"Can you hear me now?"

Have you ever seen such beautiful buttons and knobs?

We just have to share what God has done for this ministry in the past couple of weeks.

When we started Gateway we were blessed with a small sound system. It has been great and we are so thankful that God provided that for us. But we had already begun to outgrow that system. The sound board was maxed out and we couldn't add anything else to it. So, we have been checking around and believing God that we could find something to help get us to the next level.

Well, the people that live in the apartment above us just happen to be a Christian band. We met them when we moved in and talk to them frequently as we pass each other outside. A couple of weeks ago, the leader and the manager of the band came knocking on our door. They began sharing that they were going to be moving and the band was going in another direction. They were going to be getting rid of their sound equipment and wanted to know if we might be interested!!! Uhh, ya! Rick met with them and checked out all the equipment they had. They provided us with a list breaking down all the equipment and the copies of the pricing information from when they had purchased it.

To make a long story, somewhat shorter, they were selling over $17,000 worth of equipment! Nice equipment. They wanted to offer it to us first for only ....get this.....$1500!!! The equipment included a 32-channel sound board, several nice microphones, huge speakers, 100 ft snake, mic stands, power amps, road cases, cables galore and on an on. I don't know half of what the stuff is but I do know the sound we have now. We have more than enough to do what we need to do.

God is so amazing that He provided this awesome blessing for us. Talk about favor! We have so many things going on right now we just don't know what He's up to next. There is definitely a stirring going on here. The great thing about this is that it was presented to the church family and they rose to the occasion! They became so excited and stretched their faith with us.

We just want to give thanks to God for what He's done. I don't know if you really know what a huge blessing this is. Trust me. We've been pricing this equipment and just one of the items we were looking at was more than what we paid for the whole package of equipment.

Like we've said before, thank you for your continued prayers and support. It really is making a difference!

We love and miss you all. Thank you for rejoicing with us!