Pastor Rick Warren , who founded Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.
They were interviewed by Pastor Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church in Orange County, and the questions he asked were more personal than political.
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.
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.
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.
Warren's Saddleback Valley Community Church said in a statement that Matthew Warren had struggled with mental illness and deep depression throughout his life.
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?
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.
But if there's an evangelical church where Obama could get a good reception, Saddleback would be it.
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.
Only in 1995, when the church had grown to 10, 000 worshippers per weekend, did Warren erect Saddleback's own building.
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.
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.
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