Fort Worth / Texas / United States
Jim and Samantha Herring are the founders and Senior Pastors of Abundant Life Family Church in Fort Worth, Texas a thriving, dynamic, and multi-cultural church located in the northeast corner of Fort Worth, Texas. Jim and Samantha were originally from eastern North Carolina where they met and married. Shortly after marriage, they felt the calling of God to leave their hometown in order to receive in-depth ministerial training from Rhema Bible Training Center in in Tulsa OK Pastor Jim graduated from Rhema in 1993, specializing in pastoral ministry. After graduation, they moved to Texas where they served in many areas and were intricately involved in ministry work. In 2001, God began to place on Jim and Samanthas heart to start a church in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. With a desire to see people restored, discipled, and empowered for ministry, they founded Abundant Life Family Church In 2004, we purchased our current church home and held our first service in February. Since its inception, many have been born again, discipled in the faith, and added to the church. Jim and Samantha are both gifted Bible teachers who minister Gods Word in a passionate, humorous, and practical way. Their ultimate goal is to minister restoration to the hurting and equip the saints for the work of the ministry and the edifying of the body of Christ ( Ephesians 4: 12, NKJV ). Pastor Jim also holds a Bachelors of Science in Church Ministry from Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas.
