David Mainse

Who is David Mainse?

David Mainse is a Canadian televangelist and evangelical Christian leader.

Born in August 1936 in Campbell's Bay, Quebec. He was raised in a rural area near Ottawa, Ontario then continued his education at Sudbury Secondary in Sudbury. Mainse was highly influenced by his father Roy Lake Mainse who worked as a missionary in Egypt then as a Holiness Movement Church pastor in Ontario and Quebec.

Mainse determined to go into ministry while still a teenager. He studied theology at Eastern Pentecostal Bible College in Peterborough, Ontario and was Ordained. He met and married Norma-Jean Rutledge in 1958, pastored Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada churches in Brighton, Deep River and Hamilton.

He began his communications ministry in 1962 with a 15-minute program following the late night news on affiliate CHOV in Pembroke, Ontario, while he pastored in Deep River. He later began a television program called Crossroads. The program expanded quietly to stations across the country but with minimal penetration into the American heartland.

In 1975 Mainse left the pastorate to focus full time on television and evangelism projects.