Sunday Gathering

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COAT DRIVE

Gateway is partnering with Urban Bicycle Food Ministry, a local nonprofit that offers radical hospitality to those experiencing homelessness and food insecurity in Des Moines.

This fall, we’re collecting new or gently used blankets, sleeping bags, coats, and other winter clothing. Please bring your donations to the church and place them in one of the two large storage tubs near the main entrance. We’ll ensure they reach those in need.

We are going to enter into a time of giving. If you would like to give at this time, there are a couple of ways available to you:

- Visit our website at thegatewaychurch.com to give online.

- Or you can grab an envelope and drop it in the black offering box at the back of the room.

Please join me in reading our generosity liturgy.

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Holy Father, there is nothing I have that You have not given me.

All I have and am belong to You, bought with the blood of Jesus.

To spend everything on myself, and to give without sacrifice,

is the way of the world that You cannot abide.

But generosity is the way of those who call Christ their Lord;

who love Him with free hearts and serve Him with renewed minds.

Who withstand the delusion of riches that chokes the word;

Whose hearts are in your kingdom and not in the systems of the world.

I am determined to increase in generosity until it can be said that there is no needy person among us.

I am determined to be trustworthy with such a little thing as money that You may trust me with true riches.

Above all, I am determined to be generous because You, Father, are generous.

It is the delight of Your daughters and sons to share Your traits, and to show what You are like to all the world.

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Communion is available in the baskets at the end of each row. Contains juice and wafer (gluten-free option available).

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