Paul Chappell

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Paul W. Chappell
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Born7 April 1962 (1962-04-07) (age 62)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Education Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College (BA)
Louisiana Baptist University (MA)
Trinity Baptist College (DDiv)
Spouse
Terrie Blanco Chappell
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(m. 1980)​

Paul Chappell is an American pastor who has served as the senior pastor of Lancaster Baptist Church since 1986. He is the president and founder of West Coast Baptist College, Lancaster Baptist School, and Striving Together Publications. [1]

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Chappell is heard on the Daily in the Word radio broadcast. [2] He serves on the Board of Trustees for Baptist International Missions Inc. [3] He is the founder of the Spiritual Leadership Conference [4] held annually in June and in January for Spanish pastors, and bi-annually in Asia.

Early life and education

Chappell was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Northern California. He graduated from high school in Seoul, South Korea. [5] Chappell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in pastoral theology from Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College in 1983. While attending college, he founded and pastored the Seaside Baptist Church near Indio, California. He received a Master of Arts degree from the Louisiana Baptist University in Shreveport, Louisiana, and was later honored with a Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity Baptist College in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1995. [6]

Career

In 1986, twelve members called Chappell to pastor the Lancaster Baptist Church in Lancaster, California. [7] The church was in foreclosure and could offer no pastoral salary. Chappell and his family moved to Lancaster. In the first Sunday evening service, Chappell brought the message from Philippians 1:27 and asked the church to “strive together” with him to reach the community with the gospel. In the months that followed, Chappell personally knocked on five hundred doors each week, inviting people to church and telling them how they could know Jesus Christ as their Savior. [8] In the pulpit, he began preaching verse-by-verse through portions of Scripture. [9]

a service at Lancaster Baptist Church in July 2011 Lancaster Baptist Church Main Auditorium.jpg
a service at Lancaster Baptist Church in July 2011

In March 2009, Mayor Rex Parris (Lancaster, California) awarded Chappell the City's Citizen of the Year award for 2008. [10]

Chappell serves as the president of West Coast Baptist College, a ministry of Lancaster Baptist Church. The college offers undergraduate and graduate degrees for individuals seeking a vocation in full-time Christian ministry. The college opened in 1995. It is a member of the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) having been approved for Accredited Status on April 18, 2019. [11]

Chappell’s Daily in the Word radio broadcast is heard five days a week on over one hundred stations across America and in some other countries. [12] [13] [14] [15] The program began in 1989 as The Sunday Morning Gospel Hour on a local station every Sunday morning. In 1992, the program became a daily ministry on a local Christian station and took the name Truth for Today. In 2005, the name was changed to Daily in the Word and was coupled with a daily devotional website. [16]

Chappell has spoken at Bible conferences throughout the United States and around the world. [17] He is a Fox News opinion contributor. [18] [19] He has been a guest on Todd Starnes syndicated talk radio show on Fox News Radio. [20] [21] In light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Chappell alongside the city of Lancaster, California, and Franklin Graham worked with the charitable organization Samaritan's Purse to establish emergency field hospitals to treat COVID patients. [22] [23]

Publications

Chappell has authored books on Christian living and biblical ministry philosophy [24] as well as Sunday school curriculum and minibooks on contemporary issues. [25] In 1999, he began a publications ministry that produces materials to equip Christians and local churches with resources for ministry. [26]

Personal life

Chappell and his wife Terrie were married in 1980. They have two daughters and two sons. [27] All four of their children serve in full time ministry with their spouses. [28]

Selected works

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  27. ↑ "Paul Chappell Blog". Archived from the original on 2016-05-03. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
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