Dan Fosnight was appointed to serve as Emmanuel Baptist Church of Sun City's Senior Pastor November 2014. Prior to that, he served as Chaplain of Baptist Village in Youngtown, AZ.

The attributes that best describe Pastor Dan as a pastor are strong preaching, leadership development and counseling. He has expressed a burning desire to lead a church like Emmanuel Baptist Church of Sun City where biblical views are embraced and encouraged, with members who care about the needs of those around them and who want to connect others to the body of Christ. Pastor Dan takes worship and preaching very seriously, spending the first hours of his day focused on Bible study.

He graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY  in 1989 with a Master's Degree in Divinity.

Pastor Dan has been happily married for the past 40 years to his wife, Sally. They have two adult daughters and five grandsons.

Mike was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and accepted Christ as Savior and was baptized just before his eighth birthday at First Southern Baptist Church, Yuma, Arizona. As a high school freshman, he felt a call to ministry. He graduated from Grand Canyon College with a degree in Business Administration and received a Master’s in Religious Education from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, California while serving churches on a bivocational basis in pastoral, music, youth, Christian education, and/or pastoral counseling. While working on a Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Counseling and teaching theology at Southern California Theological Seminary, he received an honorary Doctor of Literature and completed a Doctor of Ministry degree in December, 1990. 

His wife, the former Betty White of Eloy, Arizona, is a retired church business administrator and works part-time as a church secretary. She is a talented singer and speaker. They have led marriage enrichment workshops. They have a son, Keith, on staff of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of North Phoenix, he and his wife Allison, a chemist for the City of Phoenix have given them two grandchildren. Their daughter, Diann, who lost her battle with brain cancer in 2015, was the mother of six more grandchildren. They also have a growing number of great grandchildren. Mike is excited to be back leading the congregation and choir in music, especially the great hymns of the faith.