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Thursday, June 22, 2006

 

Rick Warren, Saddleback Church to Feature Jewish Musical Innovator at Sunday Morning Services

MEDIA CONTACT:
Joshua Avedon, Synagogue 3000
Cell 310.291.5171
media@synagogue3000.org

LOS ANGELES – Following his historic visit to Sinai Temple's Friday Night Live Sabbath service, Pastor Rick Warren has invited Jewish musical innovator and Synagogue 3000 (S3K) Leadership Network member Craig Taubman to participate in services at Saddleback Church in Orange County on Sunday, June 25, at 9:00am and 11:15am.

This Sunday’s appearance marks Taubman's second formal visit to Saddleback, where he will share songs from the Jewish liturgy as part of the worship service, which Warren will lead. Synagogue 3000 has organized a delegation of Los Angeles Jewish leaders to the 11:15am service.

Warren and Taubman first met in June 2005 when Warren addressed the S3K Leadership Network. Taubman and Sinai Temple’s Rabbi David Wolpe then invited the Saddleback Church founder to visit Sinai Temple's nationally acclaimed Jewish seeker service, which Wolpe and Taubman created and co-lead. On June 16, approximately one thousand people came to Sinai's Friday Night Live services to hear Pastor Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, speak and answer questions.

The Shabbat evening began with a traditional Shabbat dinner hosted by Synagogue 3000 President Dr. Ron Wolfson for Warren, his guests, and leaders of the Los Angeles Jewish community. Immediately following the service, Warren and Wolpe engaged in dialogue with an audience of several hundred participants about the need to tackle the enormous challenges of poverty, illiteracy, illness, and hunger that plague the world. According to Wolpe, “Rick Warren's appearance at Friday Night Live was an opportunity for a major spiritual leader to connect to the Jewish community, and for two communities to learn about one another, and the ways in which they can cooperate to promote tikkun olam, the betterment of God's world.”

Craig n’ Co. (http://www.craignco.com) is Craig Taubman’s production company. Craig is a celebrated composer and singer-songwriter whose dynamic music and moving performance style have been an inspiration to the Jewish community for over 22 years in addition to his successful career in television and film composing.

Synagogue 3000 (http://www.synagogue3000.org) empowers congregations to create sacred communities that are compelling moral and spiritual centers of Jewish life. The S3K Leadership Network includes working groups on Spiritual Leadership and on Emergent Sacred Communities. The S3K Synagogue Studies Institute is dedicated to action-focused research for synagogue transformation.

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