{"id":1144,"date":"2020-10-19T13:41:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/?page_id=1144"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:07:18","slug":"helpwecanhelp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/?page_id=1144","title":{"rendered":"Partner with us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"April 2025 slide update\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hVaxhyoB2F0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\n\t<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HOWDY PARTNERS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I thank my God\u00a0in all my remembrance of you,\u00a0always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,\u00a0because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:3-6<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Baltimore-prayer-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>JOIN OUR PRAYER TEAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EMAIL AUSTIN AT <a href=\"mailto:austinmerylodonald@gmail.com\">austinmerylodonald@gmail.com<\/a> and say that you want to be put on the email prayer network. These are several emails a year with Austin communicating strategic ways you can pray.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<strong>FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THE O&#8217;DONALDS<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>as they serve the church and the lost in Baltimore<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Baltimore-prayer-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>\n<p>Make a check out to <i>FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF NORRIS<\/i> and send it to&#8230;<\/p>\nFirst Baptist Church Norris<br \/>\nPO Box 130<br \/>\nNorris, SC 29667\n<p>Put in the memo line the words &#8220;BALTIMORE CHURCH PLANTING&#8221; and send the check with a small note saying that this is for the O&#8217;Donalds&#8217; church planting ministry in Baltimore. This year FBC Norris will continue to be the source of the O&#8217;Donalds&#8217; salary. So, giving to &#8220;Baltimore Church Planting at FBC Norris&#8221; is immensely helpful this year. THANK YOU SO MUCH!<\/p>\n<strong>ANOTHER OPTION FOR GIVING: THE GATES CHURCH IN BALTIMORE<br \/>\n<\/strong>For various projects, we ask you to give directly to The Gates Church in Baltimore. There are three ways you can give.\n<ol>\n<li>Send a check to &#8220;The Gates Church&#8221; making your check out to &#8220;The Gates Church,&#8221; and mail it to<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nTHE GATES CHURCH<br \/>\n800 Platinum Ave.<br \/>\nEssex, MD 21221\n<p>2. Give online to &#8220;The Gates Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can give online to our church ministry. There is a small fee that is charged. The link that will guide you through a process to give online is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giving.servantkeeper.com\/thegateschurch\">https:\/\/giving.servantkeeper.com\/thegateschurch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Our church has a PayPal account that you can use to give also. Below is the link for our PayPal giving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=4LLSYUF2NCY56\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=4LLSYUF2NCY56<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TAKE A MISSION TRIP WITH US TO BALTIMORE<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Baltimore-prayer-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our mission trips in Baltimore are awesome affordable ways to get your church group or family involved and immersed in urban ministry and church planting. Team members will grow in their evangelism and ministry skills, be challenged spiritually as they serve, and be a huge help to our ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The mission trips we host range from a couple of days to a whole week. We always like to take teams on a &#8220;prayer tour&#8221; of the city. Teams will help our people do ministry projects, needed construction projects, and\/or evangelistic ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Our church is located near the county line in Northeast Baltimore. Our church building has been adapted to host mission teams of 12 and more. We have bunk beds, showers and a kitchen area for meals. Our costs are minimal for your team to stay at our facility.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you will come and be encouraged to minister, grow spiritually, and experience God&#8217;s kingdom mission in a different area with a great spiritual need- Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARTNER LETTERS FROM THE LAST YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spring-update-2025-1.pdf\">Spring update 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/winter-partner-2025.pdf\">winter partner 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/partner-letter-end-of-summer-24.pdf\">partner letter end of summer 24<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOWDY PARTNERS I thank my God\u00a0in all my remembrance of you,\u00a0always in every prayer of mine for you all making&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegateschurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}