Reach out to a local community and share the love of Jesus this Christmas season! Join us in Laguna Hills as we deliver Saddleback Christmas PEACE Boxes, host a Christmas celebration, and much more. This event is family friendly, perfect for small groups, and just plain fun! Be there on Saturday, December 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., in the community of Aliso Meadows. Click here to learn more.
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Throughout the month of December, you can have professional Christmas photos taken by our PICS photographers. The photo booths have been set up in front of the Children's Ministry Center building on the Lake Forest campus and each booth will be hosted by a PICS photographer.
So dress up in your holiday best, grab a friend, your small group, your family, or pose for a sweet solo shot. Not the 'family Christmas photo' type? Not to worry. Grab your friends, throw on your ugliest Christmas sweaters, and get creative!
Photos are available to download for free by clicking here. Merry Christmas from Saddleback to you!
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 Everything you see on screen in the worship center, venues, regional campuses, and online is a combined effort of the Tech Arts Video Broadcast team of staff and volunteers. If you want to be a part of it, we are recruiting volunteers for cameras, graphics, video engineering, and technical directing. No experience is necessary – we'll train you! Anyone in high school or above is welcome! Email HopeS@Saddleback.com for more information.
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Christmas is all about compassion. This weekend, Saddleback is honoring World AIDS Day. In addition to FREE on-site HIV testing, you can experience a message by Kay Warren, interactive art exhibits, photo booths and more. We are educating, raising awareness, and joining in on the global fight to end AIDS. We are also taking this weekend to show compassion to orphans in Rwanda. There are more than 3,150 orphans living in orphanages in Rwanda. We want to get that number to zero. Children need a permanent family, not an orphange. Be part of this historic weekend - come to Saddleback and join the fight to end AIDS in our lifetime.
On this kick-off to the Christmas season, Kay Warren will share a powerful message on ways you, your small group, and your family can show compassion to people living with HIV&AIDS and to orphans. Our theme is GETTING TO ZERO.
GETTING TO ZERO is the goal to have:
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ZERO new HIV infections
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ZERO babies born with HIV
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ZERO AIDS-related deaths
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ZERO stigma and discrimination
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ZERO orphans in orphanages in Rwanda
Join us December 1 & 2 as we recognize World Aids Day 2012 with a uniquely interactive service and learn how you can make a difference around the world.
As part of World AIDS Day, Saddleback Lake Forest will offer free on-site HIV testing to the community at the Lake Forest campus.
More About Free HIV Testing
Saddleback Church is facilitating FREE HIV Testing for church attenders and the community at large on World AIDS Day Weekend, December 1 & 2, 2012. HIV Testing will be at the PEACE Community Resource Center, located at 1 Purpose Drive, just north of the intersection of Portola Parkway and Purpose Drive, Lake Forest, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. both days. Testing is completely confidential. For more information, please call Bill Mugford at (949) 609.8295.
More About Saddleback’s HIV & AIDS Initiative
Kay Warren is the founder and leader of Saddleback Church’s HIV&AIDS Initiative. “The HIV&AIDS Initiative at Saddleback was born out of the conviction that God cares about sick people – he loves people who are HIV positive,” explains Warren. “A study of Scripture reveals a God who is passionate about the sick. If we link arms together, united in vision and purpose, we can bring healing and hope to millions of people infected and affected by HIV&AIDS. In fact, we can do even more than that: we can end AIDS.”
LEARN MORE AT HIVAIDSINITIATIVE.COM
More About Saddleback’s Orphan Care Initiative
The Saddleback Church Orphan Care Initiative works locally and internationally to address the systemic issues that cause children to be orphaned. Today in Rwanda, there are 3,000 orphans living without permanent families. Saddleback Church has joined in an historic partnership with the country of Rwanda to see every orphan adopted by 2015.
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There are children right in your own neighborhood who are wondering if they'll receive anything for Christmas this year. Families in need come from all walks of life and this Christmas you can share the love of Christ with children and families through the Christmas PEACE Box.
The PEACE Box is an empty box you pick up from Saddleback Church and fill with presents. Each box inlcudes a list of suggested items to include. Once filled, you can either donate the box to a specific family in your life, or bring it back to the church by December 2. We'll distribute PEACE Boxes to families in need before Christmas.
