Leadership

Pastor Samples was born and raised in Ripley, West Virginia, where he trusted Christ as Savior and surrendered his life to God's call to preach the gospel.  Pastor Samples trained for the ministry in Knoxville, Tennessee at the Crown College of the Bible and Crown Seminary. He and his family came to Florida in 2018 after Grace Baptist Church called him to be their pastor.  Since that time, the ministry of Grace Baptist Church has purchased acreage, built a beautiful church building for the ministry, and are continuing to launch new efforts to reach out into the world with the Gospel of Christ.