Yvan Castanou is the co-founder and senior pastor of Impact Centre Chrétien which brings together 20,000 people every Sunday - people within around thirty local churches spread throughout the French-speaking world. There are also around ten thousand connected Internet users. Yvan Castanou is also an author and producer to whom we owe in particular texts and audio CDs “Let's Pray Together”, books “Now That's Enough, It Has to Change!” “Are You Thinking of Marriage? How to Make the Right Choice?”, as well as the “Born Again to Rule Again” book collections.
Yvan Castanou was born on June 22, 1971, in Reims in France with a Congolese family. With his twin brother Yves Castanou, he began his primary studies in Congo, when his family returned a few years after his birth. After obtaining his baccalaureate in Pointe-Noire, he moved to France to continue his university studies.
He studied mathematics and obtained a DEUG A in the subject, which he completed with a DUT in Business and Administration Management (GEA), before graduating from the Reims Management School - Class of 1995 Yvan Castanou is married to Modestine who supports him in his ministry. Together, they share the message of God's unconditional love and his infinite hope to huge crowds throughout the French-speaking world. They are the parents of four children.
A year later, in 1996, Yvan Castanou experienced the new Christian birth, converted and served Jesus Christ. To better understand the Scriptures, he trained with a first biblical course in England, before continuing with biblical training at the Institut Biblique de Paris and at the Academy of Hautes Études Théologique et Pastorales de Paris.
March 2004, he was officially ordained a pastor with his wife Modestine, by pastors Emmanuel Toussaint of the Protestant and Evangelical World Council of Churches and André Thobois of the Protestant Federation of France and Knight of the Legion of Honor
Pastor and teacher, Yvan Castanou, through his teachings, seeks to lead people to love God and cherish His presence through times of prayer and prophetic worship. He is also the founding director of Impact École Biblique Internationale.