Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church, is to step down as teaching pastor at Saddleback Church after more than four decades in the job.
He has named Andy and Stacie Wood of Echo Church in San Jose, California as his successors. Andy Wood, 40, is currently Echo’s lead pastor, while Stacie Wood is a teaching pastor. They will take on the same roles at Saddleback from this September.
