Gateway Pregnancy Centers 28th Annual
Stewardship Banquet
Thursday October 24, 2013
(7:00-9:00pm)
at
Our theme for the evening
All proceeds benefit the gospel ministry of Gateway
Pregnancy Center
(Irvington – Plainfield – Elizabeth)
You
will hear testimonies by men and women impacted by the ministry.
You
will be blessed with music to stir your soul and challenge your spirit:
How Great Is Our God?
Our Board Chairman, Rev. Michael Westbrook (pictured above with his wife Maria) will be the master of ceremonies for the evening. Check out the Greater Life Community Outreach Center's website at: http://greaterlifenewark.org/main/index.php
Director of Hope
National
Scroll down for
biography
click on Jodie's name above to see her Facebook Page
Each year we present an award to 'The Friend of Gateway' (we call it the Andy Andersen Memorial Award) The 2013 award goes to
and as a part of
we will honor all the pastors in attendance with a small gift and a time of recognition.
So, be sure to invite your pastor
Our
special music will be provided by the
The
banquet is FREE. We are asking that a
minimum donation of $25 be made to cover the meal. There will be an opportunity
given for a freewill offering and monthly giving.
Advanced reservations must be made.
Please return the
reservation form by October 21, 2013.
You may also register
on Facebook at:
For information: (973) 399-8378
log on to: www.gateway.org and checkout our BLOG
for further details and directions
To make reservations, please call us immediately
at 973-399-8378
or email dean@gateway.org
Banquet Location:
Grand Centurions
440 Madison Hill Road,
Clark NJ 07066
732-382-1664
http://www.thegrancenturions.com/index.php?id=7
Please scroll down for directions or click on this link
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The Gran Centurions can seat
up to
450 in their beautiful Garden Room
Open Seating
Reservations are available
by advance notice
only !!!
How To Make Reservations
(Please
have all reservations to us by
Monday,
October 21st.)
(1)
Call us at 973-399-8378
(2)
email us at dean@gateway.org
(3) Reserve your seats on Facebook:
Prayerfully consider giving at the banquet.
You will
be challenged to help Gateway meet our $50,000 Banquet challenge and
the need for $100,000 to meet obligations by December 31st.
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Yes,
I wish to make a significant difference at Banquet 2013!
_____ I plan to
attend and will bring ______others with me. Please list your guests
names and addresses on the reverse side of this form.
______ I cannot attend, but wish to give a special
stewardship gift of:
______$5,000
_____$2,000 ______$1,000
____$500 ______ $250
______ other ______ $20 per month
pledge _______ $50 per month
pledge
Name:
_____________________________________________________________________
Address:
___________________________________________________________________
City
________________________________State_____________Zip___________________
Telephone: (
) ____________________email:_______________________________
(973) 399-8378
960 Springfield Ave, Irvington, NJ 07111
Please pray as to how you will participate in
the freewill offering to be taken that evening.
Again, the banquet is FREE. We are asking that a minimum donation of $25 be made to cover the meal.
There will be an opportunity given for a freewill offering and monthly giving.
Since 1985,
Gateway Pregnancy Center and the former, Archway Pregnancy Center have helped
over 28, 510 women in a
crisis pregnancy, seeing 3,026 babies
known born and most importantly, over 2,383 trusting
Christ as Savior and Lord!
The
Gospel ministry of Gateway has had the opportunity to share Christ with
women who otherwise may never enter a church building.
Services
offered by the Gateway ministry include pregnancy testing,
boyfriend / husband counseling on responsibility, free infant clothes and
supplies, maternity clothes, baby furniture, post abortion counseling, church,
high school, college, radio and television speaking opportunities, internet
counseling and various contacts with the FBI and other parts of the judicial
system.
As a 501 c-3 non-profit, we receive no funds
from the government.
We are dependent
upon the Lord through Gods people.
Check out these videos:
Gateway Promotional video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9BxmN-bAeQ
You Tube: Banquet 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJiwWN6qrIg&feature=g-all-u
Animoto 30 second promo for Banquet 2010
http://animoto.com/play/uVhtKfGC2XMfuFcKWMDZAA
You Tube: Compassion in ministry Do You Feel The Need?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI8oPYWqpSs&feature=g-all-u
The Harder Truth Promo for Pastors by Rev. Dean Gavaris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_nK2shIdkk
Consider giving to Gateway
online:
Network for Good
https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/MakeDonation.aspx?ORGID2=223027500
We
hope to see you on October 24th!
440 Madison Hill Road, Clark, NJ 07066
Telephone: 732-382-1664
From the south: Garden St Pkwy to exit 135, stay straight to the traffic light and
make a right. At your second exit make a right. The hotel is on the
left.
From the north: Garden St Pkwy to exit 135, go straight to the second traffic
light and make a left. Go through the next light and take the second exit to
the right. The hotel will be on the
left (Valley Road).
Consider placing an ad in our 2013 Banquet Journal for your
church, your business, your prayer group, yourself or in honor or memory of a
loved one.. (see below)
The deadline for ads is Friday, October 18, 2013
Click on the downloadable materials
Additional information about our special
speaker
Jodie Rae Zicker Director of Hope National
Jodie is pictured here with her husband, Michael
Jodie, in her own words:
“I served as the
Executive Director of The Vine Pregnancy Center in Frazier Park, CA for 8
years from 2002-2010. I resigned at the beginning of 2011 to assist
my husband with our restoration company (His Way Creations) full-time until we
closed in at the end 2011.
They were very
difficult times but truly sanctifying.
The Dundas' asked me
at the end of 2010 if I would step in as director, but to their shock I
resigned completely. It was heartbreaking to walk away, but God honored
my heart's desire in January 2013. My husband told me that it was
"not never" just "not
now" and he meant it.
