Japhet De Oliveira

Japhet De Oliveira is the Chaplain for Missions and the Director of CYE.

Japhet De Oliveira
Director of CYE, Chaplain for Missions and Interim Dir. for MA Youth Ministry
Email: japhet@andrews.edu
Office: 269-471-8342
Cell: 269-208-9024
Japhet's video

Pastor De Oliveira is an energetic and innovative leader with a passion for young people. Japhet earned his BA in theology and an MA in Religion with a certificate in church growth from Andrews University on the Newbold College campus.

"If I can be part of a team that makes a difference to both those connected with and searching for God, I will be a satisfied man," says De Oliveira about his role at Andrews. "At the end of the day when I look back on my life, I want to know that I served well, played hard, that my boys and wife are proud of me and that God inspired my leadership. Honestly, what more is there?"

Name: Japhet Jalvanson De Oliveira
Title: Chaplain for Missions
Age: 35
Born: Beckenham, England
Siblings: Four brothers and one sister.
Married: Believe it or not, yes, to Becky, for 13 years.
Kids: Two boys, aged 10 and 6. Witnessed both their births. Childbirth is—uh—really beautiful. I didn't faint, although the gas helped a lot.
Education: Theology BA and Religion MA plus driving licenses from more than one country with speeding tickets to match.
Mission Service: Cornwall, England and Macau, China plus the sprinkling of other spices and countries when they used to stamp your passport.
Greatest fear: Inadvertently driving my car off a bridge and ending up trapped underwater.
First language: Portuguese—most of which I've forgotten, though I can still understand what Brazilians say and I stalk them quietly. I lived in Brazil when I was about  two years old for about a year, so that was where I first  started to talk. I don't have a funny accent though. I have no future as a telemarketer.
What I'd be if not a pastor: Dr. Indiana Jones
Obsessed with: Apple Mac computers—Steve Jobs, I love you (in an appropriate way).
Defining moment: Watching Raiders of the Lost Ark and thinking, "That could be me!"—but as a missionary, rather than an archeologist. Not keen on all the snakes though.
First job: McDonald's. That was where I developed my lifelong passion for fitness and healthy eating.