Saddleback Church

The Orphan Care Initiative is the general fund which provides tools, training and resources to local churches so that every orphan and vulnerable child can have hope, healing and a future.. The primary emphasis is on helping churches launch Biblically sound orphan care ministries all around the globe. When you give to this fund you are:

• Helping local churches everywhere learn how to best solve the orphan care crisis in their own community through advocacy and reunification or adoption.
• Rescuing orphans and vulnerable children from the street, orphanages and other adverse circumstances by empowering the local church to care.
• Empowering churches with tools, training and models which emphasize both indigenous and intercountry adoption utilizing principle which help not hurt.
• Building Orphan Care ministries in the Saddleback Churches in the 12 cities around the world.

This fund prepares and enables people at Saddleback to bring comfort and hope to people in crisis following local and global disasters and then quickly provide training and opportunities to assist them back to a productive and more normal existence. We seek to comfort the hurting, give hope to the hopeless and to effectively move the survivors from relief to development with care and compassion.

End Land Grabbing From Widows and Children

Each year thousands of widows and their children are left homeless and destitute in Rwanda and other countries in Africa. When the man of the house dies, just when his wife and children are grieving, his relatives force them from their home, sometimes with violence, and claim the house, the land, crops, livestock, everything of value.

Attorneys from the Justice & Trafficking Initiative have trained over 200 pastors in Rwanda on how to prevent such injustice. This fund supports the training of pastors throughout Rwanda and beyond, to end this evil practice.

This fund purchases and distributes food through our Food Pantry to help the poor, those hardest hit by the current recession.

The Saddleback Church Food Pantry has been able to help thousands of families since it opened just over a year ago. The number of families to which Saddleback is providing food is growing as other food banks in the area have had to turn away families for lack of food supply. Join us in serving our community as many are facing very difficult financial circumstances.

This fund supports the training of pastors and Christian leaders worldwide in the fundamentals of leading a healthy church. They are taught about the Purpose Driven paradigm and the PEACE Plan as envisioned by Pastor Rick and his team. Currently there are over 10,000 pastors in this program and many, many more are waiting to be involved.

Military personnel serving in every corner of the globe are finding hope and purpose through The Purpose Driven Life. Hundreds of thousands of men and women in uniform have discovered their Creator’s purpose for their lives. With your help, we’d like to see every service person receive a copy of the book. For every $20 you donate 20 service people will have the opportunity to discover God’s purpose for them.