REVEREND DR. SAMUEL WRIGHT AND FIRST LADY PATRICIA WRIGHT ARE CELEBRATING THE REVEREND’S 15TH PASTORAL ANNIVERSARY. REVEREND DR. WRIGHT WAS CALLED TO SERVE AS PASTOR OF THE UNION CHAPEL CHURCH IN UNION, NEW JERSEY IN OCTOBER 2000. DURING HIS SERVICE HE HAS WORKED TO ESTABLISH SEVERAL MINISTRIES SERVING MEN, WOMEN, YOUNG ADULTS, NEW BELIEVERS AND COUPLES.
REV. DR. WRIGHT IS THE ELDEST OF FIVE CHILDREN AND WAS RAISED IN SPRINGFIELD, NEW JERSEY. HIS CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE BEGAN AT NINE YEARS OLD. IN PREPARATION FOR MINISTRY SERVICE, REV. DR. WRIGHT ATTENDED NORTHEASTERN BIBLE COLLEGE, ESSEX FALLS, NEW JERSEY; PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES, LIBERTY CORNERS, NEW JERSEY; OMEGA BIBLE COLLEGE, SWARTZ, LOUISIANA WHERE HE RECEIVED A BACHELOR’S OF THEOLOGY DEGREE; NEW BRUNSWICK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, RECEIVING A MASTER OF THEOLOGY AND NC COLLEGE OF THEOLOGY, WILMINGTON, NC RECEIVING A DOCTORATE OF THEOLOGY.
REV. DR. WRIGHT WAS ORDAINED TO THE DIACONATE MINISTRY IN 1980. HE WAS LICENSED TO PREACH IN 1991. IN 1995 HE WAS ORDAINED FOR PULPIT MINISTRY. PASTOR WRIGHT IS AN ASTUTE PASTOR/TEACHER, PREACHER, PRAISE LEADER AND MUSICIAN. HE SERVES AS A CONFERENCE AND MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER. PASTOR WRIGHT IS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN COUNSELORS, BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN COUNSELORS AND THE UNITED CLERGY OF VAUXHALL, NEW JERSEY AND VICINITY.
PASTOR WRIGHT IS MARRIED TO HIS MINISTRY PARTNER, FIRST LADY PATRICIA AND TOGETHER THEY ARE THE PROUD PARENTS OF FIVE – TONI, PHILLIP, STEPHEN, JENNIFER, JESSICA AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN.
PASTOR WRIGHT IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE NEED FOR THE CHURCH TO BE THE CHURCH AS GOD HAS CALLED HER TO BE, ACCORDING TO (MATTHEW 28:19, 20 AND ACTS 1:8). HE FIRMLY RELIES ON (ZECHARIAH 4:6B… NOT BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT SAYS THE LORD OF HOST).
NOW, THEREFORE, ON BEHALF OF THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE, I, MANUEL FIGUEIREDO, MAYOR OF THE TOWNSHIP OF UNION, IN THE COUNTY OF UNION, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, HEREBY CONGRATULATE REV. DR. SAMUEL M. WRIGHT, JR. AND FIRST LADY PATRICIA AS THEY CELEBRATE HIS 15TH PASTORAL ANNIVERSARY AND WISH HIM CONTINUED SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS IN THE YEARS AHEAD.