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The P.E.A.C.E. Plan has origins in the reading of an article on orphans of HIV/AIDS in Africa by Kay, the wife of Baptist pastor Rick Warren and a meeting in 2003 of the couple with a pastor of a township of Johannesburg in South Africa. [1] The program was founded in the same year by the Saddleback Church and Warren to combat five development ...
Well-known pastor and author Rick Warren recounts his call to full-time ministry as a 19-year-old student at California Baptist College, when in November 1973 he and a friend skipped classes and drove 350 miles to hear Criswell preach at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco. [7] Warren stood in line to shake hands with Criswell afterwards. [7]
The Lead Pastors are Neely McQueen and Patrick Swanson, [2] who previously served as pastors in Overlake's Student and Community Ministries, respectively. Mike Howerton, who was the "Next Generation" pastor at Saddleback Church (pastored by Rick Warren) in Orange County, California until 2004, served as Overlake's Lead Pastor until stepping down in 2020.
As of February 21, 2023, the church was removed from the SBC membership list due to the hiring of a female pastor in 2022, Stacie Wood, the wife of new senior pastor Andy Wood. [18] [19] [20] On May 16, the Southern Baptist Convention announced that Saddleback was seeking an appeal to be reinstated in fellowship. In June 2023, when it requested ...
The candidates each exposed their positions on a number of issues, including faith, abortion, evil, wealth, same-sex marriage, and stem-cell research. [7] The two struck common themes, but differed on their views of abortion; Obama said the answer was "above his pay grade" a comment he later regretted [8] and also told Warren the issue "scientifically" and "theologically" is not a black and ...
The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission is a 1995 book by Rick Warren, founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, United States. Summary
The first pastor, Rev. Floyd Hawkins, led the church from January 1955 to August 1959. He was followed by Rev. Guy A. Davidson who led the church until April 1963. Under his leadership the congregation of about 200 converted old turkey houses into their first church building. In 1964, Pastor G. L. Johnson replaced Davidson as head pastor. [1]
1950-1960 Pastor James Vold, 1961-1972 Pastor Arthur Larson, 1972-1983 Rev H.D. (Buddy) Arnold, 1986-1993 Pastor David Epstein, 1993-1998 Pastor David Bell, 1998-2012 Pastor Rick Reed, 2014-2015: Pastor Jay Klopfenstein; 2015-2016: Pastor Tim Auld; 2016-present: Pastor Jonathan Griffiths