WHAT WE CARE ABOUT MOST
COMMUNITY
We are one church in multiple locations, tied together with common vision, purpose, and values. At each of our Sunrise Church campuses, you will experience live music, preaching, and outreach localized to serve specific communities.
CONNECTION
We are a church OF small groups, not just a church WITH small groups. We believe that significant connection on a regular basis with other people is essential to your spiritual and mental health. Our small groups meet in homes to talk about the Bible, carry each other’s burdens, and share life through the victories and milestones.
RESTORATION
God created the world. We broke it. He can fix it. God is all about taking the broken things of this world and making them beautiful. Whether it is marital problems, relational drama, family crises, addictions, or other forms of loss, we believe that God can bring beauty from the ashes through honest conversation, hard work, and applying God’s Word to our lives.
TRUTH
Our only hope in an ever-changing world, is to hope in a never-changing God. We believe that truth is not just a set of facts and rules to know and to follow, but Truth is a Person (Jesus) that can be known and experienced through the reading and applying of the Bible. Culture changes, methods change, but one thing that will always remain the same is the TRUTH of Jesus Christ revealed to us in the Bible.
DIVERSITY
At Sunrise Church, we don’t TOLERATE diversity we CELEBRATE diversity. Our community is not about democrats or republicans, vaccinating or not vaccinating, mask or no mask, but uniting under the banner of Jesus Christ. We affirm that the family of God consists of different skin colors, financial statuses, and cultural backgrounds. Regularly interacting with one another expands our minds and our hearts, and ultimately helps us look more like Jesus.
GRACE
There is nothing you can do to make God love you any more than He already does. And there is nothing you can do to make God love you any less. We desire to reflect that characteristic of God by the way we love people and accept whatever baggage you may bring into our Sunrise Church community. Whether you have been going to church your whole life, or you are afraid the ceiling will cave in when you walk through the doors, we hope you experience a God who welcomes you as you are and desires to grow you into who you could be as you follow Him.
ACTION
We want to take risks to live out what we say we believe. If we say we care about the poor, then we want to do something about it. If we say we care about the refugee or the immigrant, then we want to do something about it. Sharing the love of Jesus moves beyond our words into the way we spend our time, our money and our lives.
STEVE GARCIA
LEAD PASTOR
My heart for Sunrise Church is that we would be a church that impacts lives. I don’t want us to just be a building people drive past, but a body of people who step outside our walls and impact the community. I want Sunrise to be the kind of church that meets people in the most desperate and broken places and walks with them as we share the hope of Jesus Christ. I want Sunrise to be the kind of church that cares about people on the other side of the globe, praying for and helping those in poverty, in persecution, and in peril. I want Sunrise Church to be the kind of place where entire families will be encouraged and challenged by the transforming power of God’s Word. If you want these things to be true of your life then come join our community of believers here at Sunrise Church!
EXECUTIVE TEAM
David Gomez
Executive Pastor of Missions & Marketing
Moises Bejarano
Executive Pastor of Worship and Campus Ministries
John Hill
Executive Pastor of Discipleship & Campus Development
Samantha Jones
Executive Director of Operations
MISSIONS & MARKETING TEAM
Hailee Heim
Community Engagement Specialist
Breanna Ulsh
Digital Marketing Coordinator
Marisela Moreno
Communications Assistant
Ceasar Cassell
Safety/Peace Center Support
WORSHIP & CAMPUS MINISTRIES TEAM
Oscar Villalta
Banning Spanish Campus Pastor
Erik Wade
Banning Campus Pastor
Jessica Hayes Maniquis
Banning Administrative Assistant
John Peter Iniguezsalazar
Spanish Campus Worship Leader
Yoko Redfern
Spanish Administrative Assistant
Rachel Hill
Worship Arts Director
AJ Fealofai
Banning Worship Leader
Pagel Williams
Rialto Worship Arts Leader
Vanessa Palomares
Victorville Worship Arts Leader
Jessica Moran
Ontario Worship Leader
Vincent Garcia
Online Campus Coordinator
DISCIPLESHIP & CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT TEAM
David Gaunt
Care Pastor
Diondre McBride
Discipleship Pastor
Blanca Mendiola
Rialto Administrative Assistant
Graciela Magaña
Kids Ministry Team Leader
Carlo Mendoza
Victorville Campus Pastor
Paula Cassell
Central Director of Women's Ministry
Deb Gaunt
Next Gen Director
OPERATIONS TEAM
Diana Alvarado
Human Resources Director
Teresa Gonzalez
Accounts Receivable
George Keach
Facilities Director
Juan Escobar
Environmental Services
Gordon Chason
Facilities Assistant
Miguel Gutierrez
Environmental Services
Craig King
Tech Director
Louie Segura
Banning Campus AV and Tech Support
Our Beliefs
Discover the beliefs of Sunrise Church.
