Reverend samuel rodriguez biography

American evangelist (born 1969)

For the Venezuelan football player, see Samuel Rodríguez.

Samuel Rodriguez Jr. (born September 29, 1969) is an American Evangelical Christian leader born to Puerto Rican parents in the United States.^[3] He is a pastor, movie producer, author, civil rights activist and television personality.

He is the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.^[4]

Ministry

At age 16, Rodriguez delivered his first sermon. He quickly grew to be a leading and acclaimed evangelical preacher.^[5] In 1992, he became an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination.^[1] In 2000, he founded the HispanicEvangelical Christian organization National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC/CONEL).^[6]

Rodriguez became a member of the board of the National Association of Evangelicals in 2006.^[7]

Books and films

In June 2016, Rodriguez's