Sam Gallucci

Sam Gallucci is the senior pastor at Embrace! Church in Oxnard, CA. He is also Founder and CEO of The Kingdom Center, which provides emergency shelter and transitional living assistance for at-risk women and children, and Embrace! Ministries, which helps migrant field workers and their families. Sam’s career began in 1981 when he was hired after college by IBM. Years later, Sam rose to Executive Vice President and General Manager of PeopleSoft CRM, one of the largest makers of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Sam would soon realize that material wealth left him unfulfilled, so he left the business world and began to follow his passion for helping others. In 2006 he became an Associate Pastor at Calvary Community Church in Westlake Village, CA. In 2007 he became Senior Pastor of The Harbor Missionary Church, and in 2009 he founded The Kingdom Center Ministries.

Through his pastoral work Sam saw how homelessness ruins lives and how government programs often make the problem worse. The creative business executive wanted to bring a revolutionary new approach to the crisis. To this day Sam remains the CEO of The Kingdom Center, continuing to battle homelessness by encouraging, equipping, and empowering Ventura County women and children caught in this struggle. He has three adult sons, who are all married, and seven grandchildren. Sam lives in Oxnard with his beautiful wife, Toni.