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From The Beginning,
One Of Open
Gate Ministries'
Primary Goals
Has Been
Short-Term, Global
Missions Trips.
We believe
that each believer in the
church should have the
opportunity to go on missions
trips to spread the good news of
the gospel and that this
ministry
should not be limited
to only a select few people who
act in the role of
"professional" missionaries. As
such we have repeatedly
fulfilled this goal over the
years having sent teams of
people from the church to places
all around the world... places
such as Africa, the
Philippines, Russia, and
most recently, Spain and
Morocco. These teams have
been made up of church leaders
and church congregants,
and the experience has been
rewarding for all... both those
of us in the church who have
gone and those to whom we
brought the gospel message.
Because we are a
house-church
ministry, we do not have the
enormous expenses of maintaining
a church building such as
rent/mortgage, electricity,
heating etc., so this frees our
church up to instead use those monies that would normally go to
building expenses toward the
expenses of sending teams around
the globe.
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