Sammy Tabuena is a preacher's son and his mother is a Christian school teacher. He was saved when he was six; his father taught him that salvation is by personally believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. Baptized at eleven years old, he preached his first church sermon at twelve. A graduate of both an A.C.E school at sixteen and of a Bible college, he began to pastor a Bible-believing Baptist church at twenty-one. He is also a teacher of the same High School and Bible college he graduated from.