Pastor Sam is the lead and founding pastor at Bridge Fellowship Church in New Hyde Park, NY. He is ordained from The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), and he is passionate about working with young adults and families to help discover and develop identities, passions, and dreams in the Lord. His mission is to “walk” with others as they seek to understand who they are to embrace the path that God has laid out for them. Although imperfect, he strives to become “a man after God’s own heart” (Acts 13:22).

 

He graduated from Nyack College in 2007 with a Bachelor’s Degree in accounting and minor in Pastoral Ministry. At Nyack, Pastor Sam was compelled to full-time ministry and began his work with youth at a local church serving as a youth pastor at the age of 20. He received his Master of Divinity (M.Div) from Alliance Theological Seminary in 2010 and is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in the State of New York and received a Master of Science in Education degree for Mental Health Counseling at Hunter College in 2019.

 

Pastor Sam was born in Seoul, Korea and was raised in Istanbul, Turkey as a missionary child. He lived in Korea, Turkey, and Germany before settling in New York in 2003.

 

He is married to his beautiful and wonderful wife, Jessica, and is a loving father of their two children, Nolan and Norah.