“He treated that moment like he was a rock star,” Rutenbar recalled.
Rutenbar remembered Matthew Warren’s joy at being called onto the ballfield at Angel Stadium of Anaheim during the church’s 25th anniversary celebration. “Matthew was as bright as anyone could be,” he said. Rutenbar, who with his wife, Connie, and their three children vacationed often with the Warrens, recalled trips to June Lake in the eastern Sierras and Matthew Warren’s sense of humor and intellect. Reports on the cause of death are expected from the coroner’s office Monday. He said his son had been fighting mental illness.
Warren on Saturday spoke openly of his son’s death in an email to church members and local clergy. “It requires a response of compassion for the young man and his family and an embrace of both.” “Suicide is an act of compulsion to turn off pain,” Spitz said. Rabbi Elie Spitz of congregation B’nai Israel in Tustin said such a tragedy prompts silence and sadness. In Irvine, Life Church pastor Phil Munsey dedicated his service to Warren. At RockHarbor in Costa Mesa, congregants were asked to pray for Saddleback Church and the Warren family. Holladay went on to answer the rhetorical question of the sermon with five points: Weep don’t get bitter – forgive encourage yourself in lord hope in the future and attack evil.Īcross the county, pastors held the Warren family in their prayers. “Their (Rick and Kay’s) heart is here with you, and for you to find hope in God and that you can find safety in him,” he added. Now it’s time to return that love to the Warren family.” Rick has always had the right encouragement from his heart. “Everyone feels the Warren family is part of their family,” Steve Rutenbar, Saddleback’s pastor of relief and longtime Warren family friend, said Sunday. Services at the church’s seven Orange County campuses were filled to capacity Saturday night and Sunday morning, church officials said. Friday in an apparent suicide, Supervising Deputy Coroner Daniel Aikin said. Matthew Warren of Mission Viejo died about 10 a.m. You are all encouraging our #brokenhearts.” Early Sunday, Rick Warren tweeted: “Kay and I are overwhelmed by your love, prayers, and kind words. What he did know was he could count on support from his congregation.
When Warren wrote the series, he had no idea he and his family would be the focus of the message or that his youngest son, Matthew, 27, would have taken his life two days earlier. Its title: “Surviving Tough Times” part one: “What Do You Do on the Worst Day of Your Life?”
PASTOR RICK WARREN SON DEATH SERIES
LAKE FOREST – Pastor Rick Warren had prepared a message series for Saddleback Church’s 30,000-plus members that he planned to deliver Sunday.
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