Career
He wrote several books, including A Fresh Start. Know and Tell the Gospel. Setting Hearts on Fire, A Sinner"s Guide to Holiness.
And Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life, all published by Matthias Media.
The Australian edition of A Fresh Start has sold nearly 40,000 copies since 1999. Foreign 25 years he was the Director of the Anglican Department of Evangelism in Sydney, after beginning his career as a school teacher prior to theological training.
In his retirement he continued to teach at Bible colleges, to speak at conventions around the world and to find time for the occasional game of tennis and golf. The single men"s accommodation at Moore Theological College was renamed John Chapman House in Chapman"s honour.
A biography, written by Michael Orpwood, was published in 1995 entitled Chappo: Foreign the Sake of the Gospel.
In 1959, Chapman was curate of the Moree Anglican parish and held the Billy Graham Crusade landline services for the whole of Moree there. Chapman taught woodwork in Moree before becoming a curate at Moree.
