For Rev. Sandie Richards, the sacred is located within the bonds of community, and expressed in and through the ways in which we as the human community care for one another. She is a collaborative leader; she loves diversity and its challenges. She is dynamic, passionate, warm-hearted, and fun.

Rev. Sandie Richards received her Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, specializing in urban mission. She was first ordained as a United Methodist Pastor in 1993. 

The United Methodist tradition is one of worship, study, and action; Rev. Richards’ faith in action has led her to become an advocate for living wages, affordable housing, freedom to marry, fair treatment of immigrants, and help for the homeless. She is recognized as one of Los Angeles’s premier interfaith leaders for social justice.

Her sermon style is warm, compassionate, and interactive. She believes that the most important sermon you hear on a Sunday morning is the one you preach to yourself, as your own thoughts and ideas are stimulated by hers and by others in the congregation.

 “The sermon,” she says, “is one part of a conversation that is going on all the time in the congregation and in the broader community.”

For Rev. Richards, the sacred is located within the bonds of community, and expressed in and through the ways in which we as the human community care for one another. She is a collaborative leader; she loves diversity and its challenges. She is dynamic, passionate, warm-hearted, and fun.

Rev. Richards lives in Los Angeles with her husband Bill and their son Woody.