Impact Newsletter-July 21

Welcome To Gateway

Livestream of Speakers and Ordination Service during Leadership Summit will be available on our facebook page

Live-streaming of the following speakers will be available during Leadership Summit on our facebook page:

Bishop Cowart's sessions on "The Free Methodist Way", Supt. Tolly's "State of the" Work and James Clark, Vice President of Public Safety & Community, Metropolitan Urban League of St. Louis. The Ordination Service will also be live-streamed.

Leadership Summit and the Ordination Service will also be recorded for viewing afterwards.

More information will be sent in the newsletter the week of Leadership Summit.

Nominating Committee Ballot will be sent next week Wednesday, July 28 to those eligible to vote

Those eligible to vote will receive an e-mail ballot Wednesday, July 28. The e-mail title will be Nominating Committee Ballot. You will not be able to vote after Wednesday, August 4th. This ballot will be re-sent in three days to those who have not opened it.

Click here to view Nominating Committee Ballot and Biographies.

2021 Gateway Leadership Summit

Saturday, August 7, 2021

7:30am-6:30pm

The LeClaire Room, 600 Troy Road, Edwardsville, IL

"The Free Methodist Way"

Schedule:

7:30am- Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:30am- Worship/Welcome/Communion

9:00am- Bishop Cowart on “The Free Methodist Way”. Click here to learn more

10:30am-Break

10:45am-Bishop Cowart on “The Free Methodist Way”. Click here to learn more

11:45am- Organize Conference/Nominating Ballot results

Noon- Lunch. Lunch is not provided. There will be opportunities to attend sponsored lunches. Sign-up sheets will be available Saturday morning for sponsored lunches.

Click here for lunch options close by.

1:30pm- BOA & MEGA Reports

2:30pm-Supt. Tolly-State Of The Work

3:15pm- Break

3:30pm- James Clark, Vice President of Public Safety & Community, Metropolitan Urban League of St. Louis. Click here to learn more about the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis

4:30pm-Adjourn to leave for Ordination Service (carpooling available)

5:00pm-Ordination Service at The Bridge FMC*

7:00pm-Dinner at The LeClaire Room (Service Awards and Newly Retired will be honored during Dinner)* Pre-registration was required for dinner and is now closed.

Important Information

Meal registration is now closed and no longer available.

Click here for reports

Click here for hotel information (please make reservations early)

Click here for places to visit

*Childcare will be provided during the Ordination Service and Dinner.

Click here for more information.

You are invited to a virtual Global Church Planting Summit hosted by Asbury Theological Seminary and Nazarene Theological College. Every three years, the Global Summit invites leaders, practitioners, and scholars to gather together and share stories of disciple-making movements from every corner of the globe to foster conversations across ethnic, national, and ecclesiastical borders.

This year, the Global Summit is entirely online, which opens the door to many voices and perspectives who otherwise could not attend. The event will take place from August 10-12, 2021 with sessions from 7:00a-10:00a Eastern Time each day. Sessions will consist of plenary speakers, case studies from every major region, and topical panel discussions on relevant themes for 21st-century church planters in any context.

Registration for this event is FREE, so please consider setting aside these few hours each morning to join us for a time of listening and responding to stories of the Church's growth in every part of the world.

Click here to register