Get to Know Joe Chapman

Ministry Description

My responsibilities include All aspects of the kitchen at WOLBI Jeju including meal preparation, kitchen student service assignments, and clean up, discipleship of chef trainees. What does that look like?
1. Meal Preparation: Oversees creating a list and shopping for needed items, creating a prep task list for each day, prepping ahead for future meals (marinating meat, chopping veggies etc.) cooking assigned meal plating and setting the food line.
2. Kitchen Student Service Assignment: Oversees student service assignment prep and clean up giving student(s) in charge of baking assigned items and making sure it is prepared on time creating and assigning extra jobs/ cleaning list to be done each shift
3. Discipleship of chef Trainees: Oversees and encourages the growth of the trainees in the area of use the gift of servitude to glorify God lead the small group in quiet time sharing and discipline
4. Clean Up: Oversees after meal gathering/ dating leftovers and putting them in leftover fridge wiping down stove/flattop/prep table. Etc. Gathering and taking out food trash/compost making sure recycling is take care of correctly doing laundry and making sure everything is clean for the next day.
5. Orientation and Training: Oversees Staff and Student kitchen/trash orientation at the beginning of each year. Training students for their assigned positions at the beginning of the year as well as during camp seasons.
This is my day to day but is not what I am limited to especially during camp seasons. I help out in different areas to assist in the setup for camp and clean up. If need other part like skits and messages during the week.

Learn more about the ministry in South Korea Jeju Island.

About Joe

Growing up I thought that I was Christian because I was born into it and I went to church on Sunday and youth group once in a while. Until my senior year of high school that is when I started to really ask what being a Christian is about. I have always had a passion for being in the kitchen, since I was young I was trying to cook as many things as I could learn to cook. i wanted to go to school for it after I graduated high school. In the summer of 2013, I went to Word of Life Inn and the conference center to work in the kitchen. During that summer God got a hold of my heart and I put my faith Christ and what he did on the cross for me. I started to seek a relationship with him. Over the next few years, I had learned how to serve God through work in kitchens, and in the summer of 2017, I was presented with an opportunity to go serve in Japan working in the kitchen of the School of Youth Ministry in English (SYME) Japan. While I spent time in prayer over it and ask some elders in the church to pray with me about it, I decided to pursue that opportunity. After starting to take steps I continued to see God provide the way. During my first year in Japan God showed me the needs of Asia for the gospel and the hope it brings. Now I am following Gods call to go and make disciples who go and make more disciples.

Colossians 1:10 "so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;" (ESV)

Contact Information

jkchapman@wol.org
Email- jkchapman@wol.org
Phone # (570)-540-8219