On Sunday, June 29th, John spoke to us about being locally effective and globally connected.  Below is an excerpt from his sermon charging us to prayerfully consider how we can do just that. 

“So here’s what I want to ask you to do. Pray for our city. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Bab ...

Gateway is a huge reason that I am not only alive today, but I am blessed with a peace I never imagined would be possible on this ...

When I came to Gateway I was on a search for something.  I believed in God but knew little of Jesus or the Bible. Having done things the other way, I could see pretty readily how Christian principles were meant to give me a better life and draw me closer to God.

Generation after generation my family has self destructed in an endless cycle of pain, guilt, depression, and helplessness. With agnostic alcoholic parents, I found myself in my early teens looking for joy in all the wrong places. By the age of nineteen, I had become a battered girlfriend of a drug-addicted man and found myself pregnant.< ...

My parents got divorced when I was ten years old due to extramarital affairs my mother had throughout their marriage.  Although I don’t remember them all, the last one that caused my dad to leave is something I have carried with me fo ...

The past three years have been just incredible.  I don’t even feel like the same person I was six years ago…which is a good thing.  In many ways, I feel more in touch with the ‘me’ I knew as a ch ...

As an adult, I was never involved with church at all, except occasionally on holidays. I felt that religion was just a man-made belief system created by desperate people to fill some sort of void within. 

I don’t go to Gateway, but my mom and step dad are members there.  I live in Louisiana and have visited your church once or twice.  Being a huge U2 fan, my mom told me what ya’ll were doing for Easter and my stepdad emailed me and told me to check it out on the website.  I have always felt connected thru their music and your message really hit home with me.  I felt as though you were talking directly to ...

I'm in Wisconsin and enjoy the Sunday after-lunch calls from my son who tells me about the sermon he heard at your church.  Newly married, he and his wife (she's comfortable at your church) are growing in the Lord through your ministry.  We used to live on Covered Bridge Road in South Barrington, a stone's throw from Willow Creek Church, where we often visited despite being members at Community Church in Barrington.  Now, he's in Au ...