In 2003, Minister Ina Chapman was profiled for the book Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York, Volume II. The book chronicles the lives of African American women whose brilliance and dedication to their families and communities helped shape the world around them for the better. It is an important work in celebrating women who continue to be pillars of their community.

This biography appears in Uncrowned Queens, Volume II. Ina Rebecca Doss Chapman was born in Buffalo, New York and attended Buffalo Public schools. She is the youngest of six siblings born to Elizabeth and the late Monroe Doss.

She has a long career in the health sciences and has several certifications from programs such as the American Society of Clinical Pathologists in Contemporary Issues in Flow Cytometry, the Beckman/Dickinson Immunocytometry Systems, Basic Radiation Safety from the University at Buffalo and the Baylor College of Medicine in Health Education. Believing that one should have balance in their lives, she also has certification as a fitness instructor and lifeguard.

For twenty years, Ina worked at Roswell Park Cancer Institute as a Medical Research Technician in Flow Cytometry, Radiation Medicine, and Cancer Control and Epidemiology. In 2002, she was appointed Executive Outreach Coordinator for the Witness Project of Buffalo and Erie County. This is a national cancer education replication and dissemination project, originating at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The Buffalo and Erie County project is one of thirty-two sites across the country. The primary goal of the project is to educate the African American community about breast and cervical cancer as well as emphasizing the importance of early detection.

As coordinator, she works with a dedicated team of over thirty staff and volunteers and is responsible for supervising training, conducting seminars and workshops for other organizations, and recruiting lay health advisors and Witness role models. She also works with members of the community through businesses, churches, and community centers to teach women about breast self-exams and cervical cancer screening. Ina Chapman is a member of the Roswell Park Alliance Annual Fund Committee and is a much sought after public speaker.

In 2003, she began a new role as the first lady of the St. John Baptist Church and succeeds in managing a delicate balance between work and church.

She shares a twenty-eight year commitment with her husband, Rev. Michael Chapman. They are residents of the City of Buffalo and are the proud parents of five children, Kenyatta Jameel, Mikeyta Irene, Tiffany Oria, Tera Elizabeth, Michael II, and 14 grandchildren.

Our WECGOD II, 501c3 Corporation (We Educate Communities Globally On Disparities) is asking for your support for the upcoming year growing season by contributing to our annual appeal.

You can donate via the Buffalo Black Billion website by clicking here or by mail written to:  WECGOD Tree of 40 Fruit at: 57 Grape St, Buffalo, NY 14204.

ALL GIFTS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

Our Corporation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, health and religious purposes. Our mission is to decrease the disproportionate burden of disease and early loss of life among medically undeserved communities through education, empowerment, partnerships and interventional strategies that impact determinants of health globally.

Your help is greatly needed in growing stronger Youth and supporting Seniors, Veteran Families and the Homeless in a food desert neighborhoods through providing them with free fresh fruits and vegetables, a learning space for garden stewardship where we grow organic produce, educate our children, and provide healthy habitats for local flora and fauna. Most importantly, a place where our Seniors share knowledge from their farming and fishing years with our Young People to be able to sustain themselves with these skills throughout the years.

As believers, we understand that the love of Christ isn’t meant to be kept to ourselves. It’s a love that reaches out and gives it forward. For each and every student that has supported us we express our deepest thanks. Our students are not just learners; they are change makers, extending Christ’s love through their generosity. Whether you give back to WECGOD through a financial donation – large or small, or simply support by spreading the Word or through your prayers – thank you!

We hope you continue to join us in this blessed journey of giving back and witness how your generosity can light up lives!

The Chapman Doss family would like to publicly thank our supporters for their annual gifts along with the Administrative Secretary of our Corporations, Executive Catherine Wright. Gethsemane Missionary and St. John Baptist Churches for their continued support. And a special thanks to Overseer Michael Chapman who was appointed Chairman of Economic Development in 2018 for the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. Since that appointment has allowed our Youth and Advisors to travel with the Buffalo’s Black Billion Comprehensive Collaborative Urban Development Model to Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland; Altoona, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; Panama and Miami, Florida where he received the Keys to the City for this model, as well as internationally depressed areas in Jamaica and Bahamas. Thanks to Overseer Chapman’s generosity and generous supporters like you, we’ve been partnering with schools and working alongside residents to address food desert neighborhoods around the world.

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over, shall men give into your bosom(lap). For with the same measure you mete(use), withal it shall be measured to you again.

– Luke 6:38

In Christ,

Ina Rebecca Doss-Chapman

Opened in 1874, this $1.4 million restoration project was prepared by the Clinton Brown Company Architecture, PC of Buffalo, known for its renewing of historic buildings and heritage places.

