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What are you doing for others?

Pete Armstrong used this quote from Martin Luther King, Jr to conclude his Sunday evening message on ‘The Parable of the Vineyard Workers’. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Here are Pete’s 5 key points in response to - what can we do to avoid envy?1. Recognise when you are envious2. If we fall into envy, confess it as sin and accept forgiveness3. Accept who you are, as you are, with gratitude4. Learn the joy of giving to others5. K...

You are the light of Christ

Thank you to Sarah-Mae Ycaro for an inspiring unpacking of ‘The Parable of the Lamp’ yesterday morning. Sarah-Mae’s 3 key points:1. The birth of the light2. The revelation of the light3. The hope of the light...

The Good Samaritan

Thanks Chloe Stantiall for your wonderful message on Sunday night!We loved Chloe’s take on ‘The Good Samaritan’ and it’s application to us, explained through the meaning of ‘rongo’.Chloe’s closing comment - “Jesus asks us, his sheep, to rongo to his voice, listen with all our senses, listen properly, let’s get close to others and rongo.”...

The Parable of the Ten Virgins

Thanks to Michael John for expounding on ‘The Parable of the Ten Virgins’ yesterday morning. What an inspiring message! This image is the proclamation Michael called us to speak over one another in the gathering. Michael’s key points: 1. Do not set yourself up for a failure2. Let us keep our lamps trimmed & burning3. Revelation is for an appointed time...

The Parable of the Lost Things

This is one of Gary Pinkerton's quotes from Sunday morning's message. We proclaim this over our Gateway whānau, over their whānau, over our world today....

The Parable of the Servant Friends

We love this quote from C. S. Lewis, that Dan Buttar used in his message last night....

The Parables

Welcome back Gateway whānau! Our Summer Series "The Parables" kicks off at both our 10am and 6.30pm gatherings tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing you all again. See you there!...

'Christ the Saviour is Born'

Merry Christmas Everyone! What a beautiful evening we had together last night. Our Saviour is so incredibly celebrating!...

Come to the Table

Come to the Table.. We invite you to come to the table in our 10am & 6.30pm gatherings....

God is over and above all

Well, here we are with the last E Newsletter for 2020!!  It’s hard to comprehend the year we have just had. Who could have imagined this time last year what was about to unfold. I suspect, thinking back, that this time last year, we had probably heard about some weird virus that was affecting Wuhan, a mid-sized city in China, but the thought of a global pandemic bringing sickness and death, economic disruption and the cessation of world-wide travel to most of the planet certainly wasn’t...

Welcome Stephen James Hart

We are very excited to welcome Stephen James Hart to our team. He joins our staff as our Creative and Communications Team Leader. Stephen spent his teenage years growing up in Gateway, but has been away working with Bethel Music for the last 6 years in Redding, California, USA where he served as a designer, photographer and visual worship leader. He's passionate about seeing creativity released within the body of Christ and people stepping into their God-given identity and creativity. We want to...

The Rescue Plan - Kids Christmas Service

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Nativity photo booth

Here's some familiar faces! On Sunday morning after the gathering we have a photo booth happening....

Mary Questioned. Mary Submitted. Mary Worshipped.

1. We need to look beyond our own abilities.“These words (The Holy Spirit will come upon you) give the one sufficient and satisfying resource capable of both begetting life and making it work. The same spirit present at the Genesis creation, who brought life and order out of emptiness and chaos, is the One heaven still prescribes. The power that worked God’s word and will at the beginning of the created order, is the same power that brings God’s word and will to pass in the redemptive orde...

Rejoice in the waiting - Desk of Sylvia

Advent is a season of waiting - waiting for the birth of the promised Christ-child. A promise that for Mary was 9 months in the waiting but for the Jewish people, a promise that had literally been hundreds of years in the waiting. Waiting, looking and listening for some sign that its fruition was imminent.  Sometimes waiting seems to be unending and yet we still continue to wait. Why? Because God has, at some time, spoken a promise to us  -  and so we must wait. Not...

Waiting Well

Don’t you love it when you see God moving in and through our days?Matt on Sunday talked about waiting well in our faith journey. Looking back over past weeks - Mike talked about Elizabeth’s waiting and the mystery of God working in the waiting time. Megan talked about the ‘in between’ and seeking God’s presence in our Now But Not Yet series. Chris in A study in Habakkuk spoke about Wait.Watch.Worship - for His Kingdom is both now and yet to come. Don earlier in the year talked about ho...

King of Kings, Hillsong Worship.

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The Characters of Simeon & Anna

Thanks Matt for a great message about two less known characters in the Christmas story. 1) Simeon & Anna teach us that Jesus is for “all peoples.”2) What we really want for Christmas is God’s fix for our problems: Encouragement & Salvation!3)  Simeon and Anna teach us how to wait well for Jesus’ reappearance....

A Worship Night

One of the dates to pop on your calendar is for a worship night Sunday 13th December at 6.30pm. We’ll be having hot chocolates following the gathering for some Christmas cheer so polish up your keep cups to bring along...

Let us be gentle with each other - Desk of Andrea

Pondering Elizabeth and Mary’s place in the Christmas story sparks memories for me of living among women in the Middle East. Most summers I celebrated the wedding of a young Palestinian couple. The bride normally in her late teens, always a virgin, was expected to have given birth to her first child, hopefully a son, by the time the first wedding anniversary arrived. And every month preceding that she would be asked by the women in her family and village whether she was pregnant yet, particula...

Welcome to Christmas at Gateway

The Christmas season is upon us and this Sunday am & pm gatherings we will be handing out our advent invites to the special gatherings happening in December. Be sure to get one or pick up one to invite family & friends! We greatly look forward to sharing this season with you all....

Meet Hannah!

Meet Hannah! Hannah has spent this year as an intern in our Generations area. For the past term she has been looking after our Emerge crew (Intermediate age) and we are so thrilled that she will be continuing on in this role in 2021....

We See the Lord

Mike’s conclusion to his Character of Elizabeth message on Sunday. I believe It’s time for us to stand again with a renewed declaration of faith like Elizabeth, whether we are in the midst of barrenness, or of reproach, of obscurity or prominence, when we are in the midst of a world in moral decline or for that matter in the middle of joy and laughter and in blessing and in harvest and abundance and say Let us live at peace in the mystery of GodLet us be steadfast in the trialLet the descrip...

Living in the mystery of God

How relevant was Mike’s message yesterday as he talked about living in the mystery of God. How we live in a culture of instant gratification and that can become entwined with an expectation of God’s immediate demonstration of response to our prayer. Many times our God is working on a larger plan. ‘Father God is neither care-less nor cause-less with how he spends our lives. When he calls a soul simultaneously to greatness and obscurity, the fruit if we wait for it - can change the world’ ...

What's for Dinner - desk of Jono

Lately I’ve been thinking about the story of Jesus, Mary & Martha, and how “Mary … made the right choice” (Luke10:42). These were the words Jesus spoke to Martha after she ‘was distracted by her many tasks’ (Luke 10:40) while Mary sat at the feet of Jesus. And If I am honest I have always struggled with these words from Jesus. I want to say to Him:  “Jesus, the food doesn’t cook itself and if it wasn’t for Martha I’m sure that there would have be...