Saddleback has grown to 15, 000 members and has helped start another 60 churches throughout the world.
But if there's an evangelical church where Obama could get a good reception, Saddleback would be it.
My favorite pony was called Saddleback, a tough, locally bred pony from a hill station called Mahabaleshwar .
Only in 1995, when the church had grown to 10, 000 worshippers per weekend, did Warren erect Saddleback's own building.
Were it a business, Saddleback would be compared with Dell, Google or Starbucks.
Mr. JEFF AVIS (Saddleback Member): He didn't even have to think of a lot of the answers to his questions.
The President, when he was running for President, at Saddleback said that he supported an increase of a billion dollars a year.
Pastor Rick Warren , who founded Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.
Warren's Saddleback Valley Community Church said in a statement that Matthew Warren had struggled with mental illness and deep depression throughout his life.
Bible-centered churches, especially those with a leavening therapeutic touch, such as Saddleback and Willow Creek in suburban Chicago, are the country's fastest growing.
They were interviewed by Pastor Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church in Orange County, and the questions he asked were more personal than political.
Saddleback has spawned dozens of so-called daughter churches throughout the country.
Warren--in 1980 and from scratch--launched Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif.
Warren, founder of the 15, 000-member Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.
The elder Warren founded Saddleback Church in 1980, according to his biography on the church website, and over the years watched it grow to 20, 000 members.
Mr. MIKE BRIGA (Saddleback Member): The two candidates, I felt, were as different as they could be, but I think either of them will make fantastic presidents.
Ms. DONNA THOMONSON (Saddleback Member): The support for the everyday person and the compassion for people who are struggling, and that just continues to resonate with me.
According to the Baltimore Sun, the show tapped Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback Church in Southern California, to serve as an adviser for the show.
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At Saddleback church, Rick Warren preaches that abortion is wrong.
Under his leadership, the church has become the fastest-growing one in America. (Saddleback is a Southern Baptist evangelical church, by the way.) Weekends bring in an average of 15, 000 worshippers.
To accommodate Saddleback's continual growth, Warren used 79 different facilities for functions in the church's first 15 years--schools, bank buildings, recreation centers, theaters, restaurants, large homes, even a 2, 300-seat tent.
Pastor RICK WARREN (Founder and Leader, Saddleback Valley Community Church): What would be the greatest moral failure in your life, and what would be the greatest moral failure of America?
As Saddleback has grown over the years, it has spread out from its Lake Forest headquarters, 65 miles southeast of Los Angeles, adding several other campuses and ministries around Southern California.
Matthew, the youngest of Warren's children, worked at the Saddleback Resources Warehouse, which distributes books and DVDs and was "an important part of the church but played a quiet role, " Krumm said.
Warren, who founded Saddleback with his wife 33 years ago, gave the invocation at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and penned "The Purpose-Driven Life, " a Christian self-help guide that became a mainstream best-seller.
Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church in southern California, sent e-mails to thousands of church pastors around the world pitching the "40 Days of Purpose" program, which included a sermon and discussion group notes.
In fact, following the success of his book, A Purpose Driven Life, he stopped taking a salary from his church and even gave back the salary he earned during his first 25 years with Saddleback.
Here the Ashbridge family lovingly nurtures native English breeds such as Gloucester Old Spot and Saddleback pigs, and Longhorn and Dexter cattle, the latter known for its creamy yellow fat and the marbling in its meat.
Rarely do the journalists and campaign staffers that travel with McCain hear him freely use such religious language, and if the senator is obliged to chat about faith, he usually appears genuinely eager to move on to something else, which made his self-assured performance at Saddleback all the more striking.
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