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Rick Warren Asks for Urgent Donations
AP ^ | California, Dec. 31, 2009 | Staff

Posted on 12/30/2009 11:22:46 PM PST by FTJM

Evangelical pastor Rick Warren is begging parishioners at his Southern California megachurch to cough up $900,000 before Jan. 1 to keep the parish out of the red.

In an urgent letter posted on the Saddleback Church Web site on Wednesday, Warren says expenses are up because parishioners are out of work and "the bottom dropped out" when year-end donations dropped dramatically.

He asks parishioners to donate before the new year to keep the Orange County church out of debt, The Orange County Register reports.

A spokeswoman for Warren said the church does not release financial details, so it's difficult to put the $900,000 shortfall in context.

Warren delivered the invocation at the inauguration of President Barack Obama and is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling "The Purpose Driven Life."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apostasy; megachurches; platepassin; purposedriven; rickwarren; saddleback; seekersensitive
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1 posted on 12/30/2009 11:22:47 PM PST by FTJM
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To: FTJM

Maybe ACORN will give him some money!


2 posted on 12/30/2009 11:27:19 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: FTJM
Warren delivered the invocation at the inauguration of President Barack Obama and is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling "The Purpose Driven Life."

Then he ought to have $900K to save his church.

3 posted on 12/30/2009 11:28:52 PM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: FTJM

I could use a little relief too , if anyone’s feeling generous

:^)


4 posted on 12/30/2009 11:30:49 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: HospiceNurse
"Then he ought to have $900K to save his church."

With all the book sales and money that has flowed-in, one would think this would be simple as pie.

This whole story sounds f-i-s-h-y to me. But hey......

5 posted on 12/30/2009 11:33:48 PM PST by NoRedTape
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To: FTJM

I read a better pitch in an email from some guy in Nigeria.


6 posted on 12/30/2009 11:33:56 PM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: FTJM

He sucked up to The Usurper, maybe he’ll get a bailout from Tiny Tim.


7 posted on 12/30/2009 11:38:18 PM PST by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Rick, why don’t you write another book that says all the same things as the previous books?


8 posted on 12/30/2009 11:39:19 PM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: FTJM

I must admit that Rick Warren held the only forum in 2008 where Obama was asked even slightly difficult questions.

Saddleback Presidential Candidates Forum, August 17, 2008
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/17/se.01.html


9 posted on 12/30/2009 11:50:58 PM PST by iowamark
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To: ICE-FLYER

A “book whose purpose is to raise money for the unemployed in our church” might not sell too well. He might be envious of Sarah Palin.


10 posted on 12/31/2009 12:01:06 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: FTJM

here is the request from Rick Warren!!!!

http://www.saddleback.com/blogs/newsandviews/index.html


11 posted on 12/31/2009 12:04:40 AM PST by tallyhoe
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To: FTJM

Sorry...that’s a little beyond my paygrade.


12 posted on 12/31/2009 12:09:35 AM PST by TNdandelion (While Obama plays with his balls, Afghanistan falls.)
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To: iowamark

And Bummer knew just how to speak the born again code words. You’d think that if he was even as sincere as Jimmy Carter about it that he’d let it show all over the place. (Remember how “born again” became a popular buzzphrase during the Jimmy years?) But he dares not. He can’t even find time to do something that George W. Bush did every Sunday.


13 posted on 12/31/2009 12:12:15 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I gave up on him when he gave Obama a platform and was feted during the Inauguration.


14 posted on 12/31/2009 12:45:40 AM PST by MHT
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To: FTJM

“A spokeswoman for Warren said the church does not release financial details...”

Tell that to the loan officer! Oh wait — you just did. Sorry, I’m fresh out of soon-parted.


15 posted on 12/31/2009 2:24:43 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (STOP the Tyrananny State.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

$900,000? Who is this guy Oral Roberts? Did he give all of the churches money to a “global warming fund”? I thought he gave 90% of his book proceeds to the church


16 posted on 12/31/2009 2:38:17 AM PST by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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Maybe Rick can get some Obama bailout money to fix his clock:

http://www.saddleback.com/internetcampus/live/

They don’t even have it right for Orthodox Christmas!!


17 posted on 12/31/2009 2:38:52 AM PST by Drago
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To: FTJM
O noez! If Rick doesn't get the cash, he might be forced to preach from house to house and in prisons, with just enough clothing and food to survive!

You know, like Jesus and His Apostles. Ahem.

18 posted on 12/31/2009 2:40:21 AM PST by Anti-Utopian ("Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage." -King Lear [V,iii,6-8])
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To: FTJM
A spokeswoman for Warren said the church does not release financial details, so it's difficult to put the $900,000 shortfall in context.

And what "context" would that be? Allowing yourself to become a megachurch with mega-expenses, deal with it Rick.

19 posted on 12/31/2009 2:45:26 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: FTJM

20 posted on 12/31/2009 2:54:07 AM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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