Click here for instructions and more information.
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 Learn about myths of memory loss, the latest research and treatments, and lowering risk for developing Alzheimer's or other types of dementia. The Mind Heart and Soul Ministry is hosting a guest speaker, Katie Zeoli, MPH, MA, educator at the Alzheimer's Family Services Center on Saturday, December 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Complimentary seminar and continental breakfast. Pre-registration is required. Call Vic Mazmanian at 949-326-8747 or click here to register.
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 Last year we began a new tradition at the Lake Forest campus—our annual Christmas Tree Lighting! Bring your family, friends, and small group for a festive tree lighting ceremony including a live reading of The Christmas Story, Christmas singalong, hot cocoa, and cookies. Pastor Rick will flip the switch to light the beautiful tree.
Join us on Sunday, November 25 at 8:00 p.m. on the Worship Center patio. Click here for the event calendar.
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Do you want to know more about facts, historical evidence, and philosophical and scientific investigations behind Christianity? Come to Apologetics Weekend and your faith will be re-energized. We have speakers talking about the journey from atheism to theism as well as evidence of Christianity in science, nature, genetics and living cells, the origin of the universe, and more. Join us November 24-25.
LEE STROBEL on The Case for a Creator
Saturday 4:30 p.m.
Atheist-turned-Christian, Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of, The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books and has been described in The Washington Post as “one of the evangelical community’s most popular apologists.” He will be describing his journey from atheism to theism and the scientific evidence that convinced him that God exists.
CRAIG HAZEN on the intersection of science and faith
Saturday 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Hazen is founder and director of the M.A. program in Christian Apologetics at Biola University and director of the M.A. program in science and religion. He is also editor of the philosophy journal, Philosophia Christi. He will be talking about how science and faith fit together—and how science points powerfully toward a creator.
PAUL A. NELSON on Darwin or design?
Sunday 9:00 a.m.
Dr. Nelson is a fellow of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He has published articles in such journals as, Biology & Philosophy, Zygon, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Touchstone, and chapters in the anthologies, Mere Creation, Signs of Intelligence, and Intelligent Design and Its Critics. He will be talking about how we can be confident that the design in nature points toward God rather than mere evolutionary processes.
RAYMOND BOHLIN on how biology points toward God
Sunday 11:15 a.m.
Dr. Bohlin is a fellow of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and the vice president of Vision Outreach at Probe Ministries. His published work includes: Journal of Thermal Biology, Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, and the Journal of Mammalogy, and the book, The Natural Limits to Biological Change. He will be talking about how recent discoveries in genetics, as well as the complexity of living cells, point toward the existence of a creator.
JOHN BLOOM on how the universe points toward a creator
Sunday 6:00 p.m.
Dr. Bloom is a professor of physics? at Biola University and academic chair of the Master of Arts Program in Science and Religion. He is the author of such articles as On Human Origins: A Survey, Why Isn't the Evidence Clearer? and Finding Truth in Religion: Is There a Factual Basis? He will be talking about how the origin and fine-tuning of the universe point toward a creator.
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The Saddleback Food Pantry serves over 3,500 people monthly. This doubles during holiday months, so we need your help! Throughout November, bring holiday food items and drop them off at collection barrels placed around campus. Did you know that every family who receives food from the pantry is walked to their car by a volunteer who shares the love of Christ? More than 1,500 people have given their lives to Christ right in our food pantry parking lot!
The following food items are needed:
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$20 Gift Card for Turkey or Protein
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Boxed Stuffing
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Jars of Gravy
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Canned Cranberry Sauce
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Muffin or Corn Bread Mix
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Canned Sweet Potatoes or Yams
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Canned Soup or Broth
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Canned Vegetables
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Canned Fruit
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Canned Evaporated Milk
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Canned Pumpkin or other Pie Filling
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Boxed Pie Crust
Click here for more details about the food pantry.
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Join us for an inspiring message from Pastor Buddy Owens at the Restoration service, and then stay afterward for praise, worship, and communion. This is a time to be filled with hope and encouragement in the presence of God and the company of each other. The music will be familiar; it will fill your heart and lift your spirit. Sunday nights at 6:00 p.m. in The Refinery.
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