Samuel Moore

Samuel Moore was born and raised in the coal mining community of Gary in McDowell County. As a teenager, he moved with his family to Bluefield, Virginia, where he graduated from Graham High School.

He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Education from Bluefield State College and a master’s degree in Educational Administration from Marshall University. He began teaching in the Cabell County public school system in 1986 at Guyandotte Elementary School and served as the assistant principal of Spring Hill Elementary School. He also was a junior high school and high school basketball coach,

In 2001, Moore received prestigious National Classroom Teacher Award from the Milken Family Foundation.

He is actively involved in the community, serving on numerous boards, commissions, and committees. They include the Board of Governors for Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital; Cabell County Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Board; president of the City of Huntington Civil Service Police Commission; Board of Directors for the Cabell Huntington Hospital Hoops Family Hospital Foundation; Cabell County Re-Entry Council; and Board of Governors for Marshall University.

He is the pastor at Full Gospel Assembly in Huntington where he has served since 1983. At the 2010 Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc. international Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bishop Moore was elected to the organization’s 64-member Executive Board of Bishops. He was subsequently assigned as Diocesan of Episcopal District 23 – the West Virginia and East Tennessee Council of the P.A. and W., Inc.

Moore is immortalized on the mural on the Unlimited Future building on 8^th Avenue, joining co-founders of the small-business incubator and other community members.