The Experience Magazine: Fall 2021

‘You can’t help but want to tell others about a love like that’ Jay Sanders on being ful ly known and ful ly loved by God

By Bree Hayden

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When Jay Sanders picks up the phone, the joy of the Lord breaks through like the Tampa sunshine he and his family love so much, even in his simple, “Hey, sis! How’s it going?” We start chatting about life – his wife, Fina '10 &'13; their newborn twins, Justice and Jude; and their spunky 5-year-old foster daughter – and quickly

move on to work. Jay is the campus pastor for the University of South Florida. In the past, he served as a college pastor at Idlewild Baptist Church and as Dean of Students at the Florida campus of Word of Life Bible Institute. God’s call in his life is clear to him – his drive, in his words, is to “inspire the next generation to live full and die empty.”

Jay Sanders '09 & '10

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