From December 6-8, Saddleback Church hosted over 500 people during the Finishing the Task Conference, moving us one step closer toward fulfilling the Great Commission.
In 2003, Rwandan President, Paul Kagame read The Purpose Driven Life. Nine years had passed since the genocide took the lives of one million Rwandans and left one million orphans. But President Kagame had a vision to make Rwanda the first Purpose Driven nation.
After Saddleback committed to equipping Rwanda as a Purpose Driven nation, 21 other churches have stepped forward to install the PEACE Plan and PD in African countries.
On October 27, the Purpose Driven Team hosted a gathering for 13 International Partnering Churches at Saddleback’s Rancho Capistrano campus. In attendance were 30 PD practitioners from the United States and Canada, currently coaching other churches in PD strategies.
As spectators celebrated the 2016 Olympics in Rio, injustice was alive and thriving as traffickers sold girls on the streets. In view of this imbalance, two Purpose Driven Churches in Rio partnered with an anti-human trafficking team from Saddleback Church to help the victims.
In 1992, Ngwiza Mnkandla, Bishop of Faith Ministries in Zimbabwe, was tasked with the challenge of overseeing 10,000 church plants in eight years. Once the numeric goal was met, he knew that quality had been sacrificed for quantity. Learn how PDC helped turn that around.
Bishop Samuel Mensah, President of Full Gospel Church International in Ghana, attended a PD Conference in Rwanda in 2016. It was there that he saw the impact of Purpose Driven strategies on nations, giving him hope to bring change to Ghana.
Tanzania’s Anglican Bishop Sospeter Ndenza traveled to a PD conference in search of hope. Learn how he is using PD tools to help impact his own country.
During a recent PEACE trip to Moscow, four members from Saddleback Church met with local pastors representing leaders from 50 other churches seeking Purpose Driven Church training. Find out how they equipped churches to effectively mobilize unreached communities.