A Historic Day

Mary was a head usher... that left me to do the partying. Mary had to be there at 9am. I followed @ 1030am carpooling then tailgating with Mike Raabe. Burgers with the whole CR crowd was a blast.

The program was fantastic with Pastor Rick, first looking back over the last 25 years, then laying out the next 25 with The P>E>A>C>E Plan.

There were representatives from Billy Graham & President Bush to read letters of congradulation. The president of Ruwanda addressed the congregation, announcing the first National Peace Plan Partnership in which Saddleback will partner with the Government and Business interests bring Global Peace to his country.

Chuck Colson addressed the congregation anouncing a partnership with Prison Fellowship Ministries, Purpose Driven Life & Celebrate Recovery which will allow Saddleback Church volunteers access to over 2000 prisons in the USA and in over 160 countries around the world. Purpose Driven Churches across the world will now be able to minister to prisoners and their families both during & after their time is served.

The last & most moving guest speaker was one of the over 450,000 pastors trained at Saddleback. He offered a heartfelt thank you with his story of a church redeemed and reformed by the support of the Saddleback family.

We dined with Scott & Kay's small group before calling it a day.