Obama and McCain Appear Together at Same Mega-Church: Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls visit Saddleback Church August 16.

July 31st, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will make their first joint appearance as the presumptive Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, respectively, at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA on August 16th for a leadership and compassion forum.

In the two-hour event, each candidate will take the stage separately for about an hour to respond to Pastor Rick Warren’s questions about faith and moral issues such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, climate change and human rights.

Both presidential candidates have recently increased their outreach to the evangelical community and an appearance at the popular evangelical church could help the candidates’ appeal to this key voting bloc. Pastor Warren, who wrote best-seller The Purpose of Driven Life, will be the only one to pose questions to the candidates, as requested by both senators, although the event will be open to the media.

Warren says that he has known both candidates before they ran for national office and had called each man personally to invite him to the event. John McCain and Barack Obama, along with other political leaders, have endorsed Pastor Rick Warren’s P.E.A.C.E. Plan - a 50-year strategy to mobilize millions of local churches around the world to address the five global problems: spiritual emptiness, corrupt leadership, poverty, disease and literacy.

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