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THE
PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE AUTHOR RICK WARREN EMBARKS ON CELEBRATION TOUR
New
York Times Best-Seller Hits 18.6 Million Mark At Two Year
Anniversary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Vicki Cessna, (616)
698-3214, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
or Jessica Atteberry, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
![]() GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (ANS) -- New York Times best-selling
author of The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren, is set to embark on a
celebration tour surrounding the two-year anniversary of the bookâs
release. (Pictured:
Rick Warren).
âNo
one is more amazed that I am that this book has been so widely received and
continues to sell,â said Warren. âItâs both astonishing and
humbling.â
![]() The Purpose Driven Life has averaged selling nearly 800,000
copies a month since its release 24 months ago, âan unprecedented feat in the
publishing world.â (Pictured: Purpose Driven Life book cover).
During the tour, the
West Coast author will speak to a variety of East Coast audiences in 16 events
over 12 days. Warren will speak about âthe renewal of purpose happening in
America - the grassroots spiritual awakening that has been reported in dozens
of national newspapers.â
âI believe that we are possibly on the verge
of a New Reformation in Christianity and another Great Awakening in our
nation,â said Warren. âThe signs are everywhere, including the popularity of
this book.â
Warrenâs strategy is to use the tour to speak to different
groups of what he calls âcultural influencersâ including the media &
entertainment (New York City), military and government (Washington, D.C.),
business leaders and philanthropists (Atlanta), psychologists (Orlando),
religious leaders (Chattanooga, Tenn.), university students (Virginia) and
mothers at the National Convention for Mothers of Preschoolers (Nashville,
Tenn.) The tour kicks off the next 40 Days of Purpose program involving over
10 thousand more churches worldwide. Nearly 20,000 churches have already
completed the program.
Warren is often referred to as âAmericaâs most
influential ministersâ (TIME). The Purpose Driven Celebration Tour schedule is
as follows:
Sept 17 - Washington, D.C. The Pentagon, and multiple
events
Sept 18 - Orlando. National Convention of Counselors
Sept 19 -
West Point, NY. U.S. Military Academy
Sept 19-21 - New York City. Multiple
events including an appearance on NBCâs Today Show
Sept 22 â Atlanta.
Multiple events
Sept 23 â Chattanooga. Kick off City-wide 40 Days of
Purpose
Sept 24-25 âNashville. MOPS National Convention - with the release
of three childrenâs Purpose Driven books.
Warren is set to appear on
the Today Show on NBC on Sept. 20 to discuss the growing purpose driven
movement and will also be featured in an upcoming edition of NBCâs Dateline.
The Purpose Driven Life is the bestselling hardback non-fiction book
in history and since its publication has been a mainstay on numerous
bestseller lists including USA Today, Publisherâs Weekly, and The New York
Times, where it has remained for more than 87 consecutive weeks, hitting the
No.1 spot over 20 times. It has been named Book of the Year twice, in both
2003 and 2004, by the Christian Booksellerâs Association. New Man magazine
readers voted it, âBook of the Decade.â Warren is well-known as a spiritual
and social entrepreneur. Peter Drucker called him âthe inventor of perpetual
revivalâ and Forbes magazine has written, âIf Warrenâs church was a business
it would be compared with Dell, Google or Starbucks.â
Warren is the
founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., one of Americaâs
largest and best-known churches. He started Pastors.com, a global Internet
community that one of the first Christian websites on the Internet, and he
began the Purpose Driven movement in 1985 which has trained over 300,000
pastors worldwide and spread to 122 countries. His previous book, The
Purpose-Driven Church, won the Gold Medallion Award and was named one of the
100 Christian Books That Changed the 20th Century. He is the publisher of Rick
Warrenâs Ministry Toolbox, a weekly newsletter for ministers that has 136,000
subscribers.
Zondervan is the leading Christian communications company
in the world. Zondervan (a division of HarperCollins Publishers) produces
Bibles, books, new media products, gift products, and childrenâs products from
its Zonderkidz group. The worldâs largest Bible publisher, Zondervan publishes
the New International Version of the Bible with more than 170 million copies
distributed worldwide. For more information, visit www.zondervan.com.
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