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Just over a week to go, grab your tickets this weekend while you still can!
An evening with Francis Chan is drawing ever closer and people are starting to snap up tickets after returning from holidays. There has been a huge surge in ticket sales over the last week, you will need to be quick if you still want a chance of attending this event. Get online and book or pop down to one of the christian bookshops selling the tickets this weekend.
Leaders gathering
Are you a leader in your church? If so Francis and his wife will be holding a leaders gathering between 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm before the evening event. This gathering will be free and will be a chance for Chan and his wife to share a little bit of what is on their heart and take questions. Refreshements will be served from 3.45 pm. If you would like to come please get in touch with Matthew Evans on email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or text 07867 990764. Please don't just turn up unnannounced as places are limited.
THIS IS THE ONLY STAND ALONE DATE FRANCIS CHAN IS DOING WHILST IN THE UK SO THERE IS HUGE INTEREST FROM ALL AROUND THE UK
An Evening with Francis Chan with worship from the Rend Collective Experiment.
Tuesday, 7th September 2010 at City Temple, Swansea Elim, Dyfatty Street, Swansea, SA1 1QQ
Doors open at 7.00pm
Tickets £8 and available at the following outlets:
Online (booking fees apply) at:
Locally at:
Link Christian Bookshop, Skewen (01792) 817079
EMW Christian Bookshop, Swansea Market (01792) 650773
Cornerstone Christian Bookshop, Llanelli (01554) 775402
Thinking of bringing a large group from your church? Get in touch with Matthew Evans on 07867 990764
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Francis Chan Bio
Francis is one of the most in demand speakers around at the moment, Chan is an American preacher. He is the former pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, CA, a Christian church he and his wife started in 1994. He is also the Founder and Chancellor of Eternity Bible College
he has recently spoken at
- Hillsong Conference, Sydney
- Willowcreek Arts Conference, Chicago
- Passion conference Atlanta and World Tour alongside Louie Giglio and John Piper
- Worship Central Conference, London
- He will be speaking at the UCCF Forum conference in September
He is author of the best selling book Crazy Love
Plus his latest book Forgotten God
Chan has also just released the first in a series of a series of DVDs entitled BASIC. This initial DVD will look at Fearing God and is called FEAR.
Some of you may have read about Francis in the latest edition of Christianity magazine, here is a snippet of it to give you a taste of the type of guy Chan is:
Why is mega-church pastor and bestselling author Francis Chan walking away from the limelight?
American mega-church pastors never go too far ‘off script’ in my experience. I’ve interviewed a few over the years and once you’re past the well-oiled PR machine you’ll usually find a personable and interesting individual. Even so, I’ve never got very far past the inevitable ‘beware-of-journalists’ firewall and their responses are usually fairly predictable.
Speaking to Francis Chan however, it doesn’t feel like there’s a script. The Hong Kong-born pastor wears his heart on his sleeve and treats our conversation as an opportunity to evaluate his own faith journey. He is remarkably honest about his personal fallibility and seems restless to identify any part of his life that isn’t totally devoted to God. Similarly, he’s not afraid to own up to the limitations of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California which he started 14 years ago and has now grown to over 6,000 in attendance. ‘There are plenty of people there who are not real,’ he says, as he acknowledges the growing discomfort of hearing his own name more often on the lips of his congregation than the name of Jesus. Partly in response, he has decided to move on from the church and seek a new path he believes God has for him and his family.
The details are not yet in place, but he seems to relish the opportunity of rediscovering his identity aside from being a megachurch pastor and bestselling author. ‘I want to be obscure for a while,’ he says, seemingly oblivious to the irony of that statement given that his UK visit is, for his publisher at least, a chance to raise awareness of Chan beyond the USA. Chan’s first book Crazy Love has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the States, and Forgotten God, which focuses on the Holy Spirit, is expected to do similarly well, along with a DVD series Basic.
Francis has been involved in a number of video projects, click on the link to see his big red tractor parable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mite667rJnA
Francis is part of the speaking team at Passion conferences alongside Louie Giglio and John Piper, he has also spoken a number of times at Worship Central and Holy Trinity Brompton, click the link to see him speak the last time he came to HTB http://www.htb.org.uk/sunday-talks/guest-speaker Here is a very challening clip where Francis talks about the new middle road! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7MdYV8gRws