The Gatehouse Blog

The Gatehouse Blog

God Wants Us To Flex

There is a new season in the church! Are we ready to ENLARGE the place of our tent, stretch our tent curtains wide, not holding back, to LENGTHEN our cords, STRENGTHEN our stakes? God Wants Us To Flex is a new Gatehouse sermon series teaching about the body of Christ moving forward, going further and stepping forward to spread the Good News of the Gospel. Sermon Archive – God Wants Us To Flex

Online Alpha

Our Alpha Course will be once again starting on the 26th April to be held online from 7pm. Full details will be sent to you once you have signed up. Go to Sign Up page

Easter Services 2022

Our Easter Services for 2022 are as below: Palm Sunday – 10th April 10.30am – Watch the livestream / Repeat Good Friday – 15th April 10.30am – Watch the livestream / Repeat Easter Sunday Family Service – 17th April 10.30am – Watch the livestream / Repeat

Mother’s Day

At the Mother’s Day service held recently Kay and Ihechi talked about how the verses from Colossians 3:18-20 work in their families. Watch video

Thank You Volunteers

There were some inspirational testimonies from some of our Volunteers at Sunday morning’s Volunteer Sunday about what they volunteer as and why they do it. We thank all of the volunteers for their willingness to use their gifts and abilities to strengthen the mission and ministry of the Gatehouse. Here are some of our volunteers and the information tables represented after the service: You can watch the full service on our YouTube channel.

ERA: European Conflict

Elim Missions is launching an ERA appeal to support those affected by the conflict in Ukraine.  EM are working in partnership with Samaritan’s Purse, their Elim Missionaries in the area and the Elim Global National Leader, Viktor. Read more (Go to Elim Missions website)

Volunteer Sunday

Come and join us on Sunday, 20th March at 10.30am for our volunteer appreciation & information day. We will be showing our appreciation for all our volunteers and they will be showing what they are involved in & if anyone would like to join the volunteers team they can find out more about it at the event.

Finance Report [Vision meeting]

Liz Hall (Finance Officer) | 8.02.2022 Finances is not just about figures and spreadsheets, rather, the finances of a Church are one of the keys to growth and reaching the lost. Unfortunately, the short story is that over the last year our finances have been the focus of much prayer.  That is simply because a number of months we have wondered if we were going to be able meet our needs.   Most months we have about £1,000.00 shortfall between income…

Children’s Report [Vision meeting]

Kay Walker (Children’s Report) | 9.02.2022 From February to June 2021 we continued with giving the children activities to do in the service.  We had been putting a link on the website for families at home to download activities but stopped doing this after a few months as it was no longer being used. In person Sunday school resumed in July.  It has been lovely to be able to have space to run around, make a noise, have fun, learn…

Youth Report [Vision Meeting]

Emma Gaze (Youth Report) | 9.02.2022 In September 2020 I started working with Gatehouse Church to develop their youth work. In the youth at the time were 4 young people – Lucy, Peter, Maki and Jeri. The team consisted of Paula, Lewis, Tily and Daniel. We were hoping to start an in person youth club quite soon on, and so we did some Sunday afternoon gatherings to get to know the team and invite friends. Lucy invited two of her…