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Our Executive Director

Rev. Dean Gavaris
(pictured with his wife Lorena and son Jeremy)

As Executive Director of the Gateway Pregnancy Centers, Rev. Dean Gavaris is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the centers.

Email: dean@gateway.org

Born:  Springfield, Massachusetts             May 15, 1951

Married to Lorena (1980)  One son, Jeremy (born 1986)

Dean Gavaris makes his home in Union, NJ with his wife, Lorena, and their teenage son, Jeremy. He attended Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY and holds an Associates degree in Business Administration from Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY. He is a graduate of Northeastern Bible College, Essex Fells, NJ with a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Literature. Dean has taken numerous courses in counseling and was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1993 at Clinton Hill Baptist Church, (now Crossroads Christian Fellowship), in Union, NJ. 

From 1986 to 1990, he was the Executive Director of Archway Pregnancy Center, Elizabeth, NJ. In 1991, he founded Gateway Pregnancy Center, Irvington, NJ. Archway merged into Gateway in 1998. Dean serves as Executive Director of the combined centers.

Dean is recipient of the Ermy Clardy Craven Award, from the Life Education and Resource Network, the largest African-American evangelical pro-life association in America. In 1997, he received the Guardian of Life Award from the New Jersey State Right to Life. He preaches regularly from the Scriptures on the sanctity of human life in churches throughout northern New Jersey, shares about chastity with church youth, and addresses men's breakfasts, church senior groups, etc.

Evangel Baptist Church, Springfield, NJ is his home church, where he has served on the Board of Elders, preached, taught and led various committees.

Education :

o Northeastern Bible College, Essex Fells, NJ (1983) Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Literature

o Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY (1978) Associate Degree,

       Business Administration

o Further studies in counseling at Regional Seminary, Zarephath, NJ (1987)

o Also attended Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (1970-1973) no degree earned

Ordained : 1993

Gateway is a Christian 501c-3 non-profit ministry offering free pregnancy tests, limited ultrasound for pregnancy verification, boyfriend counseling, post abortion counseling, referrals to local hospitals and physicians and physical help (new born baby items)

We speak regularly in local churches on the biblical view of the sanctity of human life, to church youth groups about the need for chastity and to parents on how to teach chastity to their teens. We

give presentations at Christian schools, colleges, on the radio and, from time to time, on television. We produce a monthly and a quarterly newsletter and write numerous pamphlets on various topical subjects related to teen pregnancy.

Gateway is supported through individual and church giving, an annual Stewardship Banquet, and various smaller fundraisers ( an annual walk-a-thon, a baby bottle campaign, etc.)

Our ministry challenge is from Esther 4:14: “ "For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise .. from another place. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?"