David Mainse

David Mainse
Born	1936 Campbell's Bay, Quebec, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	broadcaster

David Mainse (born 1936) is a Canadian televangelist and evangelical Christian leader. He is the founder of Crossroads Christian Communications and host of the long-running Christian talk show 100 Huntley Street.

Mainse was 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 (1896–1972) 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 (now Master's College and Seminary) in Peterborough, Ontario and was ordained. He pastored Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada churches in Brighton, Deep River and Hamilton. He met and married Norma-Jean Rutledge in 1958.

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 gradually expanded to stations across Canada, but with minimal penetration into the American heartland.

In 1975 Mainse left the pastorate to focus full-time on television and evangelism projects. He began the ministry known as Crossroads Christian Communications in the early seventies with Circle Square, a children's telecast that has been carried in over 50 countries and continues to be shown in some. David later made the fictional ranch a reality as the summer camp, Circle Square Ranch. At its paramount there were 11 Circle Square Ranches across Canada.

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