Gateway Educational Services Special Announcement:
January 1, 2010
· EPIC International to serve as administrators and facilitators of Gateway’s ministries.
Dear Supporters of Gateway Educational Services,
I am excited to announce to you all that Gateway is now under the umbrella of EPIC International as of today, January 1, 2010!
Gateway Educational Services began as a grass-roots/non-traditional missions organization in the Spring of 2002 and was founded by Jacob and Lisa Pursley. Gateway’s mission is to use Turkey as a Gateway country and choose Gateway cities to fulfill the Creation and Evangelistic mandates found in the Bible. This is done through writing, education (NUT School), mercy ministries (Zacchaeus Projects), evangelism, church planting (Beytel) and the sending of local missionaries to fulfill both mandates to the unreached. Our focus has been the least reached people of the country of Turkey, namely the Kurds.
Gateway is grateful for those who have administrated and facilitated the company, those who volunteered their time and finances; without them Gateway could not have accomplished anything. Since Gateway was conceived it had not found any other ministry that had similar values and philosophy of ministry until the divine appointment with EPIC International workers on January 26, 2009. After several meetings, fasting and prayer the board of Gateway has made the decision to come under EPIC for financial accountability and further direction for the ministry.
What is EPIC? EPIC is an acronym for: Enabling Partners in Church-Planting. They are based out of Atlanta, Georgia and working to fulfill both Creation and Evangelistic mandates in countries such as Bangladesh, India, Northern Iraq, Armenia and now in Turkey with a goal to reach the Kurds!
Why EPIC? Out of all of the ministries doing work in the world that I am aware of, I am fully convinced that EPIC is one of the few uniquely trying to fulfill the Evangelistic and Creation mandates Biblically without exception! One important aspect of EPIC’s unique philosophy for Gateway is that there is no distinction and or separation of “nationals” and “foreigners”. They truly see the “nationals” as partners in the ministry to work with as equal brothers and sisters in the ministry. Their missions’ philosophy is par to none, and I encourage you all to examine their website and learn from an organization that is doing the work well. I also encourage you to look at their projects page to see how they are fulfilling the mandates. www.epicinternational.org
What will change for you the supporter? Your prayers and finances will continue to go towards the Zacchaeus projects, J. and L.’s support, the support of national evangelist “E.” and the help of Beytel East and West, along with Christian resources. The only change will be the address of where your donations are sent. We will send you a follow-up update on how financial donations will be taken care of. You will also begin to receive letters from EPIC International, and I believe that you will be blessed by them as we have.
Please check out EPIC’s organization website: www.epicinternational.org
· If you have any questions about the change please feel free to contact: gatewayeducationalservices@hotmail.com
J. of G.E.S.
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