Warren said his condition worsened during the pandemic, and he found it more and more difficult to do multiple services. Every time it hits me, my vision goes very blurry. At the time, he described it as almost like a poison and said, “I have spasms and tremors and shaking when that hits. Last year, Warren told his congregation that his decision to step down as lead pastor was partially driven by a rare version of spinal myoclonus he’s been battling most of his life that is made much worse by adrenaline and stress. Pastor Rick Warren to hold 4th Civil Forum.Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren is focused on keeping religion relevant 40 years after his first Easter service.Saddleback Church raising $71 million for its largest expansion yet.Saddleback pastor speaks on faith-based AIDS fight.Kay Warren shares her grief over son’s suicide.There are four international campuses: in Hong Kong, Germany, the Philippines and Argentina. With its main campus in Lake Forest, Saddleback Church has grown to 14 locations in Southern California, with an average weekly attendance of 30,000, and more than 7,000 small groups meeting in homes.
“We’ve been so blessed by their friendship, and after months of prayer and seeking counsel from others, we believe that God has called us together to step into serving at Saddleback Church.” “For decades, we have admired and respected Pastor Rick and Kay Warren and their work through the Purpose Driven Church model has been critical,” Andy Wood said in a statement. Warren invited Wood to preach at Saddleback Church in March and said that was when he decided that Wood “fit all the qualifications on his list.” The book details Warren’s plans for launching Saddleback Church, and preceded his national bestselling “Purpose Drive Life.” Wood, who has called Warren a mentor and was educated in the same seminary as Warren in Texas, said he was inspired by the “Purpose Driven Church,” Warren’s church-planting book. Wood describes his mission for Echo.Church as a “church that communicated the timeless truths of Scripture in a way that could be practically applied and understood, even for those who felt irreligious and far from God.” Fourteen years later, the church has 3,000 attendees and three campuses across the San Francisco Bay area and an online presence. They wanted their church to impact Silicon Valley. The Woods were called to San Jose, picking that community because it was “diverse, influential and had the potential to echo the message of Jesus to the rest of the world,” they say in their biography. “At that moment, God whispered, ‘That’s where I want you to invest your life growing a new church,’” Warren said. His gaze was “strangely frozen” on the word Saddleback, he said. He said he poured over census charts and maps and took note of the Saddleback Valley. Warren graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. Much like Warren and his wife, Kay, both 68, Wood, 40, and his wife, Stacie, a teaching pastor at Echo.Church, also took a cross-country road trip from Texas to start their ministry. Warren said he looked for “a proven leader” and someone who exemplified “the biblical qualities described in the books of 1st Timothy and Titus.” And, someone who is can lead a church with the impact of Saddleback.
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