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Rialto Church Announces Merger With MegaChurch

Apr 30, 2010

Mitch Cariaga, left, is lead pastor of the Rialto church which is merging with the church pastored by Jay Pankratz (right).
Mitch Cariaga, left, is lead pastor of the Rialto church which is merging with the church pastored by Jay Pankratz (right).

Harvest Christian Church of Rialto, California, a Grace Brethren church whose pastor is Mitch Cariaga, has announced that they will be merging with Sunrise Church of Rialto as a campus ministry.  Their new name will be Sunrise Mission.  Sunrise Mission will remain a part of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches.

Pastor Jay Pankratz, a Grace Theological Seminary graduate, is Senior Pastor of Sunrise Rialto Church in Rialto California. Sunrise Church averages more than 5,000 in attendance during their weekend services and is a non-denominational multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-site church that reaches people for Christ.

Pastor Mitch Cariaga, also a graduate of Grace Theological Seminary, is Lead Pastor of Harvest Christian Church in Rialto, and also serves as the President of Title Trading, Qingdao, China.