Tag Archives: Gateway Church
Adapting adult services for kids
Posted on 03. Oct, 2010 by Kenny.
For the last 20 months, our church has hosted a Sunday evening service designed for Christ-followers called Deepen. Over time this service has just lost momentum and currently we’re exploring other opportunities to engage more people who want to take next-steps in deepening their relationship with God. One of the challenges to this situation is that we’ve stopped offering programs for elementary aged kids during many of the deepen services, mostly because there wasn’t enough support from those who attend. We felt that not offering an elementary program would be best for these services, especially if we could adapt components of the adult services for kids.
So, a few weeks ago we held an “All-Pray” service where the evening was dedicated to prayer.… Read the rest
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Leadership Weekend Review
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Kenny.
This weekend was Gateway’s annual Leadership Weekend. Every year it’s a Friday night and most of the day Saturday event where the core of the church comes to worship together, pray, be challenged and hear the vision for the upcoming year and engage in how God is leading us. This was my third such event at Gateway, and it was absolutely phenomenal. This year we laid out some pretty major challenges for the leaders of Gateway. The staff has been in an organizational restructuring for the last 6 months and the full plan of why we restructured and what the new structure is setting us up to do was revealed. It was met with excitement and zeal. The energy surrounding this weekend was absolutely contagious.… Read the rest
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Summer camp video
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by Kenny.
After this week I don’t plan to publish any more camp posts. My production director was on a post-camp vacation last week, so I just got the final day of camp video. It’s a great video that shows a snapshot of all the best parts of camp. It’s about 10 minutes long, so feel free to skim. 
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Dealing with Crisis
Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by Kenny.
Today was the last day of the series, Never Waste a Good Crisis. It was an incredible service, a great conclusion to a great series. The service led up to a key point… when the video below came on. Powerful! There were very few dry eyes around the auditorium. Nothing like the power of a story to drive a point home.
The link to the service wasn’t online when I wrote this post, so I’ll add the link when it’s up.… Read the rest
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Father’s Day @ Gateway
Posted on 22. Jun, 2010 by Kenny.
Sunday was Father’s Day and we were right in the middle of a series called, “Never Waste a Good Crisis.” It’s been a phenomenal series. This week one of the leaders from High School and College shared his story. It’s a powerful story for men to hear and it tied into our series so perfectly. If you want to see more, I attached the video of the entire service below. Enjoy!
Full service:
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Free Ugly Towel Sunday
Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Kenny.
Yesterday Gateway held it’s first baptism service of the year. What a great start to the year with 167 baptisms. Woo hoo! Going into this weekend, we had a little over 100 people registered, more than 30 of them being kids. Baptism Sunday’s are already a great day at Gateway. We understand that upwards of 30% of adults in our services are not yet Christ followers. Week after week, relevant messages challenge them to consider who God is, what he’s done for them and what a relationship with him would look like. We find that most people who come to faith at Gateway do so after wrestling with it for a while. Salvation isn’t always a split decision, sometimes it is a process.… Read the rest
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State of the Gate 2.0
Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
Every year my church has a “State of the Gate.” It’s really a gathering one evening of the week, usually at the beginning of the year where we share great stories from the previous year, share any exciting news and then cast vision for the coming year. This year we tried something new. Since we’ve recently launched our internet campus, we broadcast the State of the Gate over the interwebs. What a cool experience!
I still don’t know how many actually participated, but a pretty large group of people logged in with their facebook and twitter accounts and interacted with each other during the broadcast and asked questions during the Q & A. It was a totally unique environment. The people who watched live had a much more engaging experience than any State of the Gate in the past.… Read the rest
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Kidmin in Portables: Final Details
Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
I’ve written all of this to be a resource for those who are either in portable buildings or are heading in that direction. Mostly, I want to encourage you that moving to portables doesn’t have to suck. I highly encourage you to pass these pictures and content to your pastors or decision makers. We spent a little extra money than we had to, but be got a much bigger bang for our buck. There’s no way getting around it, portables are less than ideal. However, you don’t want parents or kids to feel like they’re getting a second-class experience. I highly encourage you to make a few minor upgrades and make your portable space a place where both kids and volunteers want to spend their Sundays.… Read the rest
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Kidmin in Portables: Interiors
Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
So we have two buildings which each have two rooms. Each room has a capacity for 30 children bringing our Backyard capacity to 120 children. On average, we probably have 85-95 kids in these four environments. They consist of:
- Beach Boulevard: Four year olds
- Amazon Avenue: Four year olds
- Treehouse Trail: Fives and Kindergarten
- City Circle: Fives and Kindergarten
As you probably saw in the first post, we had some ugliness to overcome. Nasty brown carpet with ugly brown wood panel walls. Thankfully the powers that be made the decision to spend just a little more and hang drywall over the wood paneling and put down some bright white tile flooring. The rooms went from dark and dreary to instant brightness.… Read the rest
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Kidmin in Portables: Exteriors
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
In truth, there are only one or two things I don’t like about our portables.
- They’re outside. When you have a nice building that’s all finished out, it’s just great to all be under one roof. With the portables being outside, it’s like having a section of your ministry that’s completely disconnected. We do have phones out there, but it’s just not as natural to visit those classrooms like it is with our other classrooms. Also when it’s cold or when it rains, the portables are kind of a bummer. Since it rarely rains and is only cold for a few weeks, it’s really not that big of a deal.
- The crushed granite pathway. Actually I have a love/hate relationship with the path.
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