Francis had spent a whole evening with them and didn’t have a hint of what they were really suffering. However, a few days later that couple’s serious marital issues became public knowledge. Francis enjoyed himself and thought the couple was doing fine, that is he assumed they were doing fine. One night, he went to dinner with one of those men and his wife. He wanted to pursue an image of the church where the members equally loved and edified one another.įrancis told the audience about times he’d deeply felt love for his fellow staff members at his church, but he admitted there were also times the same people were difficult to love. In fact, love led Francis to leave the mega church he’d founded. With a smile, Francis said, “I’ve got a series of seven questions that I ask myself, but … one I ask is, ‘Do I really love these people?’” Francis knew that he had made a name for himself, but he also knew that sometimes success must be sacrificed to serve God. A man standing nearby asked him how he prepared to speak to such large crowds. Success may draw people to us laying it aside may draw people to God.įrancis Chan shuffled behind the stage as he readied himself to speak to the crowded ballroom. Chan also serves on the board of World Impact-a ministry that “empowers urban leaders and partners with local churches to reach their cities with the Gospel.” He co-founded Multiply-a nationwide discipleship movement, and he serves on the board for Children’s Hunger Fund, which-since 1991-has distributed more than 1 billion dollars in food and other aid to more than 20 million children across America and around the world. But on this day in 2010, Chan resigned from the church he and his wife Lisa had started in 1994-so he could do more work, reach more people, love the least-loved among us. With Danae Yankoski,Ĭhan wrote Crazy Love and became a NY Times best-selling author. But Chan had been taught about Jesus, and he never let go.Ĭhan became a pastor, founded and grew a church, and attained fame. In his high-school years, his uncle killed Chan’s aunt and then himself.
By sixth grade, he’d lost his mother, his step-mother, and his father.
For the first five years of his life, Chan was raised in Hong Kong in a Buddhist home.
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