{"id":131887,"date":"2010-01-03T11:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/saddleback-saved-as-flock-coughs-up-24-million-for-rick-warrens-church-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-03T11:36:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:36:33","slug":"saddleback-saved-as-flock-coughs-up-2-4-million-for-rick-warrens-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/131887","title":{"rendered":"Saddleback Saved, As Flock Coughs Up $2.4 Million For Rick Warren&#8217;s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b3c973100000000004088b2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"rick warren\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The members of Rick Warren&#8217;s Saddleback Church responded big-time to his urgent, end-of-year fundraising call.<\/p>\n<p>Last week he wrote a desperate letter saying, basically, the collection plates had run dry in the final week of the year, and that the church was $900,000 in the hole.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he got a lot more than he asked for. <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~3\/sqzoPt8wiTQ\/When%20Rev.%20Rick%20Warren%20says%20&quot;Urgent,&quot;%20folks%20reach%20for%20their%20checkbooks%20--%20to%20the%20tune%20of%20$2.4%20million%20and%20counting.%20%20Warren%20sent%20out%20an%20&quot;urgent&quot;%20plea%20Wednesday%20for%20the%20nation's%20sixth%20largest%20church%20to%20come%20up%20with%20more%20than%20$900,000%20in%2048%20hours%20to%20meet%20a%20budget%20shortfall%20and%20allow%20the%20Saddleback%20Church%20to%20carry%20on%20service%20programs%20from%20Southern%20California%20to%20Africa.\">The final haul was $2.4 million<\/a>, which Warren chalked up to &#8220;radical generosity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/saddleback-saved-as-flock-coughs-up-24-million-for-rick-warrens-church-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rick-warrent-saddleback-church-in-desperate-fundraising-appeal-after-collection-plates-run-dry-2009-12\">Rick Warren&#8217;s Saddleback Church In Desperate Fundraising Appeal After Collection Plates Run Dry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/sqzoPt8wiTQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The members of Rick Warren&#8217;s Saddleback Church responded big-time to his urgent, end-of-year fundraising call. Last week he wrote a desperate letter saying, basically, the collection plates had run dry in the final week of the year, and that the church was $900,000 in the hole. Well, he got a lot more than he asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}