Matt Brown
Co-Founder and Lead Pastor, Sandals Church
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Matt Brown
Pastor Matt Brown is the lead pastor of Sandals Church in Riverside, California. Sandals Church began in 1997 when Pastor Matt and his wife Tammy set out to create a church where people could be real with themselves, God and others. From its first meeting in the Brown’s living room with eight people, Sandals Church has since grown to reach more than 30,000+ people digitally each weekend with twelve locations across the Inland Empire and Central Valley. Pastor Matt is deeply passionate about the vision of authenticity and seeing people come to know a God who loves them.
Dan Zimbardi
Executive Pastor, Sandals Church
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Dan Zimbardi
Pastor Dan Zimbardi has been the Executive Pastor of Sandals Church, one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in America, for the past eight and a half years. Dan spent twenty-two years as an entrepreneur and corporate executive who has worked with some of the most dynamic brands in the world; including Google, Nike, Facebook and Burton Snowboards. Dan’s passion is to train and develop leaders both in ministry and the marketplace to do their life’s best work.
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Jeff Henderson
Entrepreneur, Public Speaker
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Jeff Henderson
Jeff Henderson is an entrepreneur, speaker, pastor and business leader. Jeff was named by Forbes Magazine as one of twenty speakers you shouldn’t miss. Prior to serving as a pastor, Jeff worked as a marketing executive with Chick-fil-A, Inc., Jeff founded The FOR Company, which helps organizations grow using the FOR strategy.
Tony Morgan
Founder & Lead Strategist at The Unstuck Group
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Tony Morgan
Tony is founder and lead strategist of The Unstuck Group, a company that helps leaders grow healthy churches by guiding them through experiences that focus vision, strategy and action. For 14 years, Tony served on the senior leadership teams at West Ridge Church in Dallas, Georgia, NewSpring Church in South Carolina, and Granger Community Church in Indiana. He’s written several books, as well as articles that have been featured with the Willow Creek Association, Catalyst and Pastors.com. He writes about leadership regularly at tonymorganlive.com. His latest book, The Unstuck Church: Equipping Churches to Experience Sustained Health, is available from Thomas Nelson. He also hosts a weekly podcast called The Unstuck Church Podcast.
Tony Amaradio
Founder and Chief Strategist for Select Portfolio Management, Inc.
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Tony Amaradio
Tony is Founder and Chief Strategist for Select Portfolio Management, Inc. He is a visionary and innovator in the financial services industry. For more than 20 years, Tony was the host of his daily radio show “Market Talk. For the last several years Tony has followed his passion for devoting a third of his time to philanthropy and non-profit organizations.
tony.amaradio@selectportfolio.com
Tammy Brown
Co-Founder and Executive Director of Brand and Strategy, Sandals Church
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Tammy Brown
Tammy Brown is the wife of Pastor Matt Brown and co-founder of Sandals Church in Riverside, California where she serves as the Executive Director of Brand & Strategy. Along with encouraging the church to live out the vision to be real with self, God and others, Tammy has devoted herself to leading the women of Sandals Church in pursuing spiritual growth and relational kindness through Cultivate women’s ministry.
Jonathan Avila
CEO, Co-Founder of Stratos Fuel
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Jonathan Avila
is the Chief Executive officer of StratosFuel, Inc. StratosFuel, Inc is a renewable hydrogen production company that owns and operates refueling stations, production plants, and the fuel cell car-sharing company StratosShare.
jpa@stratosfuel.com
Frank Teruel
Technology Executive
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Frank Teruel
Frank is a Silicon Valley technology executive with 30+ years’ experience in venture backed start-up and tenured businesses. Frank is the COO of Adara and is a frequent speaker and thought leader on digital identities, cybersecurity, and internet fraud prevention topics.
fmtreal@gmail.com
Geoff Gouveia
Artist, Entrepreneur
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Geoff Gouveia
Geoff Gouveia is an artist whose style is known primarily in association with large-scale murals painted for corporations like facebook, Starbucks, Adidas and Coca-Cola, but has its roots inspired by whimsical literature.
