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Location:
6425 Jefferson Rd. For
directions, click here.
FROM
THE BISHOP From 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! 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. Bishop
G. Lindsey Davis
Gateway
Church gathers
for worship
Sundays
at 10:30 a.m.
(Hwy. 129) in Athens,
Georgia.
Ministry
of the
Word:
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Gateway
Today
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The
Gateway
Blog
(online
newsletter)
Gateway
Today
The
e-magazine of
Gateway Church
WINTER
2003
Almost
7,500 professions of
faith!
We
are called to be evangelistic.
Aggressively reaching the lost with the
gospel of salvation is our task.
Our Conference membership grew by
6,140 persons, giving us a total of
328,265 disciples of Jesus!
2002
year-end membership totals by
DistrictAthens-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
North Georgia Conference
The United Methodist
Church