Welcome to
Rich in Christ
A Dead Dog At the King's
Table
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Click here to view Gateway Chapel's website.
A brand new church plant is coming to Hicksville,
Ohio. Over the past ten years, as we lived in Hicksville and I pastored 14 miles away in Grabill, Indiana, we referred
to Hicksville as "The Gateway to the Midwest". We have had a lot of fun with that, and now the name will take on new
meaning and significance as we call our new church Gateway Chapel. We want our new church to be:
- A gateway to Heaven, with an emphasis on sharing the gospel with
the lost
- A gateway to God, so that people can grow in their relationship with Him
- A gateway to truth as we stress the teaching of God's Word
- A Gateway to the world, as we emphasize the Great Commission and reaching out to the
world through missions.
We are now beginning to meet with people for prayer and planning. We
thank the Lord for this new outreach, and on behalf of my wife Pati and our three sons, we thank the Missionary Church Association
for the opportunity to work together for the furtherance of the gospel and the fulfillment of the Great Commission.
If you would like to be a part of this new ministry in Hicksville please feel
free to email or give us a call at 419 542 8898. We would love to have you join us.
We will be updating the web site on a regular basis as the Lord continues
to unfold his plans for this ministry.
Looking for an excellent discipleship
tool for family & friends that will have an immediate and eternal impact?
The books can be purchased here
online. Just click on the "Purchase Books" icon to order.
For information about Pastor Jack and the new Gateway Chapel church plant coming
soon to Hicksville click on the "About the Author" tab.
This book is an absolutely unique and fun way
to memorize God's Word, and apply its principles to your life. It is filled with practical ways to overcome discouragement,
temptation, and negative thinking. It can be used for individual study or as a discipleship tool for groups, and it
is for people of all ages.
The uniqueness of the book is its ability to equip the reader to memorize over 100 riches
in Christ. This is accomplished through the use of the alphabet and "memory pegs."
Children as young as six years
old, and adults in their nineties have been able to memorize and benefit from their riches in Christ by using the methods
found in this book
Some folks are using Rich in Christ as a home schooling
textbook. Your kids can learn over 100 riches in Christ.
Rich in Christ
was taken to Russia and the Ukraine in September of 2005. Pastor Jack was able to share the principles
of this brand-new book with 300 pastors and Christian workers. Copies of Rich in Christ were provided
as gifts and taught from during a two week missions and training trip this past September.
Pastor Jack traveled with a team of five others, representing Advancing
Native Missions from Charlottesville, Virginia.
Some of the highlights of the trip were:
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A visit to Perm, Russia, where the team was asked to minister at the
former Lenin's Palace of Culture. This former Communist, atheistic training center is now a chruch building where two
thousand worship each week.
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| Lenin's Place Now New Testament Church of Perm |
- A three day stay at a former Communist indoctrination camp in the Ukraine
under Nikita Khrushcher. Amazingly, the camp is now called Open Doors Bible Camp, where Bible camps are held for children
in the summer, and where the ANM team held a Bible Conference for Ukrainian pastors and Christian Workers.
- One of the translators took the 105 riches from Rich in Christ, and translated
them in to Russian for the conference attenders.
- Getting to spend time with some of the "street kids" who live in the Russian city
of Izhevsk.