“We will use our donation to begin discussions with local foundations to match it or do more to help us complete this restoration, which we believe will help us restore that community,” Pastor Chapman said. “We plan to begin the renovation in the spring, and it will include a renovation of the original sanctuary, the parsonage, kitchen, cafeteria and restoring the original pipe organ.”

WECGOD II had previously donated $400,000 to the project for a new roof, masonry work, a new boiler and stabilizing the building.

Jonathan D. Epstein from Buffalo News spoke with Reverend Chapman and Minister Ina regarding the church’s renovation and their plans for added amenities that will benefit the community. Click here to read article.

Minister Ina R. Doss Chapman Personal Executive Administrator to Buffalo’s Black Billion – a powerful economic and community development force within the City of East Buffalo, known as the “Fruit Belt.”

Pastor’s Wife, Mother, Researcher, & Author:

Minister Ina is the wife and Personal Executive Administrator of Overseer Michael Chapman, Developer and Author of the “Buffalo Black Billion Dollar Fruit Belt Eastside Buffalo New York Comprehensive Urban Development Model” (hereinafter “Comprehensive Model”), who was recently appointed as the National Chair of Economic Development for the prestigious and powerful 2.5 million-member Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc..

As National Chair, Overseer Chapman will oversee its’ economic development phase under the able direction of its’ President, Timothy Steward, of Nassau Bahama.

Minister Ina has shared with her husband, forty-four years and five children together; Kenyatta Jameel (LaTonya), Mikeyta Irene (William), Tiffany Oria, Tera Elizabeth and Michael II (Taresa), and are the proud grandparents of thirty grandchildren and six great grandchildren. She has served her currant church families consecutively over forty-one years and four years in various capacities.

Under the God-driven and faith-based leadership agreed to take a vow of poverty to profit share with her church family to develop the Fruit Belt community by leveraging family salary, church assets and corporations for economic and community development on behalf of the statistically and demographically destitute underserved Fruit Belt community since 2003. Using discretion and offering wise and sound counsel based on her own Christian journey, have the unique ability to make the teachings of Christ applicable and relevant in the lives of her family through prayer and fasting.

Operating with the highest of moral and ethical standards, building community wealth using Biblical Principles, eighteen years without any fiscal scandals, no misappropriation of funds and no embezzlements. Her consistent high commitment to moral and ethical standards in private and public cannot be ignored. Guiding her families’ spiritual journey to be more like Christ by using specific examples found in scripture.

AS a CSMA have gained by first-hand experience, expanded self-awareness through meditation, fasting and solitude with a deeper understanding of her mission to administer, impart embed and integrate the teachings of Christ to those who desire a deeper understanding and meaning throughout their Christian journey. Has personally contribute 1.5 million dollars to the now debt-free St. John – Gethsemane village community churches and now have officially taken her place as a “major player in the economic and community development initiatives and future of the City of Buffalo”

With the continued joint efforts of Cancer Research Contribution in Community Base Participatory Research as Regional Director for a National Breast and Cervical Cancer program inspired her to start family corporations in the community which she serves after retirement of 35 years in Cancer Research.

Ina presently serves as International Consultant and Personal Executive Administrator in her family corporations and Director of Health Initiatives at the Churches, Campus and Village.

She and her family have founded Fruit Belt Community Development Corporation, Inc., Community Development Corp.; Century Life Style Health & Wellness Center. Serving the Western NY community and several corporations, for ancillary services to Primary Care with Medical Massages, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic Services, and Health Classes for Chronic Diseases for Women & Children’s Health. It Still Takes A Village, LLC; Chapman’s Outsources Management Company which supports telecommunication services, devices, software and connectivity; IJOT Communication LLC is a National Authorized Retail provider for both Residential and Commercial Accounts; Diamond’s In the Rough a Women’s Transitional Housing in Ohio and Georgia and Cranial Prosthesis (wigs) free for children with cancer; Tiffany’s Operational Center for Youth (TOC for Youth) provides shelter, safety, protection and activities that strengthen interventions to provide second-chance opportunities for homeless youth and young adult parents in need of information to succeed in formal education and life.; Link Up LLC Social Media Marketing and Advertisement; Blessed of the Lord 501c3, a Production Ministry; God’s Farm’acy a Free Fresh Food Truck in community food deserts, MC Creative Thinkers LLC a Web base Data Management Tool; WECGOD LLC, (We Educate Communities Globally on Disparities) that strives to acquire and analyze community based health data related to untimely loss of life. Caregivers Boat Ministry for respite and five generation family health history for wellness specializing in health care services for disadvantage raising the quality of life for the underserved.

