Meet Pastor Jeff Chapman

Pastor Jeff has served for the past 13 years in large, multi-staff church settings:

• Associate Pastor of Youth & Christian Education, Presbyterian Church, Omaha, Nebraska (multiple-staff church/1400 members), 1996-Present. His duties include supervising four full-time staff members plus interns; extensive preaching & worship leadership; coordinating short term mission projects; sharing in pastoral care and counseling responsibilities; coordinating youth and college outreach and discipleship programs
  
  Urban Youth Program, Youth Outreach Intern, Trenton Cluster of Presbyterian churches
  (4 churches/approx.100 members each), Trenton, NJ,  1995
  
• Seminary Student Intern, Gwynned Square Presbyterian Church, Lansdale, PA
  (Multiple-staff church/400 membership),  1994 - 1995
  
• Hospital Chaplain Intern, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ,  1994
  
  Director of Youth Ministries, First Presbyterian Church, Burlingame, CA
  (Multiple-staff church, 1200 members), 1988 - 1993
  
• Director of Junior High Ministries, Community Presbyterian Church, Vacaville, CA
  (Multiple-staff church, 400 members), 1986- 1988
  
• Summer Camp Program Coordinator & Lead Counselor, Westminster Woods, Occidental, CA,  1985 - 1986

Pastor Jeff’s Formal Education:

• Princeton Theological Seminary, M. Div., 1993 - 1996
  Recipient, Kenyon J. Wildrick Award for Excellence in Homiletics
  Recipient, Robert Boyd Munger Prize in Youth Ministry
  
• UC Davis, BA, English, 1984 - 1988

Ordination Date: June 1996

Personal Information about Pastor Jeff:

• Married for 12 years to Esther, a full-time mom and part-time freelance writer
• Hobbies include backpacking, hiking, skiing, and playing the guitar.

Pastor Jeff’s Children:

Isabel, age 6

• Isabel is entering 1st grade.  Among the favorite things she learned in kindergarten are: reading, writing, adding, and a bit of sign language,
• Isabel loves to dance, play soccer, draw and swim.

        Noel, age 4 - 1/2 (he's very picky about the half-part)

         Noel just finished his first year of pre-school. 

• His favorite items include his cowboy boots, superheroes, a well-worn bear named Lovey and his thumb. 

The kids' comments on moving to California:

"OK, as long as they have swimming pools;” and, "Does this mean we can get a dog and a swing set?"