10 Things You Don’t Know About Pastor Rick Warren

Pastor Rick Warren

Pastor Rick Warren is the founder and senior Pastor of Saddleback Church which is a church he founded with his wife and 7 members in 1980. It is a great Evangelical Mega-church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention in Lake Forest, Carolina, which is the sixth-largest Mega church in the USA.

He is the author of so many inspiring Christian books, including “The Purpose Driven Church” and “The Purpose Driven Life” which sold more than 30 million copies.

The pastor alongside his wife, founded the P.E.A.C.E plan, A humanitarian development program church. Rick has coached a great number of Pastors and Evangelist in building a purpose driven church.

He is a father, a husband and a grand father.

10 Things You Don’t Know About Pastor Rick Warren Include:

  1. He was born on Jan. 28th, 1954 in San Jose California to his parent Jimmy and Dot Warren who were a Baptist Minister and a high school Librarian respectively.

  2. He was raised in Ukiah, California.

  3. Warren married his wife Kay Warren after courting her shortly on 21st June 1975, both at the age of 21.

  4. He founded the Saddleback Church with his wife Kay Warren in 1980, at the age of  26 at Orange County California.

  5. His wife Kay Warren, was a victim of sexual abuse as a small child from the hands of a church janitor, when she was just four to five years old.

  6. Kay also battled with breast cancer diagnosis.

  7. Rick Warren alongside his wife Kay has three Children: Amy, Joshua and Matthew Warren. Matthew later took his own life in 2013, after suffering from mental illness.

  8. Warren’s youngest son, 27 year old Matthew, took his own life on the 16th of April, 2013, after struggling for 10 years with mental illness. He died from self inflicted gunshot  injury.

  9. In 2008, He hosted a Civil Forum on The Presidency during the 2008 Presidential election which was attended by both Sen. John McCain and then Senator Barack Obama at his Saddleback church.

  10. Rick and his wife Kay had a miserable marriage in their early years of marriage before they decided to seek out counselling and then began to enjoy a blissful marriage.

Pastor Rick Warren’s official website is pastorrick.com

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