During this time, his father married Amy Law and gave Francis a half-sister, Gloria.
Ĭhan was sent to Hong Kong to be raised by a grandmother, a Buddhist for several years.
Biography Early life and education Ĭhan was born in San Francisco to immigrants Pak-sum Chan, a former minister at the Leighton Road Baptist Church in Hong Kong, and Wan-bing Mui, a “Bible woman of the Hong Kong Baptist Church, Caine Road.” He was their third child his mother died during his childbirth, of “excessive bleeding”, leaving his father with sister Grace, brother Paul, and newborn Francis, who was named for the city of his birth and of the tragedy. Chan has also served as an ambassador for Care for Children. He has authored and co-authored numerous books including Crazy Love, a New York Times bestseller. Ĭhan has been a board member of several Christian and social justice organizations, including Children's Hunger Fund and Gospel for Asia. He also founded Eternity Bible College in 2004, and served as its early chancellor until 2010. He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church, an Evangelical church in Simi Valley, California founded by Chan in 1994.
San Francisco, California, United States įrancis Chan (born August 31, 1967), is an American Protestant author, teacher, and preacher.
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