Pastor Paul Chappell of the Baptist Church in Lancaster California offers the relaunch of the Spiritual Leadership Podcast; the program is focused on practical and insightful ministry leadership instruction

LANCASTER, CA / ACCESSWIRE / November 4, 2016 / Lancaster Baptist Church and Pastor Paul Chappell are pleased to announce that they have launched a free podcast based on insightful and practical ministry leadership training and instruction. The new program is titled, "The Spiritual Leadership Podcast" and draws from the three decades of ministry experience accrued by Dr. Chappell. The spiritual podcast is the most recent in a lengthy series of resources for those in ministry leadership roles. With more than three decades in the ministry, Dr. Chappell wants to use his experience to strengthen fellow laborers in the field.

"The Spiritual Leadership Podcast" launched September 15, 2016. The first episode, "Is Your Motivation Style Demotivating?" deals with four types of motivation that Dr. Chappell characterizes as "unhealthy and unscriptural." The episode outlines four healthy and scriptural types of motivation. Dr. Chappell will use the podcast to be an interactive tool for listeners to submit questions and topics. In future episodes of the podcast, Chappell will dedicate time to addressing those submitted questions and topics.

Paul Chappell is the pastor of Lancaster Baptist located in Lancaster, California, which is one of the largest Baptist churches in the United States. Dr. Chappell is the author of more than a dozen books, devotionals, and training curricula as well as his blog at paulchappell.com. He has also founded ministry127.com, an online resource website for ministry leaders.

Dr. Chappell is also the founder and President of West Coast Baptist College, a Bible college offering graduate and undergraduate degrees for men and women seeking to serve vocationally in full-time Christian work in such roles as pastors, assistant pastors, missionaries, evangelists and Christian educators.

Dr. Chappell was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, received early schooling in Northern California, and attended high school in Seoul, South Korea. He enrolled at Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Pastoral Theology in 1983. While attending college, he founded and pastored Seaside Baptist Church near Indio, California. Chappell furthered his education by receiving a Master of Arts degree from Louisiana Baptist University in Shreveport, Louisiana.

He was called to Lancaster Church in 1986 by its twelve members. The church was in foreclosure and could offer no pastoral salary, however, over the past thirty years, the congregation has grown from an average attendance of twenty to become one of the largest Baptist churches in the country. Today, the church occupies eighty-three acres of land and has built several multimillion-dollar buildings. The church annually gives more than one million dollars to missionaries worldwide.