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= GATEWAY CITY CHURCH =

Gateway City Church ("Gateway") based in San Jose, California is a non-denominational contemporary spirit filled, multi-site, gospel church, with campuses in Santa Rosa, Modesto, and Clovis California, Gilbert, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. David & Kathy Cannistraci are Gateway's Lead Pastors for twenty years since 2000. Under their pastorship, Gateway has a vision of one church in many cities. Dr. David Cannistraci is a noted author of "books on the gift and office of apostle". The founding pastors of Gateway are Dr. Emanuele & Shirley Cannistraci who were Senior Pastors from 1970 through 2000. Dr. Emanuele Cannistraci is now Gateway's apostle with apostolic oversight of Gateway and its network and family of churches and ministries.

History
In the early 1970's, the church, then named Calvary Gospel Temple, experienced a revival that filled the little church building with young people. It was "an era of revival now known as the Jesus Movement." Within a few years the young congregation swelled to over "175 people with about 70% of the congregation under the age of 25" years old. A visitor to the church in the early 1970's, a Christian "hippie", described his visit: He saw young people "dancing" and "singing exuberantly". Their excitement was "real and palpable". These young people had something the visitor had never seen before. That night the young stranger accepted the gift of the the Holy Spirit and was so overwhelmed with love and joy he could not stop himself from hugging everyone in the church. He never returned. Years later he became a missionary and is now a pastor of a church in Maryland.

The church services were broadcast on Radio KFAX, Monday through Friday at 3:30 pm, on "Camp Meeting" (1970-1977)   and "Something Special" (1978-1984).

When the young congregation outgrew the little church building in Sunnyvale, the building was sold and the church moved to the Holy Cross High School in Mountain View, California, renamed Church of the Crossroads. The church added a Christian school and young ministers to the pastoral staff. The church added Calvary Seminary, renamed MITs (Ministers in Training), and trained young people to become ministers. The young people participated in evangelism in parks, in churches, in colleges, and on military bases. The church sent out youth teams on mission trips to Mexico and for beach evangelism in the Hawaiian islands. The church featured the youth on radio and in Youth Aflame Crusades.

In the 1980's, the church moved to San Jose, California, renamed, Evangel Christian Fellowship. The church was debt free. As Evangel's congregation grew and prospered, the church expanded programs and added young ministers on staff and sent out other young ministers to plant and pastor churches and missions. The church held home meetings in 32 locations through the San Franciso Bay Area, produced daily radio broadcasts and weekly television broadcasts, organized witnessing team, held a bible college, administered ministries and groups and events (singles, ladies, men, junior high, high school, college outreaches at SJSU, disabled, spanish ministry, vietnamese ministry, world-wide missions outreach, Moffett Field military ministry, music, praise and worship team, drama and musical productions, retreats and camps and conferences, alcoholic family support, women's health ministry, athletic teams), as well as biblical counseling, and daily intercessory prayer meetings, and a "Tape Ministry" that sent out "over 15,000 tapes per year" of sermons. Many churches associated as part of the Evangel family of churches and ministries including churches in the cities of Lucerne, Santa Rosa, Daly City, Watsonville, McFarland, Orangevale, Sacramento, Dublin, Groveland, Selma, and a Spanish Church and Filipino church in San Jose. Evangel Outreach Churches associated in Detroit, Michigan, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Roseville, Michigan. Evangel's missionary outreaches included missionaries a mission, bible school and orphanage in the Philippines, and missionaries in Haiti, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kenya, Uganda, Latin America, Italy, Baja California and Mexico. Evangel also supported Victory Church in Manila, Philippines that had outreaches throughout the Philippine provinces.

In 1990, the church was among the over 200 Pastors and Churches in the San Francisco Bay Area whose congregations united to sponsor and participate in “The Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Bay Area”. The 3-day "Prayer Break Through" event was held throughout the day and nightly on October 31 and November 1 and 2, 1990 at the San Francisco Civil Auditorium.

In 1993, the Operation Rescue prayer rally held at the church was attended by 400-500 Pro-life supporters including Catholic and Protestants led by a Catholic priest who encouraged them to remain steadfast. The people affirmed that Jesus was the moral authority on the issue of abortion for convenience. Outside Pro-abortion supporters protested.

Gateway School of Ministry
In 1996, Gateway School of Ministry, was founded to raise up the next generation of ministers. Gateway School of Ministry has now graduated 400 ministers who serve in churches, missions, ministries, outreaches and the marketplace.

Gateway's Apostolic Networks
The Antioch Network of Churches and Ministries was formed in 1995 as a global apostolic prophetic network and ministry of Gateway led by Dr. Emanuele Cannistraci.

Apostolic Missions International ("AMI") was formed in 1998 as Gateway's apostolic "ministry to emerging apostles and missions" overseen by Gateway's Apostle Emanuele Cannistraci.

The International Apostolic Leadership Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii is a conference hosted by Gateway's Apostle Emanuele Cannistraci and by Gateway's Lead Pastor David Cannistraci and Mel Mullen of Canada where church planting leaders gather to network, be taught and share testimonies.

Gateway Community Outreach
Gateway's sister non-profit organization, Gateway Community Outreach (GCO), has a mission to transform the community by strengthening families in the Silicon Valley. GCO's Family Resource Center supports over "1500 families weekly providing food, clothing, life skills classes, and more at no cost". GCO's award-winning Duck Pond Playspace, provides an indoor and outdoor play space that serves over 10,000 families annually. GCO supports Foster Children who are at a higher risk than children raised in a supportive home. GCO's mission includes a Homeless Outreach. GCO collaborates with other organizations to Stand for Justice against human trafficking. Since 2008, GCO organized awareness events for Human Trafficking and later with Transitions Global jointly commissioned a study and hosted and presented the findings at Rescue is Not Enough, in 2014 a conference attended by 170 people, including government, community, and business leaders. Speakers at the conference included Zoe Lofgren, U.S. Representative; Ash Kaira, San Jose Council member; and Dave Cortese, Santa Clara County Supervisor. The conference identified the need for "better collaboration, centralized data, better law enforcement, protocol development once the victims are identified and rescued, and for a comprehensive service model" including long term shelters that are compassionate and not punitive to the victims. GCO also offers "tutoring, workshops, training, and the creative arts for the local community".

In 2016, Gateway was part of the "Housing One Hero" campaign in 2016 to provide housing to homeless veterans. The City of San Jose's Mayor, Sam Licardo, unveiled the campaign and held the press release at Gateway City Church. “It’s going to take a miracle. But we are in the miracle business, so we think the cause is right,” said David Cannistraci, pastor of Gateway City Church who "is helping to lead the charge, and already has commitments from more than a dozen religious organizations who have pledged to help, in part by encouraging their followers to do good." "There are more than 700 homeless veterans in Santa Clara County, county data show. Mayor Sam Licardo thanked Gateway for housing so many homeless vets. Dr. David Cannistraci gave the invocation at Santa Clara County Board of Supervior's meeting on November 1, 2016 with an introduction by Supervisor David Cortese and Dr. David Cannistraci gave the invocation at the City of San Jose Council Meeting on December 13, 2016 with an introduction by Mayor Sam Licardo.

In 2019, GCO's 2019 Annual Report reports that GCO has reached over 13,250 families.

In 2020, Gateway initiated a donation drive for essential items for the homeless during the Covid pandemnic.