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How long until Gateway's 2017 Banquet?

Gateway Pregnancy Centers 32nd. 

Annual Stewardship Dinner

Thursday October 26, 2017

(7:00-9:00pm)  at

Calvary Tabernacle, Cranford, NJ

Our special guest! 

       

 Gloria Gaynor

 (appearance dependent upon tour schedule)

Gloria blessed Gateway with her ministry in 2008. 

Check out the video here!

We are so grateful to once again have her with us.

Here is a brief bio from a CBN interview.


Updated version of I Will Survive:
“Only the Lord could give me strength not to fall apart
I will survive; He gave me life; I stand beside the
Crucified One; I can go on; I will be strong; For my
strength to live is not my own; I will survive!”

All proceeds benefit the non - profit gospel ministry of Gateway Pregnancy Center
               
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!
                                                         

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.

Each year we present an award to 'The Friend of Gateway'  (we call it the Andy Andersen Memorial Award) 

                                                                             

The 2017 award goes to... 

(To be announced on October 26th. at the dinner)
               

The banquet is $10.00 per person (adults only) 


There will be an opportunity given for a freewill offering and monthly giving.

Advanced reservations must be made.

Please return payment and the reservation
form to Gateway at P.O. Box Box 1893, Union, NJ 07083

For information: (973) 399-8378 log on to:  www.gateway.org and checkout our BLOG for further details and directions. 

Call us at 973-399-8378 or email dean@gateway.org 

for further details.

Banquet Location:
 

Harvest Training Center

Calvary Tabernacle

69 Myrtle Street

Cranford, NJ 07016

 

Please scroll down for directions or click here

Gateway is one of the many home missions

Calvary Tabernacle, Cranford.

Reservations are available by advance notice only !!!

                                                                                      

How To Make Reservations   

Please return the form below with your check to:

Gateway Pregnancy Center

P.O. Box 1793,

Union, NJ  07083

Prayerfully consider giving at the banquet. You will be challenged to help Gateway meet our budget and project success for 2018

Clip and return with your reservation:

Yes, I wish to make a significant difference at Banquet 2017
_____   I  / we plan to attend and enclose $10.00 per person (adults only)
             Please list your guests names and addresses when making reservations
______ I cannot attend, but wish to give  a special stewardship gift of:
_____$5,000  ____
_____$2,000  ____
_____$1,000  ____
_____$500                
_____$250   
_____other ______

_____$50 per month pledge  
_____$25 per month pledge  

Name: ___________________________________________________________
Address: _________________________________________________________
City ________________________________
State_____________
Zip________
Telephone: (             )  ____________________
email:_____________________

mail to:  
Gateway Pregnancy Centers, Inc.        
P.O. Box 1793,
Union, NJ  07083 
Website: www.gateway.org 

dean@gateway.org      

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Please pray as to how you will participate in the freewill offering to be taken that evening.

Again, the dinner is $10.00 per person (adults only). There will be an opportunity given for a freewill offering and monthly giving.

Can't make it? 
Please give online! 

Gateway's Banquet 2017 is being catered by

Vintage Italian Restaurant

9 Westfield Ave W,
Roselle Park, NJ  07204
908-445-4520                 
www.vintageitalianrestaurant.net

Claire Morabito of Vintage Italian Restaurant


Since 1985, Gateway Pregnancy Center and the former, Archway Pregnancy Center have helped over 34,276  women in a crisis  pregnancy, seeing 4,867babies known born and most importantly, over  3,690 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.

All services are free of charge and strictly confidential. 

If you have a ‘smart phone’ check out our promotional video on YouTube and follow us on Facebook!

or follow us on Twitter  email us with any questions

Gateway’s services are made possible only through church missions giving and individual gifts and pledges.

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 other Gateway videos:

You Tube: Compassion in ministry Do You Feel The Need?

The Harder Truth Promo for Pastors by Rev. Dean Gavaris

Consider giving to Gateway online

We hope to see you on  October 26th.

