Filipino American Christian Fellowship of Austin Texas

OUR PASTOR

The Reverend Glenn Cañas Sampayan is a Presbyterian ordained minister-member of the Mission Presbytery (PCUSA). Before coming to the United States, he served for seventeen years of full-time pastoral local church assignment of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines churches—rural and urban. He was a resident chaplain at Baylor University Medical Center in downtown Dallas, Texas, and a pastor of the Mabuhay New Church Development (NCD), Dallas, Texas, shortly.  He was a graduate of Divinity School, Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines, a Presbyterian institution. He finished his Bachelor of Arts at the College of Maasin, Maasin, Southern, Leyte, Philippines; and his Master in Management at the Leyte Normal University, Tacloban City, Philippines.  He finished his Master of Divinity at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He is married to Keren Quinal Nuñez, and a father to two children – Arch and Glenn junior. He was a pulpit supply pastor at the Faith Community Church (PCUSA) in Corpus Christi, for more than three years, and then in January 2012, he was called and installed as the Pastor. As hard as it was for them to leave their ministry in the Philippines, Rev. Sampayan considers the call to develop a Filipino-American Worshiping Christian Community in Austin a gift and a divine privilege from God.