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Samuel Rodriguez
Samuel Rodriguez is an American Evangelical Christian leader raised by Puerto Rican parents in the United States. He is a pastor, movie producer, author, and civil rights activist. He is the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
At age 16, Rodriguez delivered his first sermon. He soon gained acclaim as an evangelical preacher. In 1992, he became an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination. In 2000, he founded the Hispanic Evangelical Christian organization National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC/CONEL).
Rodriguez became a member of the board of the National Association of Evangelicals in 2006.
In June 2016, Rodriguez's book Be Light reached number 1 on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List. You Are Next, released in 2019, reached the fourteenth position on Publishers Weekly's hardcover nonfiction frontlist sales chart.
Rodriguez was an executive producer of the 20th Century Fox motion picture Breakthrough, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song and received a GMA Dove Award for Inspirational Film of the Year.
Rodriguez was an executive producer of the Fox Searchlight film Flamin' Hot, a biopic about the man behind Flamin' Hot Cheetos. The film was produced by DeVon Franklin of Franklin Entertainment and directed by Eva Longoria. The film became Fox Searchlight Pictures' most-watched streaming movie of all time. "The Fire Inside" from Flamin' Hot was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2024.
During the George W. Bush administration, Rodriguez advocated for bipartisan discussion on immigration reform. He was brought in as an advisor to President Bush and worked directly with the administration on its immigration reform efforts. Rodriguez later served in an advisory capacity for Presidents Obama and Trump. He participated in President Obama’s 2009 inaugural prayer service at Saint Johns Episcopal Church, reading from the Gospel of Luke. Rodriguez served on the President's Advisory Council for the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships initiative with the Fatherhood and Healthy Families Task Force and also on the Abortion Reduction Task Force (both under President Obama). Throughout Obama’s presidency, Rodriguez engaged the White House on immigration, faith-based initiatives, and Latino issues while raising concerns on theological and political matters such as religious liberty. In a 2008 NPR interview, Michel Martin called Rodriguez "one of the country's most influential religious leaders".
Rodriguez delivered an invocation at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. In his remarks, Rodriguez read from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. On Inauguration Day, Rodriguez was interviewed by CNN. Rodriguez met with Trump administration officials to discuss a comprehensive immigration reform measure that would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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Samuel Rodriguez
Samuel Rodriguez is an American Evangelical Christian leader raised by Puerto Rican parents in the United States. He is a pastor, movie producer, author, and civil rights activist. He is the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
At age 16, Rodriguez delivered his first sermon. He soon gained acclaim as an evangelical preacher. In 1992, he became an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination. In 2000, he founded the Hispanic Evangelical Christian organization National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC/CONEL).
Rodriguez became a member of the board of the National Association of Evangelicals in 2006.
In June 2016, Rodriguez's book Be Light reached number 1 on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List. You Are Next, released in 2019, reached the fourteenth position on Publishers Weekly's hardcover nonfiction frontlist sales chart.
Rodriguez was an executive producer of the 20th Century Fox motion picture Breakthrough, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song and received a GMA Dove Award for Inspirational Film of the Year.
Rodriguez was an executive producer of the Fox Searchlight film Flamin' Hot, a biopic about the man behind Flamin' Hot Cheetos. The film was produced by DeVon Franklin of Franklin Entertainment and directed by Eva Longoria. The film became Fox Searchlight Pictures' most-watched streaming movie of all time. "The Fire Inside" from Flamin' Hot was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2024.
During the George W. Bush administration, Rodriguez advocated for bipartisan discussion on immigration reform. He was brought in as an advisor to President Bush and worked directly with the administration on its immigration reform efforts. Rodriguez later served in an advisory capacity for Presidents Obama and Trump. He participated in President Obama’s 2009 inaugural prayer service at Saint Johns Episcopal Church, reading from the Gospel of Luke. Rodriguez served on the President's Advisory Council for the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships initiative with the Fatherhood and Healthy Families Task Force and also on the Abortion Reduction Task Force (both under President Obama). Throughout Obama’s presidency, Rodriguez engaged the White House on immigration, faith-based initiatives, and Latino issues while raising concerns on theological and political matters such as religious liberty. In a 2008 NPR interview, Michel Martin called Rodriguez "one of the country's most influential religious leaders".
Rodriguez delivered an invocation at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. In his remarks, Rodriguez read from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. On Inauguration Day, Rodriguez was interviewed by CNN. Rodriguez met with Trump administration officials to discuss a comprehensive immigration reform measure that would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.