Representing First Nations people as a follower of Jesus Christ, Jerry Chapman (Sto:lo) ministers to his local community in Cowlitz County, Wash., throughout the Pacific Northwest and Canada and overseas. Jerry has been gifted with a unique form of prophetic worship through drumming, which led to the name of his ministry: “Drumspeaker to the Nations.” He not only ministers through worship, he presents the Gospel to First Nations people in a culturally relevant way. He hand-crafts most of the native drums and percussion instruments he uses, and often presents drums he has made as gifts during ministry events he is invited to. Jerry crafts each drum with intense intercession and prayer focus, and he believes that every beat of the drum is a proclamation of the greatness of our Lord Jesus Christ that will reverberate throughout eternity. He has spent many hours over the last several years teaching traditional drum crafting, as well as First Nations customs and traditions. His walk with the Lord began more than 20 years ago, in 1984, when he accepted Christ at an Assemblies of God Church in Kelso, WA. He went on the serve in many ministries in the church, including street ministry and prison and juvenile detention ministry. Later he took courses with Lamplighter International and at the Vancouver School of Theology. He was ordained under the ministerial staff of Evangel Christian Fellowship in May of 2002, and later that summer he was commissioned as Gatekeeper of the Columbia River Region by the ministry of 120 Drums. Jerry’s wife, Leslie, is a fulltime volunteer with the ministry, handling all office and communications matters and serving as the ministry’s treasurer. Jerry is a truck driver for a Longview trucking firm but has been working to increase financial support so he can devote full time to ministry.

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