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David Yan is the Pastor at Emmanuel Church Auckland - New Zealand
In the 1960's, while David Yan was a young Auckland University student he was wonderfully converted to Christ. This lead to a call to preach Christ and plant Churches. On completion of his studies, he traveled to South Wales and studied at Barry Bible College (now Wales Evangelical School of Theology). Upon finishing His studies, he was ordained to the gospel ministry by Joseph Hewitt who himself served for many years as a gospel minister in the U.K. He was commissioned to Church plant in New Zealand.
David returned to Auckland in the 1970's and began church planting. Soon Emmanuel Church was founded as young university students from Singapore where befriended and converted to Christ, became the founding members of this young Church.
Over time three sister churches have been planted. The first was in Singapore. Some of David's original converts who returned after their studies to their native Singapore founded Shalom Church.
The second was Shore Baptist Church in Auckland, planted and pastored by Stephen Turner. The third church plant is a daughter church of Shalom church; Woodlands Church planted a few years ago. Close links still exist between David and Emanuel and Shalom Church in Singapore. Every year David travels to Singapore and Malaysia to preach the gospel to his original converts and a new generation of Christians God is raising up in Singapore and Malaysia. David is also a leader among the growing reformed Baptist movement of churches in New Zealand.
David is also a founding Pastor of the Fellowship of New Zealand Reformed Baptist. David's Christian heroes are Martyn Lloyd-Jones and John Bunyan. He is single and lives in the inner Auckland suburb of Mt Eden. Emanuel Church also meets in this strategic part of Auckland city.
He is much loved by many Christians in New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia for his passion to preach the gospel, mentor new young preachers and see the cause of Christ triumphant throughout New Zealand and Asia.
A collection of Video Messages of David Yan can be found at the Christian Library