Pastor Louis Chapman
Most of my childhood was spent in the Low Country of South Carolina, which is where I received Christ as my savior at 6 years old in the little Springhill Baptist country church. It was there I started growing in the faith under Pastor Jakie Walters.
At 13, my father took a job in North Carolina where I lived for 6 years before making my way to the greatest country on earth, Texas. Most of my life was spent in that wonderful place. In 2005, I met my wife, Jennifer, and in 2006 we were married. The previous year (2005), God called me to New York, but it would be 15 years before that calling came to fruition.
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In 2013, I began serving as a police officer in Duncanville, Texas and I served as the director of men's ministry at New Life Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas for 3 years. Then, in 2014, my wife and I felt called to First Baptist Dallas. We served in various ministries there under Dr. Robert Jeffress who was the one that encouraged me to get into Bible college.
I began studies at Liberty University Online in 2018 and would end up graduating from the Rawlings School of Divinity in 2021. During school, and the middle of a pandemic (May 2020), Jennifer, our 2 children, and I were finally released to come to New York. We operated as independent missionaries for the first couple of years until I was called to pastor at Hawkinsville Methodist Church on short notice in May of 2022. I continued my education, the fruits of which will come to bear in May 2025 with my M.A. in Pastoral Counseling and Community Chaplaincy. The Lord blessed us immensely while serving at Hawkinsville and we then answered the call to come to New Beginnings in November of 2024.
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It is a very different world for us here in the North Country, but God has been so good to us and we are excited to see what He has in store for us in this new chapter of life with this New Beginning.
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Also, I echo former Pastor Allen Wayne: nothing beats a good cup of strong coffee!
