Dr. Jack Chinchen went to be with the Lord. He died in Africa where he served Christ for nearly 50 years (1970 - 2019) as a pioneer missionary and as one of the continent’s great trailblazers of Christian higher education.

Jack and Nell have established four ABC radio stations in Africa, one each in Liberia and Uganda, two in Malawi (Lilongwe and Mzuzu), as well as a Christian television station that operates from the ABC campus in Malawi.

Jack Chinchens and his wife established a second African Bible College campus in Malawi, where it was again the first 4-year Christian college in the country.  Today the Malawi campus encompass a number of important support ministries including the ABC Christian Academy, the ABC Mission Hospital, Radio ABC and ABC-TV.

Jack felt called to found Bible College by Radio, which teaches through books of the Bible while interacting with students and graduates of African Bible College. Bible College by Radio has been broadcast across Africa for 45 years on SIM’s ELWA, Trans World Radio, and African Bible College’s own radio stations in Liberia, Malawi and Uganda.

Jack and Nell, along with four of their seven children moved to ENI Mission in the jungles of Sinoe County, Liberia. The Chinchen’s first home in Africa was constructed from bamboo mats and on stilts.  During Jacks’s seven years at the mission, he built fourteen buildings and cut a six-mile road through the bush. Jack also initiated one of the first short-term mission trip programs, which he named “Vacangelize” (vacation and evangelization). During their time at ENI Mission, the Chinchens lost two homes to fires, loosing practically everything they owned.

Jack Chinchen was called to be the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Picayune, Mississippi, where he became a member of Grace Presbytery and a founding member of the new Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).

Jack Chinchen was called to serve as a Pastor of Clallam Bay, Washington.

Jack Chinchen graduated from San Francisco Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity.

On his 33rd birthday, Jack Chinchen Received his first Bible from his wife, Nell, and he fell in love with Jesus Christ

After the war, Jack and Nell returned to California where he graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in Business in 1946.

At the height of WWII, Jack enlisted in the US Navy.  He was sent to Colombia University in New York and North Dakota for Officer's Training School, then on to Gulfport, Mississippi for training as a Recognition Officer. Jack was Jack was later on commissioned as a Lieutenant JG and assigned to a Destroyer, the USS Maddox, which fought in the Pacific theatre during the war.