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Greatboy777 (talk) 14:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)Patrick Mapalo was born in Zambia, Africa. He had 13 siblings in his family, 6 boys and the rest girls. His father Cornelius Chibesa did his primary education in Luapula province and later went to do his Acconting degree at Leeds Polytechnic in England. His mother Ngosa Harawa did her education in the Northern province where she obtained her primary teachers certificate. She worked as a teacher until her retirement in 1988.

Patrick Mapalo did his primary school at Justin Kabwe, Miseshi all located in the town of Kitwe on the copperbelt. For a brief moment he went to Mpika district in the Northern province and stayed with his elder sister Mildred and went to Chikwanda primary school. In 1983 he started his secondary school education until 1987 when he completed. From 1987 to 1999 he served as a evangelist preaching the good news of Jesus Christ in the rural and urban area of Zambia. He obtained his diploma in Systematic theology from Trans-Africa Theological College a Ministry of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God in Africa in 1997.

In 1999, he started a company with a friend from Zimbabwe in educating young children in primary and high schools in educational tours. They undertook trips to Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Botswana. In the same year Patrick felt a calling to go to Namibia where he was offered a pastoral job instead chose to come to school in the United States at Christ of the Nations Institute in 2000. While at Christ of the Nations he worked for Dr. Dennis Lindsay the president of the school. In 2001 he met a young lady he was to marry later Tamra Ortiz. In 2001 he started working for a Christian Television Network called Daystar. He worked for Daystar until August 2005. While working at Daystar, he worked as a prayer partner and later a driver. After gaining some trust he would be sent to get market feedback from Daystar viewers in Africa.

In 2004 he also started his Bachelors with Dallas Baptist University were he obtained his Bachelors of Business Studies with a concentration in Management Information Systems and a minor in Business Administration 2007. In 2008 he started his MBA in Marketing and Project Management graduating in December 2009.