|
Saddleback Church is an evangelical Christian megachurch located in Lake Forest, California, situated in southern Orange County, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The church was founded in 1980 by Pastor Rick Warren. Weekly church attendance averages over 20,000 people, currently making it the seventh-largest church in the United States (this ranking includes multi-site churches). Saddleback Church currently has 9 regional campuses (not including the Lake Forest campus): San Clemente, Irvine South, Irvine North, Corona, Huntington Beach, San Juan Capistrano, Anaheim (The Grove), Laguna Woods, Los Angeles and 4 international campuses: South Manila, Philippines, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Berlin, Germany. Several more campuses are planned in the next few years. In addition, Saddleback is "virtually" attended online by those around the country and the world who watch and listen to worship services on demand. Notable staff include Rick Warren, Kay Warren and Rick Muchow. Saddleback is known for their signature ministries such as Celebrate Recovery, AIDS/HIV Ministry, Daniel Plan Ministry and PEACE Ministry. ==History== Saddleback's first public service was held on Palm Sunday, March 30, 1980 with 40 people in attendance at the Laguna Hills High School Theater. Just one week later, on Easter Sunday, 240 were in attendance. Warren's church growth methods led to rapid growth and the church has used nearly eighty different facilities in its 30-year history, including the Laguna Hills HS Theater and Trabuco Hills High School Gymnasium. Saddleback did not build its first permanent building until it had 10,000 weekly attenders. When the current Lake Forest campus was purchased in the early 1990s, a 2,300-seat plastic tent was used for worship services for several years, with four services each weekend. In 1995, the current Worship Center was completed with a seating capacity of 3,500. The Children's Ministry Center (housing the "Saddleback Kids" ministry) and staff office building were completed over the next few years. In 2008, former Pastor of Life Development, Doug Fields, saw his dream of over 15 years come to fruition with the completion of the ''Refinery'', Saddleback's first permanent student ministry facility. Costing $20 million, the state-of-the-art facility is considered the premier student ministry facility in the world. The ''Refinery'' houses Saddleback's middle school ministry (''Wildside''), high school ministry (''HSM''), college ministry (''Crave''), and young adults ministry, (''Fuel''). Since moving into the ''Refinery,'' all the student ministries have seen tremendous growth, with more than 2,500 young people attending services in the facility each week. The ''Refinery'' was built using the resources and voluntary giving raised through the "Extending the Vision" campaign.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= The Refinery )〕〔.〕 ''The Purpose Driven Church'' (PDC) curriculum〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher =Purpose Driven )〕 and ''Celebrate Recovery'' program were founded at Saddleback Church. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saddleback Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|