STORIES OF IMPACT
Read stories about how The PEACE Plan is impacting communities locally and globally.

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Supporting the Vulnerable: A Rwandan Church Keeps Families Intact
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their…

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Pastor Straton’s Church Cares for the Sick
We are taught to be “Christ-like,” but what does that really mean? It means loving those who are in pain,…

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Welcome to the Family: Young Man Living with HIV Finds Community in the Church
When Jacob’s friend invited him to Saddleback Church four years ago, he reluctantly agreed to go. He wasn’t sure what…

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A Home in Our Hearts: Local Church’s Adoption Support Group Brings Life Change
When Linda and her husband Les married, they knew they wanted to start a family right away. After countless doctor’s…

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Church Outside the Walls
On Palm Sunday, Oak Ridge Baptist Church in Maryland cancelled all services, sending members into the community to participate in service projects across three counties.

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Sharing PEACE One Box at a Time
Saddleback Church is just one of thousands of churches that strives to live out love in action. The PEACE Plan…

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Rwandan Pastors Remember Tragedy and Celebrate Change
Over 14 years ago, the local churches of Rwanda partnered with Saddleback Church to begin a movement of ordinary church…

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Hope in the Ashes
On November 8, 2018 the small town of Paradise was hit by the deadliest and most destructive fire in California…

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American Churches Partner with Leaders of 48 African Nations
Church leaders from 12 American churches convened with church leaders from 19 African nations, Costa Rica, and Brazil, in Kigali…

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From the Street to the Fastest Growing Church in Costa Rica
It was 1996 when Rudy Corea started leading the youth ministry at Central Baptist Church in Heredia, Costa Rica. Abandoning…

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Finding PEACE
When Joel and Paige Assaraf met in Georgia, they never thought their differing religious beliefs would have such an impact on their relationship. After years of praying for her husband, Paige learned that not only did Joel convert, but he wanted their family to leave everything behind to share the PEACE Plan in Rwanda.

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How a Fast-Growing Church Became a Healthy-Growing Church
When ISIS took control in 2014, Christian Missionary Alliance in Erbil jumped from 50 to 200 members. Word spread that the church brought hope to displaced families. While church growth was never a problem, it was church health that Pastor Baythoon was seeking. And then, an email from the Purpose Driven Team changed everything.

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PEACE Missions Gathering Empowers Churches for Change
The Purpose Driven movement is built on a partnership of churches, mobilizing members to change the world. This vision for global impact is only possible with help of International Partnering Churches uniting with foreign countries. You won’t believe what partnerships were just formed!

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Building Purpose Driven Churches in the Middle East
When Nabil Banbak heard God calling him into ministry, he never thought it would take him from Jordan to California. But God had big plans in store — to use Nabil to equip Arabic-speaking churches in the Purpose Driven movement.

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Wrong Place at the Right Time
As a former Marine, Brandon dodged plenty of bullets to save the lives of others. He protected two U.S. Presidents, served in Iraq, and worked in law enforcement. But it’s his commitment to Christ that took him to the frontlines of ministry after Hurricane Harvey and the Vegas shooting.

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Saddleback Hong Kong PEACE Box Campaign
The goal of any Purpose Driven Church is to balance all five purposes, including missions through PEACE. That's why Saddleback’s Hong Kong campus put outreach into action by hosting the PEACE Box Campaign—their signature event that serves 15,000 low-income families in need.

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Bringing Living Water to Botswana
After receiving an invitation to become an International Partnering Church, Pastor Kurt Bubna prayed about the role Eastpoint Church might play in the big picture. That’s when God gave him a vision of an aquifer running below the continent. In the midst of the dry land was one mighty spring flowing for anyone willing to dig a well for the Kingdom of God.

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PDC Conference Hong Kong 2018
Hong Kong Purpose Driven Church Conference 2018 When it comes to growing churches together on mission, the Purpose Driven Church…

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Purpose Driven From Arkansas to Zambia
When Allan Greer committed to pastoring Parkway Place Baptist Church in 1996, he made sure that building relationships were a key focus of his ministry. Little did he know that key would unlock a transformational relationship with the entire nation of Zambia.

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This is What I was Made to Do
When Pastor Kurt Bubna of Eastpoint Church first visited Botswana, he knew it would become part of his God-given destiny. Now, after two years he's trained over 100 African pastors in Purpose Driven Essentials. Read his personal story here!
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