Dr. Rev. Samuel was born in Suhag, in Southern Egypt in 1963. He grew up attending a village church several times a week. At the age of 15, he moved from the rural village to the urban area of Port Said next to the Suez Canal, where he became more actively involved in ministry, and where a small group of peers affirmed his gifts and encouraged him to consider a future full-time ministry. But it was not until he was 18 years-old when he first sensed God’s call to this service.
Upon completion of his secondary education, Samuel enrolled in the four-year Bachelor of Theology program at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC) 1981-1985. There he learned many skills through his studies, but it was the lives and ministry of some of his teachers that shaped him even more. Following seminary, Samuel entered the pastorate in 1986 in the First Presbyterian Church in Al-Tayeeba, a village in Upper Egypt, where he was ordained as a pastor in 1987, and ministered until he joined ETSC as an instructor in 1992.
While pastoring in Al-Tayeeba he trained the youth from which six are now ordained as pastors and another six are elders. The church established an NGO to develop the village through a preschool and medical clinics. This also raised the awareness towards child and health care in the village.
God blessed his ministry in Al-Tayeeba Church with tremendous growth very quickly as he trained church leaders, and he gained significant practical experience. Samuel’s time as a pastor greatly informed his teaching of courses on pastoral care and counseling at the seminary. He also offered numerous counseling sessions to seminary students and sometimes to their wives as well. He is credited with founding the Relationships and Training Department at ETSC. He served as The Dean for Relationships and Training from 2010–2020. He was head of the Practical Theology Department from 2008 through 2018.He has also been a member of the Academic Committee. In July 2023 Samuel assumed the presidency of ETSC.
He married Amgaad Samuel in 1990, and has a son Rofy, who was born in 1991, and a daughter, Lora who was born in 1997.
Samuel is a member of the following association:
Synod of the Nile
Ministry Engagements outside of ETSC:
Lay-people Training in Presbyteries (since 2004)
Continuing Education for pastors (since 2004)
Teaching at the Catholic Seminary (Principles of Counseling and Family Counseling, since 2011)
Clinical Pastoral Education, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, CPE, 2004-2005.
Thesis: Renewal of Urban Church Mission in the Coptic Evangelical Church.
M.A.R. in Pastoral Care, Dubuque Theological Seminary, 1996.
B.A. in History, Al-Minia University, 1991.
B.Th., Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, 1985.
كتب في المشورة الراعوية
صدر في سلسلة المشورة الرّاعويَّة
سلسلة مداخل ونظريات في المشورة الرّاعويَّة