By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post
Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the nation, has launched a new global vision to multiply impact on the local and international levels.
Within the next three years, megachurch in the Lake Forest, Calif., aims to launch nine new off-site campuses in addition to its San Clemente campus, which meets every weekend at the local high school, and step up its global P.E.A.C.E. plan. By 2010, Saddleback hopes to see 10,000 more lives changed and baptized.
“One of the most important words in the Christian life [is] ‘go,'” said Rick Warren, founding and senior pastor of Saddleback, during his “Multiplying Our Impact” sermon series last month. “The Christian life is a journey and over and over again God says you are to go. We are not a passive faith; you are a ‘going’ faith.”
Thousands of Saddleback congregants and staff have been on the move to open a campus in Corona and Irvine late this year and early 2008. Two pastors have already been picked out of the Saddleback staff to lead the sites, which will have their own live worship music and video feed from the main Lake Forest campus. The campuses will host smaller congregations of 400 to 600 people.Click here to read the rest of this news story.
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