Gateway
Church gathers
for worship
Sundays
at 10:30 a.m.
Location:
349 Jefferson River
Road in Athens, Georgia,
three blocks off Hwy. 129
(Jefferson Road).
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Almost
7,500 professions of faith!
We are
called to be evangelistic. Aggressively reaching
the lost with the gospel of salvation is our
task.
A friend of
mine, Jim Garlow, says it this way: "We believe
that if people really knew Jesus, they would
want him. Who could truly know Jesus and then
reject him? Who, if they truly knew about heaven
and hell, would choose hell? How could someone
truly know life with Jesus and then choose life
without him? Thus, our job is to help people
come to know him!"
Here in the
North Georgia Conference, we exist to bring
Jesus and the spiritually hungry
together.
How are we
doing? In 2002, we experienced 7,480 professions
of faith!
Our Conference membership grew by 6,140 persons,
giving us a total of 328,265 disciples of
Jesus!
I am thankful
for all the pastors and laity who continue to
share their witness with others.
We are called to
love people into the faith and the church -- to
compassionately slip our arms around hurting
persons, to show them the way to the healing,
reconciling and restoring power of
God.
2002
year-end membership totals by
District
Athens-Elberton:
20,214, up 494
Atlanta-College
Park:
37,441, up 974
Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford:
29,704, down 182
Atlanta-Marietta:
38,630, up 829
Atlanta-Emory:
35,982, up 743
Atlanta-Roswell: 39,946,
up 1,347
Dalton:
17,342, up 218
Augusta:
21,082, up 191
Gainesville:
22,704, up 539
Griffin:
21,273, up 81
LaGrange:
22,147, up 527
Rome-Carrollton:
21,798, up 379
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Bishop
G. Lindsey Davis
North Georgia Conference
The United Methodist Church
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