09/08/2026
'08 - Ryan Chong
What kept Ryan and his wife Sadie at Inspire wasn't anything flashy. It was the people. A friend invited them in, they got plugged into a group right away, and that community became the reason they stayed.
Years later, a message to business owners stuck with Ryan in a way he still talks about. Hearing that reminded Ryan of something simple: God is faithful even when the circumstances don't make sense. It gave him the courage to make a hard decision in his own life, trusting that the same God who provided for this church would provide for his family too.
That trust has been tested and proven again and again — Ryan's wife Sadie stays home with their kids, so every step of faith Ryan takes, he takes for both of them. And every time, he says, God has come through.
It's that same spirit — showing up, trusting God, and leaning on each other — that shows up all over this church family. One of Ryan's favorite memories is a small example: he offered to cook a couple of turkeys for Pastor Randy's Thanksgiving giveaway one year. It turned into 80 turkeys, cooked in an imu, with the whole church turning out to help — feeding well over a thousand plates that Thanksgiving. Not because one person did something impressive, but because a whole community said yes together.