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Francis Chan Biography and Wiki
Francis Chan is a Protestant author, educator, and preacher from the United States. He was the previous teaching pastor of Chan’s Simi Valley, California-based Evangelical congregation, Cornerstone Community Church, which was established in 1994. In addition, he established Eternity Bible College in 2004. From 2004 to 2010, he served as its first chancellor.
Francis Chan Age and Birthday
How old is Francis Chan? Francis is 55 years old as of 2022. He was born on 31 August 1967 in San Francisco, California, United States. He celebrates his birthday on 31 August every year.
Francis Chan Nationality and Ethnicity
What ethnicity is Francis Chan? Francis is of American, Hong Kong nationality. He was born in San Francisco, California, United States. He is of mixed race/ethnicity. READ ALSO: Alistair Begg
Francis Chan Parents and Family
Chan was born in Hong Kong to Wan-bing Mui, a “Bible woman of the Hong Kong Baptist Church, Caine Road,” and Pak-sum Chan, a former minister of the Leighton Road Baptist Church. His father was left with his sister Grace, brother Paul, and the newborn Francis, who was named for the city of his birth and of the tragedy. He was their third child; his mother passed away during his birth of him from “excessive bleeding.”
Chan was transported to Hong Kong to be reared for a number of years by a Buddhist grandmother. When his father wed Amy Law, Francis was given a half-sister named Gloria. Chan’s stepmother Amy Chan passed away in a car accident when he was eight years old, in 1976. When his father later remarried, Josephine Leung [] “raised [the] four children lovingly with Godly influence,” as said by his father. His father’s younger sister and her husband, Marion and William Wong, as well as a sizable extended family and church family, assisted his father and new stepmother in rearing the four.
Francis Chan Wife
Is Francis Chan married? Chan is married to Lisa Chan, a singer. As of December 2014, they had seven children after being married in 1994.
Francis Chan Children
Francis Chan Height
Francis stands at an average height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.72 m).
Francis Chan Net Worth
How rich is Francis Chan? Francis has an estimated net worth of $300 Thousand.
Francis Chan Crazy Love
Francis and publisher David C Cook are the authors of the 2008 New York Times #1 book Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God. Hawk Nelson’s album Crazy Love features a song with the same title that was inspired by the book, which also won the Retailers Choice Award for the best Christian Living book in 2009. The book Crazy Love explores the concept of the typical Christian’s love for God and how to transform that love into a “crazy, relentless, all-powerful love.”
Crazy Love has received generally favorable reviews, with Publishers Weekly giving it a high rating. Crazy Love is “a message that Christians sorely need to hear,” according to Challies.com. While the writing in the entire book is straightforward and understandable, Bookreporter.com noted that “his dynamic communication style does not fully translate to print,” but that overall the book was “certainly worth reading.”
Francis Chan Church
In 1994, Chan, his wife Lisa, and 30 other people started Cornerstone Community Church; within two months, there were 100 attendees. The congregation at the church kept growing, and by the year 2000, local officials had given their approval for a building addition that would have doubled the facility’s capacity and supported a 1,600-member congregation. In Ventura County, California, Cornerstone was one of the biggest churches as of January 2008.
Around the year 2008, Chan took a three-month leave from Cornerstone because he felt compelled to give more of himself to God. Chan contributed the majority of his book revenues, which amounted to around $2,000,000, to various charities and gave away roughly 50% of his income. He also refused to receive a salary from his church. All of it is donated to groups that help free sex slaves abroad. Furthermore, it was revealed in 2008 that Cornerstone will donate 55% of its earnings to philanthropic organizations.
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With 100 students, Chan launched Eternity Bible College in 2004 as a ministry of Cornerstone Community Church. Eternity began offering a program in Ecuador in 2008. 47 graduates from the college were working in different regions of the world as of 2009. Chan informed his congregation that he was called to step down on Sunday, April 18, 2010. He claimed he felt called to San Francisco, California, in June 2011. He relocated to Northern California and established the “We Are Church” network of home churches. Chan joined the Abundant Life Christian Fellowship board of elders in September 2014; he left the congregation as an elder in August 2016. Up until 2020, he was a senior leader in the We Are Church network.
Francis Chan Catholics
Chan had spoken to Catholics at the (Neo-charismatic Protestant) Onething conference in 2018 before making this change about the Eucharist, and several Catholic priests had prayed over him. He gave a speech at the SEEK conference for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students in February 2021.
Francis Chan Books
- Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God. David C. Cook
- Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
- Halfway Herbert
- The Big Red Tractor and the Little Village
- Erasing Hell: What God said about eternity, and the things we made up
- Multiply
- The Road We Must Travel
- You and Me Forever: Marriage in the Light of Eternity
- Letters to the Church
- Until Unity