At Sunrise Church we have a statement of faith that we believe in from the Souther Baptist Convention. You may view the statement of faith by clicking HERE.
*This is available in multiple languages.
We believe that the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God, in its entirety, both the Old and New Testaments, and without error in the original manuscripts, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and that it has supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct. (John 17:17; Romans 15:4; II Timothy 3:16-27; II Peter 1:19-21)
We believe there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit; that they are equal in every divine perfection; and that they execute distinct, but harmonious offices in the work of creation, providence and redemption. (Matthew 28:19; John 1:1-4; II Corinthians 13:14; Hebrews 9:14; Genesis 1:26)
We believe in God, the Father, an infinite personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power and love. We believe that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, that He saves from sin and spiritual death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ. (John 3:16-17; John 4:24; John 17:5)
We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles and teaching. We believe in His substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, future return for His Church, and personal visible return to earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. (Isaiah 7:14; John 1:14; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:2-3; I John 1:7; I Thessalonians 4:16-17; Revelation 19:11-16)
We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment; and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ, and that He is an abiding helper, teacher, and guide. (John 14:25; 16:7-15; Romans 8:14-17; Ephesians 1:13,14)
We believe that all men are sinners by nature and by choice and are, therefore, under condemnation. We believe that those who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord are saved from the penalty of sin, born again unto eternal life by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, and brought into personal fellowship with God. We believe that this salvation is a free gift from God, effected upon the basis of the shed blood of Jesus Christ alone, that it is given by grace and received by faith, and that apart from Jesus Christ, salvation is impossible. (John 1:12,13; John 3:3; John 3:16,17; Acts 4:12; 20:21; Ephesians 2:1-9; Titus 3:5)
We believe that the universal church is composed of all born again believers, beginning at the day of Pentecost and continuing on through the end of this present age, and that the universal church will in heaven be the “Bride of Christ”; that the local church is composed of born again believers who have voluntarily united together for the purposes of worshipping God, ministering to the saints (fellow believers), evangelizing the world, and discipling new believers. (Matthew 16:16-18; Acts 2:38-41; Ephesians 2:19-22, 5:25-27; Matthew 28:18-20)
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that Christian Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the Name of the triune God. We believe that the Lord’s Supper was instituted by Christ for commemoration of His death. We believe that the two ordinances should be observed and administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2:41; 8:38,39; Romans 6:3-5; I Corinthians 11:23-32)
We believe that every human being is created to have direct communication with God, and is responsible to God alone in all matters of faith; that each local church is independent and must be free from interference by an ecclesiastical or political authority; that, therefore, church and state must be kept separate as having different functions, each fulfilling its duties free from dictation or patronage of the other. (Matthew 22:21-22; Acts 4:19, 29; Romans 13:7; I Peter 2:9)
We believe in the personal and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth and the establishment of His kingdom. We believe in the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the endless suffering of the lost. (Matthew 25:31-46; John 5:28-29; II Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 20:1-15)
We believe that Christians should live by faith, yielded to and empowered by the Holy Spirit, for the glory of God and the well being of their fellow man, that their conduct should be righteous in the world, that they should be faithful stewards of their time, talents and possessions, and that they should seek to develop for themselves and others the full stature of maturity in Christ. (Matthew 5:16; II Corinthians 9:6-8; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 2:14-16; Colossians 3:17-23; I Thessalonians 5:17-18)