After asking for nearly $1M in donations, pastor Rick Warren calls response ‘history-making’
By APSaturday, January 2, 2010
California pastor calls donations ‘history-making’
LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Evangelical pastor Rick Warren calls the response to his appeal for donations to his Orange County megachurch “history-making.”
In a New Year’s posting on the Saddleback Church Web site Friday, Warren said parishioners called in and dropped off contributions in droves. Warren didn’t specify how much money was raised. He said he’ll talk about the response in a Sunday sermon called “The Miracle.”
On Wednesday Warren asked parisioners to help fill a $900,000 deficit by the first of the year.
Warren is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling “The Purpose Driven Life.”
He founded Saddleback Church in 1980 in Lake Forest, about 65 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