My husband,
Michael, served as the Board Chair of the crisis pregnancy center I
directed from 2003-2011. My mom took over my position from 2011-2013.
God brought so much healing to our family through our time serving. We
have been through so much, especially, in our early years in the late
'90s.
My abortion
was in 1992. I came to Christ in 1995. My husband and
I met in 1997 and we were married in 1998. Michael has gone
through so much with me during the healing time after I began
to publicly speak about my abortion in 2002.
God has brought
so much healing through the forgiveness found in Christ Jesus alone, and the
power of the Gospel. Hope National's, Focus on the Heart manual, truly
transformed my life. I am humbled by all that the Lord has done
and pray to serve Him faithfully as the Director.
We will pray faithfully for
the work the Lord has planned. We are honored to join your ministry and
further the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we seek to bring Christ into the choice
for life! Blessings, Jodie”
Jodie Zicker is a graduate of:
• The University
of New Mexico Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology
Listen 
on the internet
2009 Calvary Chapel Frazier Park , California Women's Conference,
"Leaning On The Everlasting Arms"
Hope National is a nationwide association of
pregnancy centers whose counseling approach is anchored in Biblical method and
content. Hope National is the first and only national organization to
offer a Biblical counseling manual to the prolife field.
http://www.hopenational.net
Gateway
Pregnancy Center has been privileged to use the
excellent training manual (Focus on the Heart) written by Rev.
Jim Dundas of Hope National.
Jim is a graduate of Northeastern Bible College, as is
Gateway’s director, Rev. Dean Gavaris.
Endorsements
One of the original founders of the
pregnancy center, prolife movement
Rev. Curt Young endorses Hope
National's 'Focus on the Heart' manual.
Curt Young, senior pastor of the Church of the Atonement, was one of the
original founders of the pro-life, pregnancy center movement in America.
For 10 years he was executive director of the Christian Action Council (later to become known as Care Net). He wrote, The Least of These, one of the original
books on abortion and the need for Christians to be involved in pregnancy
centers. He writes this about Focus on the Heart:
"Focus on the Heart is an exceptional manual for
centers that desire to equip volunteers with a biblical foundation as well as
the skills for Christ-centered counseling...
The premise behind this manual is that pregnancy resource centers are
outreach ministries, mission efforts within our own cultures with the primary
task of demonstrating the love of Christ and testifying of the truth of the
Gospel. The two go hand in hand.
To this end medical care, social
services and other components of active care are often added over time to great
effect, but the centers remain Christ-centered ministries in their mission and
practice.
The assumption behind the effort to produce this manual has been that the
pregnancy resource center is a place where Christians should never be inhibited
from sharing Christ, where they feel every encouragement always and have all
the support necessary in everything to testify of the goodness of the Redeemer
and invite repentance and faith toward him.
Honestly, should we accept a
definition of success that does not include this?
At the end of the day, the most important activity in a pregnancy
center is takes place in the counseling room as the volunteer counselor and
client speak with each other.
If there is a point where the Gospel
belongs and the volunteer should have the very best support possible, it is
there.
This manual serves these ends.
Focus on the Heart is well worth the time and effort to
study it and learn the remarkable insights it contains...Read it, and you will
see it is the product of deep Evangelical faith, rich with insight and full of
practical wisdom that comes from decades of success in leading multiple
pregnancy centers in different regions of the U.S. I commend it to you."
Dr. R.C. Sproul, Ligonier Ministries,
FL.
"it looks powerful...I pray God will use it in the battle for the
lives of the unborn.."
Dr. D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge
Ministries, FL.
"This form of Biblical counseling, I believe, is of extreme
importance in this time when unwanted pregnancies and abortion propaganda are
such a direct threat to women of teen-age and above.
The spiritual solutions
which your manual supplies are as important as the physical attention, if not
more so. I hope your manual will receive the wide dissemination and acceptance
it deserves."
Further information
about Hope National
Hope National - “Bringing
Christ into the Choice for Life”
Our mission is to
provide training materials, information and education on how to "Bring
Christ back into the Choice for Life"
Our Vision
Our vision is that
pregnancy center ministries would come to a full appreciation of the centrality
of God, the need to focus on Christ and to be dependent on the Holy Spirit in
obedience to His Word.
Centers must
understand that abortion is first and foremost a spiritual issue, the
destruction of the image of God in the womb of the mother, and an issue of the
heart in which the Gospel of Christ presented through Biblical counseling and
Christian love is the ultimate answer.
Our Objective
Our objective is to
provide training, materials, support, and fellowship so that pregnancy
counseling centers might operate in accordance with the teaching of Scripture.
We believe that the
Bible is sufficient for addressing the concerns of life, particularly those
critical decisions related to the abortion issue.
About the Manual Authors
Pastor Jim Dundas has a BA in Biblical Literature from
Northeastern Bible College and his Master's Degree in Religion with a
Theological emphasis from Westminster Theological Seminary.
He has further
graduate education in Counseling/Psychology from Lehigh University in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks,
California.
Jim was ordained in 1986 by the
Evangelical Free church and served as an active duty Navy Chaplain for six
years, three of which he specialized in Pastoral Counseling in the family
counseling center.
He is presently a Navy Reserve
Chaplain. Jim has been a director of a pregnancy center, a board member and
board chairman of two pregnancy centers. He and his wife Pat are co-founders of
the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates(NIFLA).
Gateway Pregnancy Center
(973) 399-8378
Three locations
60 Springfield
Avenue, Irvington, NJ 07111
65 Jefferson
Avenue, Elizabeth, NJ 07208
705 Park Avenue,
Plainfield, NJ 07060
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