WHO WE ARE

Pastor John comes from a background of affiliation with Chicano gangs and a Mexican cartel. He spent well over a decade as a drug dealer and hopeless heroin addict. After hitting rock bottom several times, he finally surrendered his life to Christ on a cement floor in a lonely prison cell at the New Mexico Department of Corrections. After the Lord encountered Pastor John in prison, he was voted in as inmate pastor.

John went through the Christ-centered Victory Outreach recovery home in Phoenix, AZ and the Urban Training Center in downtown Los Angeles, California. God not only gave John eternal life but also set him free from addiction and restored his mind. This man, who was once incoherent, graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology and Church Leadership from Central Bible College, Summa Cum Laude. He is several credits away from completing a Master’s Degree at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. He has served as Berean faculty at Global University, lead pastor, recovery home director, missionary/ church planter in Manila the Philippines, and prison evangelist. He is an endorsed correctional chaplain and Prison Fellowship Area Manager who continues to go back into prisons and jails with a message of Hope.

John and Hannah Alarid met at Central Bible College in 2011. They were married on December 25, 2013. John is from Albuquerque, New Mexico and Hannah was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Hannah graduated the Long Island Teen Challenge program in 2007 and served as staff at the women’s facility. After working in the Behavior Health field for several years, Hannah decided to go back to Evangel University to complete her Bachelors in Worship Leadership. During the past four years in Springfield, John and Hannah began to feel a passion to reach north Springfield with the love of Jesus.

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