About us


Pastors Jesse and Tammy Rodgers have been married for 24 years. They are the proud parents of one daughter and seven sons; Checed, Carissa, Christopher, Caleb, Chavon, Corbin, Creed and Cruz. Tammy home schools the children focusing on godly values, character development and academic excellence. She is batting 1000 to date, having the three oldest in college on full paid scholarships resulting from exceptional SAT scores. They have traversed the nation many times as well as circled the globe many times together in their 24 years. They also lived as resident missionaries in South East Asia for 5 years, based in Singapore from 1991-1996. They presently reside in Ada, OK where they proudly pastor GATEWAY church.

Pastor Rodgers has been in the ministry for over thirty years now. His ministry has taken him to nearly thirty nations on all five major continents. He taught for five years at Ozark Bible Institute and College while completing his Masters Degree in Biblical Literature from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.

After Seminary Pastor founded an international evangelistic ministry, Global Outreach. He and the family based in Singapore and reached into many nations of the 10/40 window. From Singapore he reached into East and West Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong and Nepal with evangelism crusades and leadership training. He also taught at the Asian Theological Center for Evangelism and Missions in Singapore as well as Bible Colleges in India, Malaysia, indonesia and the Philippines.

Pastor Rodgers has led GATEWAY Church from its inception in 2000. He is excited about networking with other congregations in Ada to see the birthing of the CHURCH. Pastor's most recent endeavors are the founding of "The Church United", a global initiative working with G-12 government structures to see the total transformation of cities around the world. And the development of an online theological training institute.