Check out the Gateway website www.gateway.org

Directions to Calvary Tabernacle, Cranford, NJ

Consider placing an ad in our 2017  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 Wednesday October 19, 2017

Click on the downloadable materials


Banquet 2017 Tri-Fold Brochure


Banquet 2017 Flyer

Banquet Journal Response Form 2017

Banquet 2008 - a fond look back!


Church Poster with caption 'to reserve a seat see _____________'


* check out Gloria's encouraging message to the residents of Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey
https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.gold.18/videos/10209570954807472/

Gateway's 32nd. Annual Stewardship Banquet with Gloria Gaynor

Pray for and help the Development Director Fund

Join with us as we seek a Development Director for Gateway

Provided by CoolFundraisingIdeas.net

Development Director Project Funding…

Based on the need for Gateway to sustain its current impact, and expand its outreach to Irvington, Elizabeth, and surrounding NJ areas, we have a vital need for a Development Director.

The Gateway Board, of which I am a member, believes this new staff position is imperative to the mission of Gateway. The mission of Gateway is to not only provide help and direction to the women in crisis pregnancy, but to provide them with the knowledge of God’s eternal plan for their lives.

God cares about the women we see in Irvington and Elizabeth.  We share Christ with each of the 1,600 plus women, and over 150 men we see each year, and that number keeps rising.  Gateway isn’t just a “good work” – it’s the work of ambassadors instructed by God, to reach out with the Truth that changes hearts.  That’s the message.  That’s the reason why we are still on this planet. 

Our mission motto is ‘You may be prolife, but do you have eternal life?’

In the past 32 years of ministry, Gateway has performed over 950 sonograms, trained over 675 volunteers, made more than 375 church presentations, and given out about eight tons of baby items.  We have also seen hundreds of boyfriends or husbands, and have spoken to over 32,000 about abstinence, marriage, the sanctity of life, and urging of trusting the finished work of Christ.

The Gateway Board believes that this new staff position of Development Director, will free up our Executive Director, Rev. Dean Gavaris to better utilize his role, in expansion of the education and promotion of the biblical aspect of the sanctity of life, and the perils of abortion.

The Development Director (Director of Advancement) would be responsible for activities oriented towards donor relations, event organizations, fundraising planning and implementation.  Position could also include public relations efforts, newsletters, marketing, etc.  Creating this foundation of relationship is not just necessary, but vital.

The position of the Development Director would require a $40,000.00 addition to Gateway’s current annual budget.  The proposed salary for this position would be renewable each year, solely for this position.

Proposal for Development Director Project…

Raise $40,000.00 annual salary for proposed Development Director Project, for one to five years.  Will proceed with step #2 after funding for at least one full year is completed.

1. Hire a qualified candidate for the position of Development Director (Director of Advancement).
    
2. Development Director will fully assume the role of donor relations, public relations, fundraising planning and implementation, marketing, etc.  All for the purpose of expanding Gateway’s Pro Life community outreach.
    

Where can you be involved?

1. Commit to funding of the aforementioned proposal in one of the amounts below, for the period of one to five years.

Amount: $40K___           $30K___             $20K___             $10K___              $Other________ 

# of Years: 5yrs.___        4yrs.___             3yrs.___             2yrs.___              1yr.___ 

On behalf of the Gateway Board, we thank you for your consideration of this project need. 

Yours Sincerely,

David A. West

Board Member

Gateway Pregnancy Center

Walk for Life June 3 2017

Will YOU be there?

Hope to see you all at the June 3rd. Walk for Life!        

Any questions? email us  dean@gateway.org  

or call us @ 973-399-8378

Click below for all the details! 

-   Walk letter explaining the who, what, where, when and why!     

-   Brochure

-   Sponsor Sheet           

-   Walk Prizes!      

-   Cannot attend, but here’s a gift

“Sneak peek” at the Walk T-shirt. Free to all who register (raise $50) and walk 2 miles    

Thank you to all who prayed for the February 21st Heartbeat Webinar

You can view the webinar online    or

hear the audio version

Check us out on Twitter #lostlivesmattertoGod   

Download the webinar attachments:

Evangelism in theCPC – Dig Deeper 
Evangelism in the Pregnancy Center: 114 pages

Pregnancy Women’s Resource Centers the Bible and the Great Commission a personal plea: 5 pgs.

