Pastor Rick Warren has helped people live with hope and on purpose for over 40 years. He’s the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California with more than 500 ministries. Today it is one of America’s most influential congregations with more than 30,000 weekend attenders in 18 regional and international campuses.  Pastor Rick is the author of several books including The Purpose Driven Church and The Purpose Driven Life, read by over 100 million people in 137 languages. His radio teaching and daily devotional DAILY HOPE is heard all across America. As a global strategist, Pastor Rick founded the P.E.A.C.E. plan, a global missions effort (Plant churches of reconciliation, Equip servant leaders, Assist the poor, Care for the sick, Educate the next generation) used by churches in 196 countries. 

Founder and Senior Pastor,  Saddleback Church

Pastor Rick Warren (Video presentation)

Pastor Sam Chan graduated from the Master of Divinity Program at Tyndale Seminary in 1982 and received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1991. He has since served as the Senior Pastor of Richmond Hill Christian Community Church for 32 years. Under his leadership, RHCCC has striven to become a Purpose-driven, multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-generational missionary church for the “unchurched” and the committed. In addition to his pastoral ministry, Pastor Sam Chan is also the Head of Pastoral and Chinese Ministry Program and an Adjunct Professor at Tyndale University College and Seminary. Pastor Sam also serves on the Board of Great Commission Center and EQUIP Canada.

Senior Pastor, Richmond Hill Christian Community Church, Toronto, Canada

Rev. Dr. Sam Chan

Pastor Asaph Lai has been pastoring for the past 40 years and has been appointed the purpose-driven trainer for HKSAR. Starting from 1998, Pastor Lai led the transformation of his church from its original form towards a purpose-driven one and 12 years later, the church has grown its membership from 200 to 2000.

Prior to transformation, according to a NCD survey, Pastor Lai’s church has underperformed on 4 out of 8 church health indicators, including spirituality and sermons which scored as low as 27 and 23 respectively. After 7 years of transformation, the church passed all eight of its health indicators and even the score of its weakest indicator is a respectable score of 81. Pastor Lai's church has been since been awarded the Church Health award by Saddleback Church.

Pastor, Fanling Assembly of God Church, Hong Kong

Pastor Asaph Lai

Pastor Stephen Lee has been City Pastor of Saddleback Church Hong Kong since 2013.  The congregation has grown from zero to now serving 1000+ weekly since its inception. Saddleback Hong Kong was established with mission to be the training hub to equip and prepare for Purpose Driven churches in East Asia.

Pastor Stephen grew up in Hong Kong and has travelled around the world in the past 25 years for business and ministry purposes. Prior to Saddleback, Pastor Stephen was President of Peter F Drucker Academy.  He had also served as President of Bright China Group and the Chairman of Bright China Charity Foundation which were based in Beijing and Hong Kong. Moreover, Pastor Stephen has been involved in Prisoner related ministry, government advisory works and social entrepreneurship development for more than 30 years.

Pastor Stephen graduated with a Master degree in Engineering Business Management in Warwick University, UK. He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in Bethel Bible Seminary. He is also the Professor of Practice in HKU Centennial College and was awarded one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong in 2002.

City Pastor of Saddleback Church Hong Kong
Director, Purpose Driven - PEACE, East Asia Regional

Pastor Stephen Lee