Gateway Church to end Saturday services in Southlake starting April 12, pastor says
Gateway Church will no longer hold Saturday services at its Southlake campus beginning April 12, church leaders said last month.
The campus will instead move to holding two Sunday services at 9 and 11 a.m., Pastor Jelani Lewis said during a March 8 service.
The change in service times will help the church align more with a culture of service, Lewis said, adding that roughly 15% of the Gateway congregation is involved with serving the church.
In conversations with other churches and their leaders, Lewis said, elders determined that holding two services on Sundays allows congregants to attend one and serve at the other.
Under the current schedule, “if you attend one and serve one, it’s taking your whole weekend and taking time away from your family,” Lewis said.
Elementary school classes at the church’s current 10:30 a.m. service are also nearing capacity, Lewis said, and shifting the services to two times will allow the church to serve more families.
“The best is absolutely yet to come for Gateway Church,” Lewis said at the end of his announcement.
The announcement came three weeks before the church’s founder, Robert Morris, was released from an Oklahoma prison after serving six months in a child sexual abuse case. Morris pleaded guilty to five charges last October, and he and the church still face a litany of legal issues in civil court that arose after the allegations were made public in 2024.
Church officials on Tuesday declined to comment regarding Morris’ release.
This story was originally published April 1, 2026 at 9:31 PM.
