showed on Sunday that gives a glimpse of what Baptism looks like at Gateway. Beautiful!
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Christmas Eve at Gateway
Posted on 05. Dec, 2010 by Kenny.
I’m pretty excited about Christmas at Gateway this year. For a church, we’re doing something a little different than we’ve done before. Austin is a pretty unique town as in a significant portion of the town are singles, which mean lots of people going home for Christmas. Although we’ve done four or five Christmas Eve services in the past, I’d never describe our attendance as “stagering.” I think the five services provided convenient times for everyone to come and most people who came seemed to be those who call Gateway home.
This year is totally different. This year the Christmas Eve services are very community focused with a target to connect with families. It’s a whimsical production that the whole family is going to love including dance, music, people flying through the air and even a little bit of comedy.… Read the rest
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Child Dedication nuts and bolts (File management)
Posted on 18. Nov, 2010 by Kenny.
This week I’ve been writing out every detail of our Child Dedication process. This post is my last entry in this series, and probably one that’s just a little shorter. 
With the system and process that we have in place, it’s very important that we keep all the files nice and tidy so that when a class or dedication comes up, everything is easily accessible. I thought I’d give you a sneak peak into how we store all the files pertinent to our process. For the past two years, I’ve kept these files neat and orderly, but not in a convenient place for anyone but me. Yeah, they’ve been sitting on my desktop. If I’m being totally honest, the fact that these are sitting on my desktop is what inspired this entire series.… Read the rest
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Child Dedication nuts and bolts (Information management)
Posted on 17. Nov, 2010 by Kenny.
This week I’ve been writing a series of nuts and bolts posts about how we do Child Dedications here at Gateway. I love establishing processes for things that are done over and over so that excellence happens ever time and so that things get easier every time they are done. Yesterday I wrote about the registration process and today I want to explain how we manage the data so that multiple people can know exactly what is going on and who is involved.
As I described in my blog post yesterday, we have a two part registration. One is for the Prep for Child Dedication Class and the other is for the actual dedication. The first registration is a Google form focused on getting information about the parents, family and situation where the second is a Fellowship One registration focused on getting information about the children being dedicated.… Read the rest
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Child Dedication nuts and bolts (Registration process)
Posted on 16. Nov, 2010 by Kenny.
As much as possible, I try to automate as much of our processes as possible. I’ve gone back and forth on several methods but have finally arrived on what I feel is a pretty effective model for Child Dedication that is simple and efficient.
We used to be overwhelmed by questions about child dedication or child baptism which prompted me to put every bit of information a parent might need to know about what we believe and do on our website. Click here to visit our dedication page. Currently it isn’t very pretty, but it’s functional. I’ve trained our receptionists, admins or anyone else who might get emails and phone calls about dedication to direct people to the dedication page on our website.… Read the rest
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