News Release

Rick Warren Unveils New Bible Library Driven by WORDsearch™ 7
at Purpose Driven Church Conference

Rick Warren, author of record-breaking New York Times bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life, andarchitect
of the worldwide Purpose Driven movement, partners with WORDsearch for product to equip pastors

Lake Forest, CA—June, 2005—Pastors from across the nation attending the Purpose Driven Church Conference on the campus of Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church were introduced to the new WORDsearch 7 version of the Rick Warren Bible Library, which combines remarkable ease of use with Pastor Rick’s selection of key resources for pastors. It is available for purchase through Purpose Driven’s PASTORS.com website, for new users or as an upgrade to previous versions.

“WORDsearch is a great Bible study software program,” said Rick Warren. “It is simple and fast. Nothing else comes close for comparing the best Bible translations quickly. I’ve been using WORDsearch for several years in my writing and sermon preparations. Now the new WORDsearch 7 is even faster, easier and more helpful—without losing the features that made WORDsearch my favorite. Our new Rick Warren Bible Library combines WORDsearch 7 with some of my favorite Bibles and references, including three of my own books.”

WORDsearch president, Randy Beck, said his organization’s partnership with Warren’s Purpose Driven Ministries makes perfect sense.

“The stated purpose of WORDsearch—to serve those who preach and teach to change lives—along with our product function and electronic library of books and Bibles have all been directly influenced by Rick Warren,” he said. “It’s a great privilege to use our technical and management talents to serve his ministry. Rick commented a few years ago that preaching was, by definition, aimed at changing lives. Otherwise, it would just be lecturing. We took our purpose of serving those who preach and teach to change lives from that insight.”

Purpose Driven is an independent ministry that grew out of the mission of Saddleback Church. Its task is to equip pastors all over the world both to plant and help churches to become balanced and healthy. Purpose Driven Church (PDC) conferences take place at Saddleback where Rick Warren has taught the PDC principles to more than 108,000 pastors on that campus alone. More than 400,000 pastors and church leaders, from more than 120 countries, have attended a Purpose Driven Church Seminar.

WORDsearch has one of the largest electronic libraries of Bible and reference resources, together with what is widely regarded in the industry as the easiest CD- and web-based Bible software program ever conceived. With a reliability that is unmatched, the software has stood the test of time while boasting several hundred thousand users.

Whether at home, at the office or on-the-go, now everyone can have access to one of the most comprehensive collections of Bible-study resources anywhere with the Rick Warren Bible Library.

The product includes 20 Bible translations, 45 reference works, 9 commentaries, 3 dictionaries, 3 handbooks, 3 photo and Bible atlases, plus Rick Warren’s Pastoral Helps consisting of more than 2,300 action verbs, more than 240 category words for outlining sermons, four indexes to The Purpose Driven Church book, an encyclopedia of more than 15,000 illustrations, and three complete works by Pastor Rick, including Answers to Life’s Difficult Questions, The Power to Change Your Life, and Personal Bible Study Methods.

The full version of the new Rick Warren Bible Library is available on CD for $199. The upgrade version is available for $99.95.

For more information, or to order, the Rick Warren Bible Library, visit www.PASTORS.com. For more information about Rick Warren and ministries associated with him, visit www.rickwarren.com. For more information about WORDsearch, visit www.wordsearchbible.com.

Download a free 30-day trial of the flagship WORDsearch 7 program and any of the electronic books and Bibles from WORDsearch’s vast library at www.wordsearchbible.com/WS7Trial.

Biography of Dr. Rick Warren

Dr. Rick Warren is the author of the New York Times No. 1 bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold a record-breaking twenty-one million copies, making it the bestselling hardback non-fiction book in U.S. publishing history. It has been the No. 1 bestseller on every major bestseller list and was named 2003 Book of the Year by both CBA and ECPA. 40 Days of Purpose and the Purpose Driven movement have become a world-wide phenomena featured in more than 300 newspapers, magazines, radio shows, and TV shows including USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fox News, ABC, NBC, FORBES, and TIME magazine. Millions of people have participated in 40 Days of Purpose reading groups based on the book. It is a six-week spiritual journey that focuses on the question: What on earth am I here for? Rick Warren is also the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, one of America’s largest and best-known churches. He and his wife, Kay, began the church with one family in 1980. Today the church averages over 20,000 in attendance each weekend on its 120 acre campus and lists more than 80,000 names on the church roll. The church has also started 34 daughter churches, inspired thousands of other new churches to be started, and sent nearly 5,000 of its members on mission projects around the world.

TIME, Christianity Today, and several other publications have identified Rick Warren as one of the most influential pastors in America. Peter Drucker, dean of American Management, called Rick Warren “the inventor of perpetual revival” and Saddleback’s organizational model “the most significant sociological phenomena of the second half of this century.” Rick pioneered the Purpose Driven Church paradigm of growth that has been adopted by tens of thousands of churches. More than 400,000 pastors from over 120 countries have been trained in the Purpose Driven Church strategy. Warren’s previous book, The Purpose-Driven Church, has sold over one million copies in 21 languages. It won the prestigious Gold Medallion award in 1996 and was selected as one of the “100 Christian Books that Changed the 20th Century.”

Rick also founded Pastors.com, a global Internet community that serves and mentors those in ministry. Currently, 125,000 pastors subscribe to Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox, a weekly email newsletter, and the Pastors.com website attracts between 60,000 to 100,000 pastors daily with news, chat forums, sermons, and other resources for those in ministry. His other books include The Power to Change Your Life, Answers to Life’s Difficult Questions, Planned for God’s Pleasure, and Personal Bible Study Methods.

Born in San Jose, California, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from California Baptist College, a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. For more information about Rick Warren and ministries associated with him, visit www.rickwarren.com

for more information, contact

Randy Beck, WORDsearch Corp.
3006 Longhorn Blvd. #110, Austin, TX 78758 1-800-888-9898
rbeck@wordsearchbible.com

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