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He returned to California to begin a church planting movement in San Francisco. He is currently a pastor of the We Are Church house church network that is spreading through Northern California.
After attending the Master's College north of Los Angeles, where he earned a seminary degree, Chan landed a youth pastor position at the Church at Rocky Peak in Chatsworth, California, a short drive from Simi Valley.
Francis Chan is a popular preacher and teacher and is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, which he and his wife started in 1994.
He was born in San Francisco's Chinatown, but his mother died as she was giving birth to him. His dad remarried, but when he Chan was 8 his step mother died in a car accident. Then, his dad died of cancer when he was 12. 'By the time I was in junior high I was thinking, "Man, life is short,"' Chan said.
SIMI VALLEY—To accommodate an overflow of worshippers at its existing facility, a 6-year-old Simi Valley church is going ahead with expansion plans that would more than double its current size. Receiving unanimous approval from the Simi Valley Planning Commission last week, leaders of the nondenominational Cornerstone Community Church said the expansion is necessary to serve a membership that has grown from 30 people to 1,600.
The Rev. Francis Chan leads one of the largest churches in Ventura County, Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley. He, too, argues that abortion is a hugely important issue but said many evangelicals are no longer pushing just one hot button. 'There are a mounting number of believers who are looking at other issues,' he said, listing social justice issues like caring for the poor.
The Rev. Francis Chan leads one of the largest churches in Ventura County, Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley. He, too, argues that abortion is a hugely important issue but said many evangelicals are no longer pushing just one hot button. 'There are a mounting number of believers who are looking at other issues,' he said, listing social justice issues like caring for the poor.
