R.W. sits down with Daniel Yang and guest, Tom Planck, to discuss Daniel’s work with the World Relief organization and his passion for church multiplication. Daniel is slated to be the guest speaker at Launch 32, August 20, in Fort Wayne, IN. Registration is free, click here for more information!

Daniel Yang has helped and influenced church networks and movements across North America as a conference speaker, convener, and mission strategy consultant. He has planted churches and trained church planters in global cities in North America including Detroit, Dallas, Toronto, and Chicago.

Yang now serves as the National Director of Churches of Welcome for World Relief. Prior to that he was the director of the Church Multiplication Institute at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. Daniel has been a pastor, church planter, engineer and technology consultant. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, an M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is also the co-author of Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church (InterVarsity, May 2022) and Becoming a Future-Ready Church: 8 Shifts To Encourage and Empower the Next Generation of Leaders (Zondervan, October 2024).

Daniel and his wife, Linda, have five children.

Tom serves as the Director of Multiplication at Indiana Ministries. He is also the Chief Catalyst of Healthy Growing Churches and uses his leadership gifts to help church leaders on the local, regional and national level create a multiplication culture within their organization. With twenty plus years of ministry experience, he has led cohorts and coached pastors to spark intentional efforts for both disciple-making and church multiplication. Tom is married to his beautiful wife, Andrea, and has two grown children (Tytus & Hannah) and a daughter in law (Kelsey).