| Samantha Evans | |||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Samantha Evans | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | April 12, 1967 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Adelaide, Australia | ||||||||||
| Occupation: | Worship leader, singer, songwriter, pastor | ||||||||||
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Samantha Evans is an Australian Pentecostal Christian worship leader and singer-songwriter who primarily writes praise and worship songs.[1] She is the founder and Senior pastor at Planetshakers Church, alongside her husband Russell Evans.[2] [3]
In 1997, Samantha Evans began the journey which is now known as Planetshakers Church with her husband Russell. She has served her local church as co-lead pastor in Melbourne where the first Planetshakers Church was started in 2004 and has grown to more than 12,000 members.[4] [5]
Evans is co-founder, worship leader of the Planetshakers band[6] [7] that was formed in 1997.[8] [9] The band, through the church, has a record label, Planetshakers Ministries International.[10] [11] [12]
Samantha Evans grew up in a Catholic family. At age 16, she suffered family abandonment by her father. After finishing her senior year of high school an aunt began to talk to her about a personal relationship with Jesus and she converted to evangelical Christianity. She began to attend a small Assemblies of God church weekly. She met her husband Russell at the church.[13] Samantha Evans married Russell Evans in 1992 and together they have two children Jonathan and Aimee.[14]