Michael Eaton was the fourth pastor of Lusaka Baptist Church from 1976 to 1977. He was a good expository preacher/teacher and prolific writer of many Christian books including commentaries on a number of books of the Bible.
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Michael Eaton was born in 1941. He came from a very ordinary family in London. He became a Christian (late 1950s) when he was a teenager through a youth group in an Evangelical Anglican Church. The Billy Graham campaigns in London may also have played some part in his salvation.
He did his Bachelor of Divinity at Tyndale House Cambridge. He then entered the ministry as a curate (assistant minister) at an Anglican church in Surrey, England. In 1967, he resigned from the Anglican ministry on theological grounds and joined an Evangelical Free Church in south-west London. In March 1969 he moved to Zambia where he and his wife Jenny joined Lusaka Baptist Church and later became a deacon and an elder. From early days in the church he taught an adult bible class, and preached frequently on Sundays. He studied for a year at UNZA doing a teaching diploma. He began teaching English at Libala Secondary School in 1970 and remained there until 1976. In 1976 he became the pastor of LBC when Graham Ingram moved to Cape Town.
Throughout his ten years of residence in Zambia he used his gift as a Bible expositor in building up Christian groups at UNZA, speaking at student conferences, church conferences, starting the Zambia branch of the Evangelical Library, counselling and inspiring many individuals. Michael Eaton has written more than forty Christian books, most of them specially written with African young people in mind; but they have a much wider circulation. His doctoral research at the University of South Africa was on the Christian and the Mosiac law. Michael has a longstanding connection with Westminster Chapel in London and has written on the theology of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. He has lectured in the Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa, Nairobi Evangelical School of Theology and Nairobi International School of Theology. After a brief period back in England studying and writing, he became pastor of Nairobi Baptist Church from about 1978-1982. He then moved to South Africa to pastor Rouxville Baptist Church, Johannesburg where he pioneered multiracial ministry.
Michael has been pastor of Chrisco Christian Fellowship in Nairobi since 1986. He married Jenny whom he met in the UK in 1968. Jenny was born in Kenya though she is originally from England. They have two sons and two daughters i.e. Tina is married to Roger Gysling and lives in Switzerland, Calvin is in London, Carey married Stephanie in 2003 and they live in Australia. Trevecca married Jason Tiro in 2005. They also live in Australia.
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