Sunday Service at The Sanctuary Chapel
We invite you to join us for non-denominational services in the serene setting of The Sanctuary Chapel every Sunday at 10:30am. Led by a rotating group of local pastors, each weekly service will have a duration of approximately 40 – 50 minutes, and free self-parking is available in The Sanctuary guest parking lot.
Offerings will be accepted during service, with all proceeds donated to a charity of the resort’s choosing.
| September 28th | Rev. Rich Robinson |
| October 5th | Dr. John G. Panagiotou |
| October 12th | Rev. Luciano Soto, Jr. |
| October 19th | Gabriela Soto |
| October 26th | Dr. John G. Panagiotou |
| November 2nd | Rev. Rich Robinson |
| November 9th | Rev. Luciano Soto, Jr. |
| November 16th | Gabriela Soto |
| November 23rd | Dr. John G. Panagiotou |
| November 30th | Rev. Luciano Soto, Jr. |
| December 7th | Rev. Rich Robinson |
| December 14th | Gabriela Soto |
| December 21st | Rev. Luciano Soto, Jr. |
| December 25th | Dr. John G. Panagiotou |
| December 28th | Rev. Luciano Soto, Jr. |
| January 4th | Rev. Rich Robinson |
Meet the Pastors
Gabriela Soto
Pastor Gabriela Soto has a professional music training background in Voice, Piano, Music Theory and Trumpet and attended Kent Christian College to major in Theology and Music. On the Ministry side, she received God’s calling to Minister in the word at age 16. Being invited to speak as a Conference Speaker and sing at various countries such as: Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, USA, Puerto Rico, Spain, Argentina & Panama. In 2013 Pastor Gabriela and her family relocated from NY to North Charleston to become the Senior Pastors of the Spanish Church “El Lugar De Su Gloria, UPCI”. She has been serving as a Police Chaplain with Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy since 2014.
In 2019 she was nominated to the Latin Grammy Awards in the category Best Christian Album of the Year.
Rev. Rich Robinson
Rev. Rich Robinson serves as the Senior Chaplain and Executive Director of the Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy, where he ministers with a team of crisis and community chaplains to approximately 50 first responder agencies in the Tri-County region. Rich is an ordained priest in the Lindisfarne Community and has served previously as a United Methodist Church pastor, and a Charleston City police officer.
Dr. John G. Panagiotou
Dr. Panagiotou is a theologian and scholar who has deep experience in pastoral ministry as an Orthodox Christian presbyter, denominational administrator, teacher at the university and seminary levels, preacher, and businessman in careers which have spanned over three decades. His research interest and teaching focus on the study of the early centuries of Christianity and on oikonomia (Christian stewardship). Dr. Panagiotou has taught on the faculties as a professor of New Testament, Biblical Greek, Church History, Patristics, and Theological Ethics at Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary, Erskine Theological Seminary, and Wheeling University.
Rev. Luciano Soto, Jr.
Rev. Luciano Soto, Jr., born in the Bronx, NY, to parents Rev. Luciano and Hilda Soto, Puerto Rico natives who migrated to the US in 1950. He became the Worship Leader in the church for over 10 years. In 2005, he married Gabriela Pérez Soto and they started the first Hispanic church in the town of Stratford, CT. In 2013 Rev. Soto and his family relocated to North Charleston, SC to become the Senior Pastor of the thriving Spanish church “El Lugar de Su Gloria, UPCI”. Being an ordained licensed minister with the United Pentecostal Church International, he joined the Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy in 2014. He has also been serving as a Spanish liaison for the Dignity Project in collaboration with the Summerville Police Department.
