{"id":15,"date":"2024-05-28T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:52:40","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Mike Gates. I am Christian writer, speaker and worship guitarist. I gave my life to Jesus in September 1995 after a radical encounter with God. That same year I married my wife Kim and also God called me into the ministry. Since then I have served in church leadership positions as a pastor, youth pastor, prison ministry, worship, media production and men\u2019s life\/circle groups. I love to travel and I have done ministry throughout the U.S., Jamaica, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife and I have 3 children and 7 grandchildren. We are co-founders of \u201cOpen Gates Ministries\u201d, a prophetic ministry with a vision to ignite hearts with the love of God. We both have a passion to see lives changed, saved, healed and delivered by God. I love spending time with my family, playing guitar, reading, and writing. My favorite scripture is Philippians 3:10 &#8220;that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,&#8221;. We attend church at <a href=\"http:\/\/jam.church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jesus Alive Ministries\">Jesus Alive Ministries<\/a> where we also serve on the worship team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am currently writing a memoir about my life with serving God. I believe that \u201cserving God can be quite the adventure. Thankfully the journey never ends\u2026\u201d. I also have plans for writing other Christian books and a children&#8217;s book series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Mike Gates. I am Christian writer, speaker and worship guitarist. I gave my life to Jesus in September 1995 after a radical encounter with God. That same year I married my wife Kim and also God called me into the ministry. Since then I have served in church leadership positions as a pastor, youth pastor, prison ministry, worship, media production and men\u2019s life\/circle groups. I love to travel and I have done ministry throughout the U.S., Jamaica, Canada and Mexico. My wife and I have 3 children and 7 grandchildren. We are co-founders of \u201cOpen Gates Ministries\u201d, a prophetic ministry with a vision to ignite hearts with the love of God. We both have a passion to see lives changed, saved, healed and delivered by God. I love spending time with my family, playing guitar, reading, and writing. My favorite scripture is Philippians 3:10 &#8220;that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,&#8221;. We attend church at Jesus Alive Ministries where we also serve on the worship team. I am currently writing a memoir about my life with serving God. I believe that \u201cserving God can be quite the adventure. Thankfully the journey never ends\u2026\u201d. I also have plans for writing other Christian books and a children&#8217;s book series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propheticroar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}