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Gateway Worship // Greater Things By Doug Doppler With six locations across the Dallas-Ft. Worth contributions. We also wanted to leverage this [WM] When you started at Gateway, there metropolitan area, Gateway Church is one of opportunity to hear from Andy Engstrom, Head was one campus with a few hundred people in the biggest and fastest growing Churches in of Live Production at Gateway Church. Andy’s the congregation. Now there are six campuses the United States. The latest Gateway Worship feature will be available in the December 2018 and over 40,000 people who call Gateway their album Greater Than was released in both issue in our Church Tech + Production section. home. What are some of the specific things you English and Spanish (Mas Grande), reflecting the diversity of the Gateway culture. did in the early years that became part of the INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS MILLER Gateway DNA and still bear fruit today? Another thing that makes Gateway unique is the [Thomas Miller] The first thing that I did that value they place on replicating DNA. In the first set us on the right course was that I asked that part of this feature you’ll get a chance to hear we would experience God, in the greatest way from Thomas Miller, Gateway’s original Worship we can, in our services. So I just made that our Pastor. Unlike many Churches where Worship purpose statement: Our worship department Pastors are ‘sent out to the pasture’ never to and our worship ministry purpose statement be heard from again, Thomas Miller remains a became “To experience God in the greatest key part of the Gateway team. You’ll also get a way possible in all of our services.” I wanted chance to hear from Thomas’ successor Mark to be under the vision of our senior pastor, and Harris. Gateway had the wisdom to use this wanted to make sure that I carried that out. transition as an opportunity to pass the torch in a way that leveraged Thomas’ contribution Another big decision that I made up front was in the act of preparing for the future. Honor is that I wasn’t just going to focus on someone’s the word that comes to mind, and that speaks skill or their ability. We would also focus on of a culture that values people, not just their making sure that the people who were on 26 November 2018 WorshipMusician.com