Samuel Rodriguez

Samuel Rodriguez Jr. ( born 29th September 1969) is an Evangelical Christian evangelist. He is a pastor, author, television personality, civil rights activist and movie producer. He is the founder and pastor of New Season Christian Worship Center. He is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC.

His parents are Puerto Rican but he was born in the USA.

Aged 16 he delivered his first sermon and quickly grew to be a leading and acclaimed evangelical preacher.

He gained a MA for Organization Leadership form Northwest University.

In 1992 he became an ordained minister in the assemblies of God, a Pentecostal fellowship. In 2000 he founded and is currently the president of NHCLC.

NHCLC is the largest Hispanic Evangelical organization in the world with 40,118. Latino Evangelical churches as members. It helps to cultivate a network of Latino leaders in the Christian community.

As a spokesperson for the Hispanic evangelicals he has featured as a speaker in the White House and congressional meetings.

In 2017 as president of NHCLC he was pleased to release the statement that the organization was pleased President Trump had decided ’ to return power to states to withhold federal funds from abortion providers’
( Read statement)

Samuel currently serves on the board for the National Association of Evangelicals

He is an author and his book You Are Next (2019) is a publishers weekly bestseller. In 2019 he was the executive producer of the film Flamin Hot.

In 2013 he was nominated for Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People.
In 2015 he was named as one of Newsmax’s Top 100 Christian leaders in America.
In 2020 he was recognized as one of Israel’s Top 50 Christian Allies.

Samuel is now in his early 50s and still has a great deal to offer to the Latino Christian Community and beyond.

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