Design Rick Warren's New Book Cover

Pastor Rick Warren - Senior Pastor of Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, California

Pastor Warren founded Saddleback Church (http://www.saddleback.com) in Lake Forest in 1980. Today, it is one of America’s most influential churches, with approximately 20,000 people attending the weekend services. Saddleback offers more than 200 community ministries and support groups for parents, families, children, couples, prisoners, addicts, people living with HIV/AIDS, depression, MS, Parkinson’s, autism, and many others.

He is the author of The Purpose Driven Life (http://www.purposedrivenlife.com), the bestselling hardback in American history, with over 30 million copies sold worldwide. He built the Purpose Driven Network (http://www.purposedrivenchurch.com), a global alliance of pastors from 162 countries and hundreds of denominations who have been trained to be purpose driven churches. He also founded Pastors.com (http://www.pastors.com) – an online interactive community that provides sermons, forums, and other practical resources for pastors – including archives of a weekly newsletter that is sent to more than 100,000 pastors and ministry leaders.

Pastor Warren and his wife Kay are passionate about global missions and what he calls “attacking the five global giants” of poverty, disease, spiritual emptiness, self-serving leadership, and illiteracy. His solution – The Peace Plan – is a massive effort to mobilize Christians around the world into an outreach effort to attack these five global giants of today. Check it out at http://www.thepeaceplan.com

This new book is called “The HOPE You Need” (http://www.thehopeyouneed.com) and is based on The Lord’s Prayer. This book is for everyone and I'm writing this book to bring real hope to a world that needs it desperately.

Thanks for your interest in participating in our Book Cover competition!

We will pay you $3000 (**UPDATE: Prize Increased to $5,000) if we use your artwork/photography for the cover of Pastor Rick Warren’s new book on the Lord’s Prayer "THE HOPE YOU NEED".

You may submit any kind of artwork or photography, as long as it is yours. The final size for the book will be 6" x 9".

If you lay out the complete cover, follow these guidelines:

Put his name at the top: Rick Warren
Author of New York Time Bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life

Title in the middle: The Hope You Need

Smaller script at bottom: From the Lord’s Prayer

The Deadline for submissions is this Saturday at 12 noon, Sept 19, 2009!

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