Professional

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.”

One of Lon Woodrum’s unpublished novels inspired him to re-write the book, which he titled, “THE LONG GOSPEL ROAD.”

Other books include, “Silver Threads Among the Gold,” “Jaunts Through Job,” “If I Tell You I’m A Poet, I’m Not Bragging, Only Confessing,” “Ballads From the Book,” and “Chapel Rhymes.”

Of his many recordings, two received top billing in Billboard Magazine in New York, and one in Record World Magazine, in Nashville.

His autobiography, “God Is Love: No Matter Which Way the Wind Blows,” was published a number of years ago. A newer version would have to include not only his bout with cancer in 1975, and the subsequent article in “The Saturday Evening Post,” “Life After Cancer,” January/February 1989.

Currently

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.