About our Founder/President
Dr. Pete Sanchez, Jr. — teacher, pastor, worship leader and songwriter.
Dr. Pete Sanchez
From 2017 to 2022, Dr. Pete served as Executive Pastor of Worship at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He currently invests his time in writing, teaching, and mentoring engaged and newly married couples at Communion of Saints Church (formerly New Life Downtown) in downtown Colorado Springs, where he also serves as an elder.
From 2013 to 2016, Dr. Pete served as a teaching professor and Executive Vice President of Academics at The King’s University at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas. Prior to this role, he was a full professor and Executive Vice President of Academics at Visible Music College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Between 1999 and 2011, Dr. Pete served as Vice President for Integrity Music and Dean of the Integrity Worship Institute in Mobile, Alabama, an on-campus and online training school for pastors, worship leaders, and artists. During this same period (2006–2011), he also served as Assistant Professor of Church Music and Worship Leadership at the University of Mobile. In partnership with Integrity Music, he helped develop and lead the university’s undergraduate worship leadership program.
Dr. Pete was a regular guest instructor and conference pastor for Integrity Media’s Seminars4Worship regional conferences. His international work with Integrity provided opportunities to train pastors and worship leaders in the Netherlands, Italy, Malaysia, England, Wales, Russia, Armenia, Cyprus, Taiwan, Belgium, Uruguay, and Brazil. As the composer of the well-known worship song “I Exalt Thee,” he also served as worship leader for the Integrity Hosanna! Music recording of the same title.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music and Christianity from Houston Baptist University and both a Master of Divinity (Biblical Languages) and Doctor of Ministry from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Pete has served as an adjunct professor for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Houston campus), Regent University, Liberty University, Columbia Southern University, and The King’s College and Seminary. He has also been a guest instructor at Continental Theological Seminary in Brussels, Belgium.
A native of Houston, Texas, Dr. Pete brings more than 50 years of local, national, and international ministry experience. Throughout his career, he has served churches in a variety of roles, including youth minister, music director, worship leader, associate pastor, and senior pastor.
Dr. Pete and his wife, Karen, reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where they are active members of Communion of Saints Church. Married for 52 years, they have two married children: a son, Scott, and his wife, Katharine, with their sons Caden, Isaiah, and Joshua; and a daughter, Elita Friesen, and her husband, Ryan, with their sons Noah, Jackson, and Seth, and daughter Macy Jo.
Gabriel Music Incorporated
Gabriel Music Inc. was founded in 1991 by songwriter, worship leader, and pastor-teacher Pete Sanchez, Jr.
The company name is based upon the biblical text, Luke 1:19, in which the angel Gabriel declares these words to Zacharias, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the Presence of God . . . .”
GMI exists to steward, curate, and administrate the worship music and teaching of Dr. Pete Sanchez and others like him whose lives and creative works reflect the presence of God, strengthen the local church, and promote the glory of God around the world.