Alexis Andra
Artist, Founder of The Shift Creative
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Alexis Andra
Alexis is the owner of The Shift Creative, a full service creative agency in Southern CA. They work with brands and conferences to elevate their events through experiential installations, stage design, and branded photo moments. Some of their clients include Nike Women, PopSugar, REVOLVE, Create and Cultivate, and Michaels.
alexis@theshiftcreative.com
Dr. Charles D. Sands
Provost, VP Academic Affairs, California Baptist University
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Dr. Charles D. Sands
Chuck currently serves as the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs (Chief Academic Officer) at California Baptist University. Prior to assuming this role, he served as the Founding Dean for the College of Health Science at CBU. In addition, Chuck is the Chief Operations Consultant and Chief Public Health Consultant for Chia Tai International Hospital in Jilin City, China.
csands@calbaptist.edu
Jeff Whye
Online Campus Pastor, Sandals Church
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Jeff Whye
Before coming to Sandals Church, Jeff spent ten years in the entertainment industry pursuing acting, doing voice-over narration, production, and stand-up, sketch and improv comedy. He also spent eight years in Christian higher ed. which involved producing Chapels at APU, teaching at AZ Christian Univ. and leading student life teams at GCU. His pastoral ministry makes up ten years as a student ministry pastor in SoCal, a teaching pastor in Phoenix, as well as an associate campus pastor at Central Christian Church in AZ. Jeff serves as the Online Campus Pastor at Sandals Church. His passions are topics of racial reconciliation, the plus side of differences in marriage and discovering your strengths.
Melody Workman
Executive Director of Story and Experience, Sandals Church
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Melody Workman
Melody Workman is passionate about real community and the power of the local church. Melody has the privilege of leading in her calling to create a dynamic worship environment and bring excellence to weekend services as the Story and Experience Executive at Sandals Church.
Brian Chelette
Executive Director of Network Services, Sandals Church
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Brian Chelette
Brian Chelette is an Executive Director for Sandals Church in Southern California. He has the honor of leading the People, Finance, Technology, and Digital Reach teams.
Todd McMichen
Director LifeWay Christian Resources | Generosity & Digital Giving
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Todd McMichen
Todd serves as the Director of Generosity and Digital Giving at LifeWay. He co-founded The Big Giving Fund, a family generosity initiative. He is an active author, blogger, speaker, strategist, and host of The Generosity Podcast.
Devo & Donna Martin
Entrepreneurs, Founders of JOYCO
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Devo & Donna Martin
Devo & Donna Martin have worked with youth for over 20 years in the Inland Empire and founded a non-profit organization called THE JOY COMPANY (aka JOYCO) to raise up student leaders who impact their school and community by connecting them to God, connecting them to a mentor, and connecting them to a vision for their lives.
Vivi Diaz
Youth Lead, Sandals Church
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Vivi Diaz
Vivi Diaz is the Youth Lead at Sandals Church Hunter Park. Vivi has a deep passion for seeing young people become who God has created them to be.
Avery Atchison
Young Adult Lead, Sandals Church
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Avery Atchison
Although new to full-time ministry, Avery Atchison has been attending Sandals Church since he was six years old. He is currently the Young Adult Lead, working with young adults, encouraging them to live out the vision of being real in groups.
Shane Critser
West Region Director for the North American Mission Board
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Shane Critser
Shane is the West Region Director and Los Angeles City Missionary for the North American Mission Board, AKA Send Network. His role is to oversee the church planting strategy for the West Region and implement the church planting strategy for Los Angeles.
Maria Zalesky
Area Director at Mission Increase Foundation
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Maria Zalesky
Maria Zalesky serves as the Area Director for the Inland Valleys region of Southern California. She has over 15 years of experience in fundraising in both the higher education and nonprofit sectors.
Seth Yelorda
Founder & CEO of VisionClarity360
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Seth Yelorda
Seth Yelorda is a Pastor, Leadership Coach, and Organizational Consultant. With over fourteen years of senior leadership experience Seth loves working with churches, schools, and nonprofits to improve operations, develop leaders, and discover vision so that they can be better positioned to make an impact in the community. His life mission is to help leaders to discover their Kingdom contribution.
Ron McCoy
Executive Director, ROGO Foundation
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Ron McCoy
Ron spent 20 years in the marketplace as a corporate executive and entrepreneur before joining the team as the Executive Director of the ROGO Foundation to help lead Sandals Church and start the Foundation with the goal of saving the local church, while better positioning the church to grow and reach more people with the gospel.
Mark Clifton
Senior Director of Replanting at the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention
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Mark Clifton
Mark Clifton is the Senior Director of Replanting at the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Mark has served as a pastor, church planter, church revitalizer, mission strategist, coach, and mentor to young leaders. He has planted and replanted numerous churches and has also served as a national and regional leader for church planting and missions.