Pastor Rick Warren Asks Faithful For Nearly $1 Million -- And Fast!
Posted on Dec 31, 2009 @ 08:49AM
Rick Warren - often referred to as 'America's Pastor' -is asking his flock to cough up $900,000 in just two days to keep his church in the black.
Warren, the mega-pastor and bestselling author who gave the invocation at the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama, has sent this letter to his followers:
"Dear Saddleback Family," begins Warren. "THIS IS AN URGENT LETTER unlike any I've written in 30 years. Please read all of it and get back to me in the next 48 hours.
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"I have thrilling news to share with you below but first some seriously bad news: With 10% of our church family out of work due to the recession, our expenses in caring for our community in 2009 rose dramatically while our income stagnated. Still, with wise management, we've stayed close to our budget all year. Then... this last weekend the bottom dropped out.
"On the last weekend of 2009, our total offerings were less than half of what we normally receive - leaving us $900,000 in the red for the year, unless you help make up the difference today and tomorrow."
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In his letter, Warren praises the church's accomplishments for the year, and then adds:
It's obvious that your giving through your church family is providing more "bang for the buck" than anything else you could support. It is no wonder that our ministry was named the top religious newsmaker of 2009 as reported by Associated Press.
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YOU CAN HELP SAVE THE DAY 3 WAYS BEFORE JAN 1.
1.Click HERE right now to and give as large an end-of-the-year gift as you can to help avert this crisis. If we all do what God leads us to do, we'll all be a part of a miracle.
2.Mail in your gift today. Gifts must be postmarked in 2009 to be posted as 2009 gifts for tax purposes. Mail to: 1 Saddleback Parkway, Lake Forest, CA 92630.
3.Drop your gift in the box at the front door of the Ministry Center at 1 Saddleback Parkway so you know for certain we get it TODAY or Thursday...."
Warren ends the letter by saying: "I love you so much. It is a deep privilege to be your pastor."
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...and another one dipping deep into the tills of the faithful....he needs to learn cutback...also most medium to small churchs keep about 6 months of emergency funds for times like this....members
beware!
Posted Sat, 01/02/2010 - 3:32am
So I'm dying to know: did Warren meet his $900,000 goal today?
Posted Fri, 01/01/2010 - 9:53pm
I was a member of his church. I dont disagree with people . But, he's not rich-and im pretty sure he had to pick the lesser of two evils with this one. Everyone knows people don't spend at X-Mas.
Posted Fri, 01/01/2010 - 2:45pm
crook...go ahead and spend all the church money living your high life then turn around and ask everyone to help you out...oh yeah and throw in gods name along with the bribe too...what a joke!!!!!
Posted Fri, 01/01/2010 - 11:38am
****://rawstory.com/2009/12/gay-groups-mock-rick-warrens-chuch-debt-900k/
Maybe they are right, time for an audit of Warren's church.
Posted Thu, 12/31/2009 - 9:50pm
Goodie, goodie, now the gays have a new arena to attack. If you had any idea what ALL churches go thru every 4 mos. with the IRS...you'd jump off this supposition. Do you know Rick Warren's ideology?
Posted Thu, 12/31/2009 - 10:48pm
What I don't understand is that he says this last weekend the donations dropped by half, so what do they do live from week to week, like most of us live pay check to pay check. They should have had enough money to last them to the end of the year.
Posted Thu, 12/31/2009 - 9:41pm
Congregations tithe...and yes, they too live from paycheck to paycheck. Now if you had a pay cut from one month to the next...? How do you make ends meet? I guess you should have had enough money to last...hunh?
Posted Thu, 12/31/2009 - 10:42pm
He never did say the thrilling news did he. These ministers live so much better then then the average family, I feel that they should reduce their perks and salary before they start asking people to donate. Their way of living never changes.
Posted Thu, 12/31/2009 - 9:38pm
Yeah, you'll notice that no one in the mainstream media mentioned Obama's OTHER pastor's (remember Rev. Wright?) million+++ home that the congregation paid for.
Posted Fri, 01/01/2010 - 4:15pm