People like Francis Chan

Francis Chan (born August 31, 1967), is an American Protestant author, teacher, and preacher in evangelical churches and related settings. He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, which he founded in 1994. He also founded Eternity Bible College in 2004, and served as its early chancellor until 2010, and has been a board member of several Christian and social justice organizations, including Children's Hunger Fund and Gospel for Asia.

Chan was born in San Francisco to immigrants Pak-sum Chan [陳柏森], a former minister at the Leighton Road Baptist Church in Hong Kong, and Wan-bing Mui [梅韻冰], 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 [藩], who was named for the city of his birth and of the tragedy.