LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- Rick Warren and Jerry Falwell will team up to train more than 10,000 church leaders in October as part of the first Purpose-Driven Church conference offered east of the Mississippi River.
Baptist Press reported the event is billed as a "Super Conference" and will combine 11 Purpose-Driven seminars on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.
""This is truly going to be a Super Conference, like none we have ever done before," said Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest and author of "The Purpose-Driven Life" and "The Purpose-Driven Church."
On the first day, Warren's Purpose-Driven Life Simulcast will kick off the latest 40 Days of Purpose campaign. More than 3,000 churches, including Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, and the entire Liberty University student body will participate in the campaign.
Warren and Falwell will both work the conference, which will cost $150 to attend. The two said they hope the conference will spark national revival.
"I'm praying that God will use this conference to set fires of revival burning across America," Falwell said. "We are expecting thousands of pastors and local church workers to register for this conference."
Falwell ranks the Purpose-Driven Super Conference as one of the five most important moments in the history of his church, according to BP. Other major moments include launching what became Liberty University, the "Old-Time Gospel Hour" and the Moral Majority.
During the six-week pilot 40 Days of Purpose campaign at Saddleback, more than 500 new believers were baptized, nearly 1,200 people joined the church, 2,200 people signed up for a ministry at the church and 2,400 people hosted small-group Bible studies in their homes, according to the news report. Similar results were reported in the 3,000 churches that helped pilot the campaign.





