Rick Warren is a global strategist, philanthropist, pastor and author. His book The Purpose Driven Life is the best-selling hardback in American history. It has sold more than 30 million copies in English and is published in more than 50 languages.
In 1980, Warren founded Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., with one other family. Today it is one of America’s most influential congregations, with more than 100,000 names on the church roll and 20,000 people attending services each weekend on a 120-acre campus. In addition, the church offers more than 300 ministries and support groups for parents, families, children, couples, prisoners, addicts, and people living with HIV/AIDS, depression, MS, Parkinson’s, autism, and many other conditions.
Warren built the Purpose Driven Network, a global alliance of pastors from 162 countries and hundreds of denominations who have been trained to be purpose-driven churches. He also founded Pastors.com, an online interactive community that provides sermons, forums and other practical resources for pastors—including archives of a biweekly newsletter sent to more than 100,000 pastors and ministry leaders.
Warren and his wife, Kay, give away 90 percent of their income. They are passionate about global missions and what he calls “attacking the five global giants” of poverty, disease, spiritual emptiness, self-serving leadership and illiteracy. His solution—The Peace Plan—is a massive effort to mobilize Christians around the world into an outreach effort to attack these five global giants by promoting reconciliation, equipping servant leaders, assisting the poor, caring for the sick and educating the next generation.
Warren earned a bachelor’s degree from California Baptist University, a master’s in divinity from Southwestern Theological Seminary and a doctorate in ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. He has lectured at Oxford; Cambridge; Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; the United Nations; the Global Health Summit; the Aspen Ideas Institute; TED; and numerous world congresses. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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