by Dr. Paul Chappell | Feb 26, 2018 | Ministry News
After the 2016 Spiritual Leadership Conference Asia, we not only made immediate plans for a 2018 conference, but we also determined to add as far-reaching outreach the weekend before the conference as would be possible. Over the past several months, our team in...
by Dr. Paul Chappell | Feb 9, 2018 | Ministry Leadership, Ministry News
When you consider the needs of the 10/40 window—a region spanning from ten to forty degrees north of the equator on the Eastern Hemisphere—it’s overwhelming. The 10/40 window contains: Almost 5 billion people—over 95 percent of which are unreached with the...
by Dr. Paul Chappell | Nov 25, 2017 | Christian Life, Current Events, Media/Resources, Ministry Leadership, Ministry News
Just ten degrees north of the equator to forty degrees north, on the Eastern Hemisphere, lies a relatively narrow section of the world—the 10/40 window—that holds over half of the world’s population. Of these almost five billion people, close to 90 percent are...
by Dr. Paul Chappell | Aug 11, 2017 | Ministry Leadership
I snapped the picture above as we were recently driving into Los Angeles. And my heart was gripped by the numbers on it. Four million people in this one city—just seventy miles from where I pastor. And the population listed on the sign is just Los Angeles proper. If...
by Dr. Paul Chappell | Mar 29, 2017 | Ministry Leadership
I’ll be upfront: as an independent Baptist pastor, I am concerned. Statistics bear that various groups are sliding, and every indication is that established independent Baptist churches are seeing fewer people added to the church by baptism. This means that even as...