Pastor Stephen and Jenilee Samuel
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Pastors Stephen & Jenilee Samuel serve as lead pastors of Community Church in Orange, Texas. They carry a passionate calling to see lives transformed by the presence of Jesus. Stephen’s writing, teaching and global missions experience moves believers to push beyond nominal faith and pursue a life of following Jesus.
Since 2005, Stephen and Jenilee have championed a global hope to raise up missionaries and train believers through short-term mission trips. Through Free Life Missions, they partnered with orphanages, ministry training centers, Bible schools and churches in several nations.
Jenilee, called to ministry since her early teens, brings a deep discipleship strength from her background in college ministry and currently leads the Java with Jen Podcast that reaches into many nations with the good news of the gospel.
Together with their four sons, they are pursuing the vision of equipping the next generation and reaching communities that are closed to the gospel.