WECGOD II, a 501c3 Nonprofit Charity Corporation that recently paid $1.5 million dollars for a debt free campus. In her forty year career, thirty plus years at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (RPCCC) in Clinical Research ensuring many of the laser test procedures with Photodynamic Therapy on the ND YAG laser for animal surgery treatment with Dr. Thomas J. Dougherty who discovered of the medication Photofrin. and Dr. Carleton C. Stewart at (RPCCC), Flow Cytometry reviewing protocols for biohazard concerns.

Author:

• Mang TS, Keme T., Chapman IR Abstract Poster American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery; Combination Studies On Hyperthemia Induced by Hd: YAG as an Adjuvant to Photodymanic Therapy
• Hurd TC, Chapman IR, Kelly M, Rodgers T, Womack SD, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, TX; Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY; State University of New York at Buffalo, NY. An Evaluation of the Integration of Non-Traditional Learning Tools into a Community. [CBPR], which is regionally and internationally recognized from pass mentor the late Lorraine Peeler PhD., and currant mentor and co-author in research, Thelma C. Hurd MD Educator and Breast Surgeon.
• Go Tell Michelle African American Women Writes to the First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama. Titled: From Whence She Came Daddy’s Little Black Gal

Featured In:

• Today’s Minister’s Wives, Baltimore/ Washington Magazine;
• Volume II of the “Uncrowned Queens; African American Women Community Builders of WNY for Outstanding Contributions to Healthcare in Western NY
• Buffalo Magazine (Wellness)
• Most recently Minority Enterprise Advocate for Buffalo’s Black Billion
• Heart & Soul Magazine

Honors:

• Outstanding Research Contribution Award African Cancer Care Inc. San Antonio, Texas
• Women In Action Award Elim Christian Fellowship, Buffalo, NY
• Family Life Award Buffalo Urban League
• Invitee of Senator Kristen E. Gillibrand Faith-Based Summit
• Member, Board Of Directors Uncrowned Queens Institute
• Invitee of White House to African American Forum
• Invitee of White House West Wing Tour
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated Gamma Phi Omega Chapter Honors First Ladies
• Certification Grief Communication Pastoral Care Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Spokesperson at the White House for Fruit Belt Community Development Model
• Member, Board of Directors of the African Cancer Care Inc. African Cancer Prevention Group, Houston, TX
• Invitee of President Obama Administration as Primary Representative for City of Buffalo Presidential visit to Albany for Economic Development Initiative
• Honored in meeting the President of the United States. Conversed with President Obama with process of presenting Go, Tell Michelle (African American Women Write to the New First Lady) while visiting University at Albany’s College of Nano Science and Engineering.
• Personal Greeting from The Arm of Her Majesty’s Bahamian Government, Third time sitting Prime Minister of The Bahamas.
• Prime Minister Perry Christie.
• Met with Executive Officials of Prime
• Minister on Economic Development Initiative.
• Hosted New York gubernatorial rally for Governor Cuomo three term
• Alpha Kappa Alpha,Xi Epsilon Omega Chapter Community Health Award
• Accomplished African American Women in Western New York, Uncrown Queens Institute
• African American Achiever Award, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Western NY Woman In Action Award Purposeful Women of Faith Award
• Executive Women International Institute
• Black Achievers in Industry Award

Ina enjoys roller skating, working with youth and the elderly, swimming, kite flying, sewing, photography and collecting greeting cards.

The Black Achievers in Industry Award commemorates individuals with outstanding career and community endeavors.

Minister Ina Chapman has upwards of 30 years of experience at Roswell Park Cancer Center Institute. She is the founder of Western New York Health Information Network and serves on the board of multiple organizations focused on preventive care and closing the wealth and health gap in underserved communities throughout the city of Buffalo.

The Buffalo News wrote about Minister Ina Chapman and the 29 other honorees of the night. Click here for article.

Reverend Hale spoke up about the incidence of breast cancer and HIV/AIDS amongst black women and encourage the audience to get involved in community-led health initiatives.

Minister Ina Chapman was recognized for her dedication to community service. Alongside her husband, Reverend Michael Chapman, she has founded multiple organizations dedicated to educating residents of the Fruit Belt on preventive care practices and facilitating access to fresh organic foods.

The Buffalo News’ Deidre Williams wrote about the event. Click here for article.

St. John Baptist Church, one of the largest churches in the city of Buffalo, is scheduled to hold a ceremony in honor of the First Lady of the church, Ina Rebecca Doss Chapman.The event will take place on Saturday, September 13 at 11:30 a.m at the Creekside Banquet Facility in Cheektowaga. Ladies planing to attend are asked to wear white.