The P E A C E Plan is a

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development program for churches and an evangelical Christian mission from

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in Lake Forest in

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in the United States.

History

The P.E.A.C.E. Plan has origins in the reading of an article on orphans of

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in Africa by Kay, the wife of

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Rick Warren Richard Duane Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder of Saddleback Church, an evangelical Baptists, Baptist megachurch in Lake Forest, California. Since 2022, he serves as execut ...

and a meeting in 2003 of the couple with a pastor of a township of

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. The program was founded in the same year by the

and Warren to combat five development challenges. For 18 months, pilot programs were tested with twinning of villages with small church groups. In 2005, the program was established in

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which was the first permanent partner. In 2008, after listening to comments from church leaders in various countries on the effectiveness of the program, Rick Warren made several corrections to the program, including the addition of the church reconciliation component.

Programs

The five challenges of the program are: # spiritual emptiness; # egocentric leadership; # extreme poverty; # pandemic diseases; # illiteracy and lack of education. The five objectives of the program are: # Plant or support churches for reconciliation: Support or plant churches by providing resources to combat racism and injustice. # Equip church leaders: Provide leadership training. # Assisting the poor: Support savings groups, business projects, and orphans. # Caring for the sick: Support access to clean water, sanitation, mental health care, people living with

. # Educate the next generation: Support literacy programs in English. In the fight against poverty in Africa, the program prioritizes the maintenance of contact of AIDS orphans with their communities by entrusting them to host families and avoids building orphanages.

Critics

In 2009, a study by the

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noted that the health component of the program, in

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in Rwanda, had certain weaknesses, including the lack of cooperation between the churches of different names, lack of staff to manage outcome evaluation data, and reluctance to collaborate with secular groups (governments, NGOs, universities). Robert E. Ford
INTEGRATING GIS INTO eHEALTH INITIATIVES IN AFRICA
National University of Rwanda, Rwanda, November 8, 2009, p. 29

References

External links

*{{official website, https://thepeaceplan.com/ Evangelical Christian missions

History

Programs

Critics

See also

References

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