But his prominent public profile not withstanding, hard evidence of a vast followership is hard to find.  So let's consider one visible measure of his followership -- his footprint on Twitter and Facebook.

As of this writing, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference has only 1030 Likes on Facebook and 3,204 followers on Twitter.   This Twitter feed serves both NHCLC and Rodriguez himself.  NHCLC maintains an additional and currently active Twitter feed under its other name Hispanic Evangelical Association, with 303 followers.

New Season Christian Worship Center has 42 followers on Twitter, and 1,816 Likes on Facebook. The number of "Likes" might seem pretty good for a small church until we consider that Rodriguez also claims on the church web site to be "providing oversight and leadership to over 34,200 churches in all 50 states and Puerto Rico."

(Curiously, Rodriguez claims that the NHCLC represents the identical number of churches in this recent press release.)

It is possible, of course, that the followership of Rev. Rodriguez does not happen to be active on social media.  Participation on social media does vary greatly among constituents of organizations large and small, religious and otherwise.  Nevertheless, the discrepancy between the number of people and churches Rodriguez claims to represent, and the number of people who follow NHCLC and New Season Christian Worship Center is so great, I don't think this can be easily explained.  

There is also no explanation I can find of where the numbers of Rodriquez followership comes from, let alone how rigorously the numbers are derived.

Whatever we may say about the leadership and followership of Rev. Rodriguez, he directly states on his Linked-In profile what he clearly would like everyone to believe:  "By God's Grace, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez stands today as America's voice for Hispanic Christianity."