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Dear Gathering Community, It is not often that I write a special letter to the whole congregation, but this week is different. I could not wait to share this news. We just finished processing our Christmas Eve offering and it totaled over $110,000! That is nearly 50% higher than last year and is an amazing…

Christmas Eve worship at The Gathering this year held many firsts for me, and is one that I will remember for a long time. It was the first time we worshipped at our Clayton site (2 & 11 pm). It is the first time we have ever had to set up chairs in the entryway…

All of us have friends, neighbors, coworkers even acquaintances that may be searching for something more in their life. This is the perfect time to offer an invitation to someone you know to join you for Sunday worship or Christmas Eve. To help you out, we’ve listed some ideas for how you can spread the…

The last week has been an interesting one! There are several things at The Gathering to be excited about. I want to highlight a few. 1. Last Sunday, we had record attendance at The Gathering. 677 people worshipped with us! That number is important. Why? Because it represents people, friends, coworkers, neighbors that are connecting…

This Sunday we will end our series Multiply: Change Starts with You. There will be a time in worship for people to consider the way they are being nudged to step up and out in their faith. Much of the focus has been on the Clayton site. With that, there have been a lot of…

Part of the job of any leader is to occasionally call for a “decisional moment”. These moments are akin to calling the question in a board meeting. They are times in our lives when we are given an opportunity to make a choice about what we want to do, which direction we want to move….