Sammy Poole

Sammy Poole (b. June 21, 1942 in Augusta, Georgia USA, d. October 22, 2012 in Waxhaw, North Carolina USA) was the second son of Rev. Harvey Jordan Poole and Jennie Lucille (Harden) Poole. Gospel music very quickly became his first love at the age of four when he began singing on his father's local radio program, The Gospel Messenger. He attended Middle Georgia College where he was active in the school’s music program before feeling led to go directly into ministry. Sammy Poole is founder and President of Good Shepherd Ministries, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Charlotte, NC. His career has included 15 months in New York and Boston, with David Wilkerson and Teen Challenge. Sammy's travels have led him from musical ministries in America’s finest churches, to Madison Square Garden ... as well as into its nursing homes, rescue missions, ghettos, business and professional groups, as well as to the outcasts in prisons. He has traveled to Brazil with Men for Missions, to the Soviet Union to distribute Bibles, and he sang at the First Baptist Church of Kiev. In 1975, his prayer chapel “Chapel of Hope,” was open daily for a number of months at a local Holiday Inn, and among its visitors was rock music star, Bob Dylan. He has produced many albums for others, and has had numerous articles published. He and the late evangelist Dr. Lon Woodrum published several books of poems together, as well as Dr. Woodrum’s memoirs, “These I Remember.” Sammy's most recent health battle, Parkinson’s Disease, has made retirement from the road after driving more than a million miles in the music ministry, a necessity. His voice may still be heard, however, via recordings, on the Bible Broadcasting Radio Network.