Rick Warren challenges churches and youth ministries to global engagement with the launch of the PEACE Coalition.
Despite being offered few details of the plan, pastors in attendance at the conference in which Warren launched the coalition were enthusiastic.
The PEACE coalition is a plan of epic ambition, to turn at least half of the world's tens of millions of Christian churches into a giant "network of networks" dedicated to relieving poverty and misery in the developing world.
The flagship project has been in Rwanda, whose President, Paul Kagame, declared his intention to make his country the world's first "Purpose-Driven Nation."
The PEACE program is an attempt to radically re-engineer Evangelicalism's huge missionary culture, connecting individual churches in the United States to congregations in target countries rather than funneling aid and evangelism through agencies that send trained professionals into the field. One of the coalition's theoretical benefits would be efficiency.
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Do you think Rick Warren's suggestions for missions is better than conventional mission practices? Why or why not? Rick Warren's PEACE plan focuses on alleviating poverty around the world partly by addressing political issues. What's your opinion about churches' involvement in politics?
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