Keeping Young Adults in Church: Spiritual Leadership Podcast
Recent studies show that, across Protestant denominations, roughly two-thirds of teens stop attending church after graduation. In this episode of the Spiritual Leadership Podcast, I talk with our youth pastor, Larry Chappell, and the young adults ministry director of...
Developing a Church Staff: Spiritual Leadership Podcast
I thank God for the wonderful team of staff that He has brought to Lancaster Baptist Church and West Coast Baptist College. It’s amazing how God gives different gifts to different people within a church family to work together to meet the needs of the local...
Four Convictions that Keep You in the Ministry
This coming Sunday, Terrie and I will celebrate thirty-three years of ministry at Lancaster Baptist Church. I’m looking forward to Anniversary Sunday and the Spiritual Leadership Conference following. (And I hope you’re planning to join us!) Before guests arrive for...
10 Ideas for Pastoral Summer Growth
If your schedule is anything like mine, from Thanksgiving to early June is booked. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, starting off new school semesters, winter revival, stewardship emphasis, Easter, graduations…. It fills up pretty fast. Because I know this happens...
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Pastor Paul Chappell
Dr. Paul Chappell is the senior pastor of the Lancaster Baptist Church and president of West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, California. His biblical vision has led the church to become one of the most dynamic independent Baptist churches in the nation. He has been married to his wife, Terrie, for over forty years and is the father of four married children all serving in Christian ministry.
