Gateway Church (Texas)
| Gateway Church | |
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| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Non-denominational charismatic |
| Website | gatewaypeople |
| History | |
| Founded | April 2000 |
| Clergy | |
| Senior pastor(s) | Robert Morris |
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Gateway Church is a non-denominational, charismatic Christian multi-site megachurch based in Southlake, Texas, near Dallas. It is the largest congregation in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, with an estimated weekly attendance of 36,000 as of 2016. The church is home to well known Christian recording artist Kari Jobe.
On September 16, 1999, Pastor Robert Morris began to plan a Bible-based, evangelistic church in Southlake, Texas. Gateway Church's first service was held on Easter morning, 2000, at the Hilton Hotel in Grapevine. Approximately 180 people attended the service. The church grew, and moved to an old movie theater in Grapevine.
Robert Morris is featured on the weekly television program, The Blessed Life, produced by the church. He is the author of several books including The Blessed Life, The God I Never Knew, Truly Free and Frequency. He is also the Chairman of Board of The King's University, an Overseer of New Life Church in Colorado Springs and an Apostolic Elder of Trinity Fellowship Church in Amarillo, Texas. He received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from The King's University.
The church currently conducts 27 weekend services at six locations across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. A church affiliated with Gateway Church called Gateway Scottsdale opened in Scottsdale, Arizona in August 2012.
In 2008, the church began work on a new main campus located along State Highway 114. The project included a 4,000 seat sanctuary. It opened on November 13, 2010.
2121 Old Southlake Campus
114 New Southlake Campus
In November 2007, Gateway opened a new campus in North Richland Hills, Texas. The building is almost 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) in size and sits on approximately nine acres. Weekend services at the NRH Campus are a mirror of those at the main Southlake Campus with live worship and personal ministry, but with the message delivered via live video from the Southlake Campus. Pastor Byron Copeland serves as the Campus Pastor. The NRH campus is also home to Gateway's Messianic Jewish ministries. The Messianic congregation is said by the church to be the largest in the United States, with some services reaching over 1,000 people.
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