Scheduled to speak:

Thusday
August 10, 2000
10:00 a.m.
RCA Dome

Samuel Huddleston
Pastor, Lighthouse Covenant Fellowship, Benicia, Calif.

At 13, Samuel Huddleston ran away from home and got involved with drugs, alcohol and crime. He ended up in state prison by 17, serving a five-years-to life sentence. Upon his release, he attended Bethany College and eventually received his Master’s Degree in Marriage, Family & Child Counseling from Azusa Pacific University.

For seven years, Huddleston was the youth pastor of Church on the Hill in Vallejo, Calif. But in 1988, he went back to work in the prisons as the Executive Director of Match-2 Prisoner Outreach, a statewide prison visitation program that matches prisoners and wards (youth) with volunteers of the same sex from the outside for one-on-one visitation.

Huddleston returned to pastoral ministry in 1993 and started a Bible study in his home with his wife, Linda. This became the nucleus of the church he now pastors known as Lighthouse Covenant Fellowship in Benicia, Calif.

Since January of 1998, Huddleston has been the Dean of Students at Bethany Bible College in Santa Cruz, Calif. He has authored one book on his experiences titled Five Years to Life. He has also written numerous articles.

Huddleston and his wife have three married children and four grandchildren. All of their children live in Benicia, Calif. and attend the church their parents pastor.