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Kay Warren

Executive Director, HIV/AIDS Initiative, Saddleback Church

Kay Warren is an evangelical leader, author, AIDS activist, and co-founder of Saddleback Church in Southern California. Along with her husband, Rick, Warren founded Saddleback in 1980 with just a single family to fill the pews. Today it has 120-acre campus, 22,000 weekly attendees, and has provided spiritual guidance and source material to over 400,000 ministers worldwide.

In 2002, Warren became "seriously disturbed" by the scope of the AIDS epidemic; she has since set up an AIDS ministry at Saddleback and spoken out about the disease around the world. Warren is the co-founder and co-director (with her husband) of The Global PEACE Fund, which fights poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

Warren has spoken to the United Nations Global Coalition on Women and AIDS. In 2006, Warren was among eight women honored for their humanitarian efforts at the CNN Inspire Summit. Warren is the author of Foundations Participant's Guide and Dangerous Surrender: What Happens When You Say Yes to God.

How is technology changing the ministry?

Technology has changed everything.

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What is the state of religion in America?

Warren is both “hopeful and pessimistic.”

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What is your question?

Warren would like to have a chat with Mother Theresa.

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Is there a clash of civilizations?

It’s the same story: estrangement from God.

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What is your counsel?

It’s simple: love your neighbor as yourself.

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How will this age be remembered?

The willingness to be destroyed by the American dream.

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What is your outlook?

Warren, on the difference between pessimism and realism.

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What is religion’s proper role in government?

Your beliefs will affect your decisions anyway, Warren says.

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Kay Warren on the Churches’ Role in Helping the Poor

Rick Warren’s wife says churches not governments should help poor people.

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Kay Warren on Robin Hood Economics

Rick Warren’s wife says the rich have a responsibility to the poor.

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Why do you pay a reverse tithe?

It’s a more fulfilling way to live.

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How do you reconcile tolerance and evangelizing?

If you had the cure for cancer, you’d tell people.

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How can we encourage faith in today’s youth?

Young people today need heroes, Warren says.

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Should we leave Africa alone?

People who say that have never been there.

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Kay Warren on How to Save Africa

Kay Warren on the effectiveness of microloans.

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Why is AIDS on the rise in America?

We’re tired of being careful, Warren says.

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Is the President's AIDS plan working?

Warren likes the President’s bold and comprehensive approach.

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Is AIDS God’s punishment for homosexuality?

The Bible never asks how you got sick.

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What inspires you?

Kay Warren, on how she found the AIDS campaign.

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Kay Warren Explains the Divorce Rate in American

Kay Warren says too many couples demand perfection.

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Recognizing that you married a sinner.

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How do you make your marriage work?

Don’t give up just yet.

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How do you keep a sense of intimacy in your parish?

From Christmas open houses to mega-church.

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What happens when you say ‘yes’ to God?

Getting out of your own way.

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What do evangelicals stand for?

Evangelicals span a spectrum of faith, Warren says.

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What is a purpose-driven life?

Each of us was made for the same purpose.

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What are the tenets of the Christian faith?

The Bible is Warren’s authority.

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What do you do?

Speaking up for those who have no voice.

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A California girl who works far from home.

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