Hello family, my name is John and I am new to Sandals.  I grew up in Riverside and recently returned a couple years ago after attending the San Francisco Advanced Institute of Ministry and spending time working with a wonderful ministry called the Prodigal Project.  I feel as if I am recently returning from a wilderness-type experience that God had to allow in my life in order to bring me to a much deeper place in Him.  I feel as if time is precious, and that the kingdom of God is the focus I want to uphold in my life.  The Lord has developed a special place in my heart for the body of Christ, and that is where I feel led to minister.  I look forward to getting to know all of you and I am excited about what the Lord has planned for this church.

"I thanks my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.  God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."