About the Pastor

(In the Picture, from left -- Linda Fuller, President Jimmy Carter, Roslyn Carter, Millard Fuller and Sam Raj)

Samuel Raj was born in Chennai, India to missionary parents who still work among the slums and fishermen villages in Tamil Nadu. Sam was called to ministry when he was the 5th Youth Ambassdor for India in 1999. During the Youth Ambassadorship Sam represented India in the United States, Canada, El Salvador, Cost Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras. He also had the previlage of dialoguing with the President of Honduras, the President of Costa Rica, the members of the legislature in these Central American countries and has spoken few those legislatures and a few other States in the US including Hawaii.

Though Sam decided to be an Ambassador for Christ rather than being an Ambassodor to one nation, the tussel with God on not serving in the front lines in ministry has always been there. Thats when Sam joined Habitat for Humanity International in its headquarters in Americus, Georgia in 2001. Habitat is usally associated with the former President Jimmy Carter. There he has served in the IT/Web department and later in the Disaster Response Office as the Technical Researcher.

Sam also founded The Daily Bread Communications company to serve as the IT provider to many ministries and coporates around the world some of them include CSI Madras Diocesse, Assembles of God (Pastor Mohan's Church in Chinnamalai), Boston Harbour, CallForever Telecoms, Vidhya Sagar Educational Institutions, Indian Hockey Federations, etc...

In 2006 Sam was appointed as the Director of IT at the Fuller Center for Housing founded by Millard Fuller. Though everything that Sam did was blessed, his calling was to serve directly in the Kingdom building and be involved in ministry. Finally, listening to God's will, Sam resigned from the Fuller Center in June 2008 and came into full time ministry.

In August 2009 Sam joined Druid Hills Baptist Church as a Minister in training and is also a student at McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University Atlanta - Chamblee. At Mercer, Sam studies Theology, the History of the Church, Missions, Evangelism, Spiritual Formations, Old & New Testament, Ethics, Preaching, Mentoring, Public Policies in Public Orgs, Pastoral Care and the Ancient languages of Hebrew & Greek.

The education that Sam pursues is research oriented and with the grace of God these tools have been useful in preparing sermons and speaches. Sam is invited by several denominations to speak at their Churches and he glorifies God in doing so.

In 2009 Sam joined the First Tamil Church of Atlanta to serve as its Pastor. He is happily married to his sweetheart Sharmi, who is a Doctoral student of Disaster Management. They are blessed with the adorable Hanna Karen who would make friends in a jiff.

Come listen to Sam's testimony and life story to learn how God has been miraculously work in his life ever since.

Visit his website to know more http://www.samuelrajmoses.org/