EFCA GATEWAY Theological Institute

04/19/2022

¡Únase a nosotros en un Retiro de Entrenaminento de Plantacion de Iglesias en San Antonio, en mayo! Participa y recibe fundamentación bíblica y elementos prácticos para establecer un marco de visión que defina la misión, los valores, la estrategia y el contexto para renovar una iglesia, o promover su multiplicación a través de la plantacion de nuevas iglesias en su comunidad. En este retiro habrá espacios de adoración, grupos de interacción y de trabajo. ¡Use este enlace para ver más información e registrarse en este entrenamiento! https://events.efca.org/retiro-de-entrenamiento-ministerial-en-espanol

Join us for a Church Planting Training Retreat (Hispanic Bootcamp) in San Antonio in May! Participate in and receive biblical foundation and practical elements to establish a vision framework that defines the mission, values, strategy and context to renew a church, or promote its multiplication through the planting of new the churches in your community. This retreat will have spaces of worship, interaction and work. Use this link to see more information and sign up for this training!

Este retiro tiene como objetivo proveer de un entrenamiento intensivo enfocado en el equipamiento de líderes y servidores que en esta generación trabajen para la multiplicación de Iglesias saludables a través de la plantación y pastoreo de nuevas Iglesias.

03/13/2021

Gateway class in Central district. 6 church planters. Renato Jimenez with the COSECHA Hispanic National team leading

05/05/2020

EFCA GATEWAY Theological Institute has a new website: www.efcagateway.org. You can find information about the various GATEWAY offerings or express your interest in becoming a facilitator or student there.

Once a new GATEWAY Phase I group opens and facilitators are added and students register, all the information for the course, including the curriculum are found on this new website on the specific pages for their own private GATEWAY group.

GATEWAY is open to men and women of all ethnicities and backgrounds. It will deepen your theological understanding and prepare you for leadership in EFCA churches.

04/03/2020

Church Remissionizing Needed: Please share!



Fellow laborers. I want to encourage you to be real in this day. Example of business remissionizing.
• Distilleries making hand sanitizers
• Auto plants making ventilators
• Hanes & Fruit of the Loom making face masks.

It’s time to get off of our plan and get on God’s plan. Business is driven by the dollar but right now the dollar is secondary to keeping their customers alive. That means a huge paradigm shift. I’m not sure the church is quite grasping the sea change yet.

Plans for new building, programs, initiatives, training and leadership pipelines need to be shelved to consider helping people survive physically so they can be saved spiritually.

In short, the Great Commandment needs to come before the Great Commission. This will require giving up on sweet ideas and dreams. Things that have been in the works for years. We can either recalibrate or parish.

This is a harder challenge for our church community than for business because there may be a longer lag time but eventually, we get it. My challenge is to get it now and. Get on with it. There will be a benefit on the back side of the catastrophe. People will remember who walked compassion rather than who talked about compassion.

I know this will be a pain but take the pill now church of God in order to be a healthy church later.



Alejandro Mandes Please share

12/16/2017

Way to go!

This is "Gateway 2017 Graduation" by Summit Church Alta, Iowa on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

11/27/2017

To give to GATEWAY follow this link.

Everything we do at the EFCA is made possible through the prayers and gifts of people like you. Thank you for your financial partnership in this ministry. Together, the EFCA exists to glorify God by multiplying transformational churches among all people.

11/27/2017

Ten years ago, we started GATEWAY Theological Institute. Since then many men and women have been equipped to be pastors, church planters, ministry leaders and officers in the church.
Here is a short short insight. In our majority culture churches, there are many who have gone through Collage Campus Ministries (Navigators, CRU, Intervarsity), Military ministries and Church based ministries like Bible Study Fellowship but there are few who have had the benefit of these in ethnic, immigrant and refugee ministries that have received this good training.
There are also many young leaders and retiring boomers that are look for equipping ministry to fulfill their gift and calling in the church but can’t afford seminary. GATEWAY Theological Institute meets that need. It is BUILDING AN ALTERNATIVE BENCH OF LEADERS FOR THE FUTURE other than our good Bible College and Seminary schools. It is a non-formal equipping that builds learning communities across America in English and Spanish. GATEWAY has become an organic leavening in the church fomenting all kinds of ministries and leaders of ministries.
Enjoy this video that was shared at the EFCA National Conference this year in Austin.

EFCA GATEWAY is designed for leaders who desire a pathway to unique, accessible and affordable theological training, but lack the time and resources to attend traditional…

06/27/2017

GATEWAY Celebrating 10 years of equipping the church to evangelize, make disciples and planting churches.

06/27/2017

GATEWAY just celebrated it's 10 year anniversary. Thanks you all for making it happen. We evangelize, make disciples and plant churches!

05/05/2017

Celebrating with the Hispanic students of GATEWAY Phase I in Alta, IA at their graduation at Summit Evangelical Free Church. What a blessing that this church had this presentation during their worship service. They are an example of ministry to "all people" in action.

This is "Gateway 2017 Graduation" by Summit Church Alta, Iowa on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

12/02/2016

GATEWAY received this message today and we wanted you all to celebrate with us as we congratulate this GATEWAY site on their completion of Phase I:

Hey Gateway friends,
Last night we held the mock license council for my graduating Gateway students from Cleveland 112 at Substance Church in Ashland. Everyone passed with flying colors. We had such a great time with this class and I’m very happy to recommend these three students (now leaders at Church in the Round) for graduation certificate. Please see the attached certificate order form. We can also archive the basecamp site.

I continue to be a huge supporter of the EFCA GATEWAY Theological Institute and keep recommending it to all my pastor friends.
Grace and peace,
Sean~~

Sean Matthew O’Brien, ThM
Lead Pastor
Church in the Round
216.220.7320 Ext. 707
[email protected]
ChurchInTheRound.org

08/24/2016

Fall is a great time to start a new GATEWAY Phase I site in your church in order to train your leaders theologically. Classes are held in the local church with an EFCA credentialed pastor acting as the facilitator. Contact [email protected] for more details.