The P.E.A.C.E. Plan

Rick Warren is the author of A Purpose Driven Life and pastor of Saddleback Church in California. He has called the biggest problems that our world faces The Global Giants. And these are the 5 Global Giants that ravage the lives of billions of people – not just millions: Spiritual Emptiness, Egocentric or Self-Centered Leadership, Extreme Poverty, Pandemic Disease, and Lack of Education or Illiteracy.

We have an unprecedented opportunity to help bring lasting change to a world in dire need. Through Planting Churches, Equipping Leaders, Assisting the Poor, Caring for the Sick, and Educating the Next Generation -- we can help turn the tide of rampant evil in our time.
And I would add that Social Injustice is something that feeds every one of these global giants and we must be strategic about fighting it!

The P.E.A.C.E. Plan and fighting injustice envelops strategies that have been around since the birth of missions; however it is presented here in a way that we can effectively set and achieve attainable goals. We at Riverside Community Church have already been viewing missions through this lens for a couple of years now, it just hasn't been a missions strategy. I hope to see this strategy take root in the way we do missions at RCC. PEACE and Justice are two themes that I'll refer to quite often in this blog. Are there any churches or missions programs that are implementing PEACE or Justice into their strategies? Has anyone out there heard of these particular plan yet? Rick Warren and Saddleback are still making model churches with this plan before they make it public. His goal is to see Christians all over the world - which he refers to as an army of people that waiting to be mobilized - unite and take on the Global Giants together. This is the concept of Nehemiah - to fix the wall in front of us. If we each do our part then the world will change... Well that's what The One Life Project is all about!