STORIES OF IMPACT

This month marked the training kick-off of Purpose Driven in Côte d'Ivoire, in Macedonia, and in Uganda. Plus, nearly 80 church leaders gathered in Hong Kong for the city’s first ever Purpose Driven Church conference!

After just six trips to Cote d’Ivoire, International Partnering Church (IPC) Palm Valley Church, has formed a steering team, trained 50 pastors in PD Essentials, and has mobilized the recent graduates to train 300 more leaders.

Purpose Driven Pastors in Sterling Heights are building bridges between the English-speaking and Arabic-speaking communities.

From April 25–27, Saddleback’s Global PEACE partnering church (GPC) in Moscow gathered over 240 pastors to take next steps toward implementing church health principles. As the first, locally-hosted Purpose Driven Church Conference, the powerful event trained leaders on how to grow healthy churches across Russia. Read more!

Palm Valley Church in Goodyear, AZ is a dedicated International Partnering Church (IPC) for Cote d'Ivoire. In the process of launching Purpose Driven strategies, transformation has taken place for both the IPC and local church leaders. Read what both side have to say!

Eastpoint Church Senior Pastor, Kurt Bubna and his IPC team have officially launched the Purpose Driven process in Botswana. Read how their recent meeting with national leaders has already helped unify the Church.

To better equip International Partnering Churches (IPCs), our Purpose Driven Team hosted a training event at Saddleback’s Rancho Capistrano campus from March 23-24. Read more about the desperate need for IPCs to help build Purpose Driven nations.

From February 21–23, nine International Partnering Churches from the U.S and Brazil, united with influential pastors from African countries during the All-Africa Pastors Gathering in Kigali, Rwanda. Find out how the PD movement is transforming nations.

To help bring PD strategies to African countries, Capital Christian Center (CCC) in Olympia, Washington took on the nation of Ghana in 2016. By February 2017, a team of four CCC pastors traveled to Ghana to officially begin training 137 local pastors in PD Essentials. Find out how God moved beyond the capital of Accra to expand PD into new territories.

From December 6-8, Saddleback Church hosted over 500 people during the Finishing the Task Conference, moving us one step closer toward fulfilling the Great Commission.

In 2003, Rwandan President, Paul Kagame read The Purpose Driven Life. Nine years had passed since the genocide took the lives of one million Rwandans and left one million orphans. But President Kagame had a vision to make Rwanda the first Purpose Driven nation.

After Saddleback committed to equipping Rwanda as a Purpose Driven nation, 21 other churches have stepped forward to install the PEACE Plan and PD in African countries.

In 2015, Senior Pastor Manuel Carrillo of Vastago Church in Mexicali, agreed to host church leaders for the first PD Essentials Training in the area.

On October 27, the Purpose Driven Team hosted a gathering for 13 International Partnering Churches at Saddleback’s Rancho Capistrano campus. In attendance were 30 PD practitioners from the United States and Canada, currently coaching other churches in PD strategies.