Dr. Joe is the senior pastor at Lakes Community Chapel in Medford, NJ, where he has served for fifteen years. His pastoral ministry spans thirty-five years, serving churches in North Carolina, Georgia, and New Jersey. Dr. Olachea earned his PhD in Research at Oxford Graduate School in Dayton, TN, with an emphasis in First Century Jewish Worldview and the Preaching and Praxis of Jesus. He is a Fellow in the OGS Society of Scholars and continues his research of discipleship within the context of the local church. Joe is a Discipleship Consultant and Coach, and serves as the Trainer for DisciplePath, mentoring, coaching, and training pastors and churches in whole-church intentional discipleship in the US and overseas. Dr. Olachea’s ministry includes teaching at seminaries in the Philippines and Moldova, and more recently he has trained pastors and church leaders in discipleship in Africa, Asia, and Europe.