Rick Warren Biography
Rick Warren ( born Richard Duane Warren) is an American Baptist evangelical Christian preacher, a motivational speaker, and one of America’s best-selling Christian authors. Saddleback Church was founded by him and he is the lead pastor. He also presented the Civil Forum on the Presidency, which featured back-to-back presidential candidate interviews with John McCain and Barack Obama. A global strategist, philanthropist, theologian, and pastor.
Rick Warren Career
He was called to full-time ministry at the age of nineteen, while still a student at California Baptist University, in 1973. He also traveled to San Francisco that year to hear Pastor W.A. Criswell preach. In 1980, he gave his first public service lecture at the Laguna Hills High School Theater, where he formed the Saddleback Church. The ceremony took place on Easter Sunday and was attended by 200 individuals. He authored ‘The Purpose Driven Church,’ a book for pastors and church leaders, in 1995. He emphasized the concept of God’s purpose rather than the ideology of the authorities on ministry in this work.
In 2002, he published a devotional book called ‘The Purpose Driven Life,’ which was released by Zondervan Christian media & publishing. He spoke at the TED worldwide series of conferences in 2006, and his congregation (the Saddleback Church) organized the Global Summit on AIDS same year, which Barack Obama attended.
He moderated the Civil Forum on the Presidency in August 2008, which featured back-to-back interviews between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. In 2010, he was one of the speakers at John Stephen Piper, a Calvinistic Baptist Christian preacher and author,’Desiring God’ conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He teamed together with the Readers Digest Association to develop the Purpose Driven Connection in 2009.
Rick Warren Age
How old is Warren? Pastor Rick was born as Richard Duane Warren on January 28, 1954, in San Jose, California, U.S. He is 68 years old as of 2022. He celebrates his birthday every 28th of January.
Rick Warren Education
Warren earned a bachelor’s degree in arts from California Baptist University in Riverside, a master’s degree in divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas (1979), and a doctorate in ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
Rick Warren Nationality | Ethnicity
What ethnicity is Warren? he belongs to the white ethnicity/heritage, Rick was born and raised n San Jose, California, in the United States of America, and he holds American nationality.
Rick Warren Family
Rick was born and raised in San Jose, California, in the United States of America, the son of Jimmy Warren, who was a Baptist minister, and Dot Warren, a high-school librarian.
Rick Warren Wife | Married
Warren is happily married to Kay Warren, an author, an international speaker. The two married on June 21, 1975, and are blessed with three adult children and four grandchildren.
Rick Warren | Kay Warren
His wife, who is of American descent, is a Bible teacher and a mental health advocate. She is a co-founder of Saddleback Church, the country’s sixth-largest evangelical megachurch. Her ministry’s headquarters are in Lake Forest, California.
Rick Warren | Children | Son
Warren’s youngest son Matthew committed suicide on April 6, 2013, after a ten-year battle with mental illness. Warren started a ministry nearly a year after his son’s suicide to educate the church on its role in supporting people with mental illness, and the Church Meeting in March 2014 was the first step in that direction. Warren claimed that more than 10,000 people in the church wrote to him about their mental illness struggles in the year following the death.
Rick Warren Net Worth
Warren has an estimated net worth of $25 million which he has acquired from his career as a Christian preacher, a motivational speaker, and author.
Rick Warren Ministry | Theology
Warren began serving as a full-time minister when he was a 19-year-old student at California Baptist University. He co-wrote two novels, The Victory Scripture Memory Series and Twelve Dynamic Bible Study Methods for Laity, with Tom Hanks and Wayne Watts.
Rick Warren Books
♦ Open Doors: A Year of Devotions
♦ Expanded Purpose Driven Life Book
♦ The Purpose Driven Church
♦ The Purpose Driven Life 100 Illustrated Devotions for Children
♦ Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life Gift Edition
♦ The Purpose Driven Life for the Graduate
♦ Purpose Driven Life Italian Duo-Tone Edition
♦ The Purpose Driven Life Updated Journal
♦ Meditations on the Purpose Driven Life
♦ The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids
♦ The Purpose of Christmas
♦ The Daniel Plan Book: 40 Days to a Healthier Life
♦ The Daniel Plan Journal: 40 Days to a Healthier Life
♦ Rick Warren’s Bible Study Methods
♦ God’s Power to Change Your Life
♦ God’s Answers to Life’s Difficult Questions
