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About Our Senior Team

Paul Sartarelli, Senior Pastor

David Fletcher, Executive Pastor

 

Paul Sartarelli
Senior Pastor

Paul is the son of immigrant parents. He grew up in Ohio, although he also lived for several years in Italy.

Paul did his undergraduate work at Kent State University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric and classical languages. He earned his master’s in theology at Dallas Theological Seminary in New Testament Greek and systematic theology. Paul has done post-graduate work in rhetoric at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

After having served at The Chapel for eight years, Paul became the planting pastor of Riverwood Community Chapel in Kent, OH, where he was senior pastor for 15 years.

Paul returned to The Chapel in 2006 in the role of associate senior pastor. In 2007, he became co-senior pastor with the plan of becoming the next senior pastor.

For eight years, Paul has been the teaching pastor on the popular Moody Radio “Word on the Street,” which is heard locally on WCRF.

Over the years, Paul has led and spoken at conferences for pastors, missionaries, and spiritual leaders on four continents.

Paul is married to Sue, who has an active ministry of her own. They have one daughter, Sara Sartarelli-Hudson, who lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Tony.

Contact Paul by emailing his Executive Assistant, Tammy Kennedy.

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David Fletcher
Executive Pastor

Since his earliest days of ministry, Dr. David Fletcher has been called to serve his local church. He served for 26 years at a church in Dallas, Texas, and four years in a church in Austin before joining the leadership team of The Chapel.

Dr. Fletcher draws on his extensive experience as an XP to run XPastor.org, a global ministry tool for leaders of churches of all sizes. XPastor.org now gets tens of thousands of visits monthly and holds thousands of pages of free information to help church leaders.

An accomplished executive pastor, professor of doctoral ministry and an expert on church marketing, management and leadership, Fletcher’s focus remains on serving the local church, whether that church is in the Mid-western United States, Eastern Asia or anywhere in between. Fletcher says. “My first love is my local church. Everything else I do spreads out in concentric circles from that calling.”

As an undergraduate, Dr. Fletcher received special permission to take classes at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Later he received degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary, and took executive education classes at the Kellogg School of Management and the Harvard Business School. In the beginning of his ministry, he worked with Jim Rose, the noted Bible communicator. Fletcher comments, "It is a tremendous joy to be now partnering with one of the foremost of Bible expositors, Paul Sartarelli. What a great joy to serve with some of the great preachers in the American church."

Dr. Fletcher teaches XPastor concepts to Doctor of Ministry students at the Dallas Theological Seminary and at the Evangelical Theological Seminary of India. Since the time he inaugurated the program in India, it has doubled in size each year. Fletcher has brought in world class authors as guest professors, such as Dr. Darrell Bock and Dr. Gene Getz. Now it is the largest D.Min. program in India. As part of his international outreach and missionary work, Fletcher is treasurer for the American Council of the Asian Christian Academy. He has served on the ACA board since 1991.

Fletcher is also certified in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis. He has been trained in conflict resolution, mediation and arbitration by Peacemaker Ministries.

When he’s not actively involved in ministry and teaching in Texas, Ohio, India or wherever the Lord’s work takes him, David loves to bicycle and exercise with his wife, Tami—and of course scuba diving! They are "pleased and proud" of their two children. Jason, and his wife Erin, began Realtime Republic Design, after being graduated from the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Lauren, and her husband Josiah, have begun an entrepreneurial business while at Stephen F. Austin University.

David says, “My door is always open. Contact me with your questions."

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