Webinar PowerPoint Notes: 35 pages

The Heart of the Mission: 1 page

Here's our latest newsletter!

Happy Hanukkah

May you all enjoy a Happy Chanukah (Hanukkah)

 

Two of my four grandparents were from Anavrati, (photo right above: Gavaris family) a small mountainous region near Sparta. (The other two were from Kalamata, a few miles east of this). The population of Anavrati used to be about 1,400; now it is 48 - mostly retired Greeks. 

 

Here is an interesting account from a first-hand resident, answering the question: “ Was Anavriti itself really Jewish: Yes, he replied, that’s what the old people say. According to popular tradition, the village was founded by Jews around 500 AD. 

 

Later on everyone converted to orthodox Christianity, he said, but they were proud of their origins, and disappointed that the young people took no interest in the tradition. Source: http://www.greeknewsonline.com/the-beautiful-village-of.../

 

In an article published in the Oxford Journals, John Launer writes the following about Anavryti: “I found out that the legend of the Greek mountain Jews was not nearly as improbable as it seemed. Indeed, the Apocrypha records contacts between the Maccabeans and the Spartans that go back to the third century BC. Over a millennium later, there were Jews living in Sparta—although a monk named Nikon tried to have them expelled, in exchange for helping the inhabitants to overcome the plague. 

 

A Jewish quarter survived in Mystra itself after the Turkish conquest, only to be burned down later by the more brutal Venetians. Maybe the village of Anavriti had been founded by the survivors of one of these upheavals.

 

By the way, my Aunt Jeanette’s brother was the Paul Bogart (director of All in the Family) 

photo right -below

 

Check out the Story of Hanukkah: https://www.scribd.com/.../3349.../The-Story-of-Chanukah-pdf

 

A special message for you:

http://gatewayorg.blogspot.com/.../is-your-life-really...

What's Christmas All About, Anyway?

by Ruth Bell Graham

This is the Christmas season--a time for giving and receiving gifts. And for weeks now you have probably been working on your gift list and shopping, shopping, shopping.

But in this final rush before Christmas perhaps you don't care anymore. Perhaps love is dead. Or your children are beyond your influence. Or you have no children. Perhaps something has happened, and now you find no joy or meaning to your life anymore. Perhaps the most you look for is some temporary form of escape. Maybe you can't give anything. There's nothing left to give. Or there's no one left to give to.

Listen! What's Christmas all about anyway? Wasn't there a death, an emptiness, a need? Wasn't there a Love somewhere--infinite, eternal, unchangeable--a Love that gave His only  Son away?

That's what Christmas is all about: God coming to earth in the Person of the Christ Child to do for you and for me what we cannot possibly do for ourselves. Jesus lived among us and had the same kinds of problems that we do.

You haven't a problem--and I haven't a problem--that He doesn't understand from close personal experience. He spent His entire life meeting human needs. He died on the cross to deal once and for all with our greatest need--the sin problem. Just before ascending to heaven, the risen Christ gave this glorious promise: "I am with you always" (Matthew 28:20). That's what Christmas is all about.

While Jesus was here on earth, He invited people to come to Him: tired people, bad people, good people, bewildered people, laborers, revolutionaries, cheats, bigots ... it is the Invitation of the Ages. Just as people went to Jesus 2,000 years ago, today we still come to Jesus that same way: just as we are.

Our only credentials: our need. This Christmas, God is asking you to come to Him. You with your failures, your sins, your problems, your fears. You. This is Christmas. Redemption's glorious exchange of gifts!

God is loving, searching, giving Himself-- to us. People are needing, finding, giving ourselves to God. This is the meaning of Christmas. This is the wonder and the glory of it all.

You can come to God this Christmas, or anytime, by praying a simple prayer like this:

Dear God, I confess to You the emptiness in my heart, the selfishness of my thoughts, the fear in my spirit, and the sinfulness in my life. I'm so sorry. I know it was for me--and because of me--that Jesus died. Please forgive me of all my sins. Thank You for Jesus, who accepts me as I am. I come to You now, ready to spend eternity in heaven with You. Thank You for giving me Jesus! Amen