Program areas at Pastor Ricks Daily Hope
Purpose Driven Connection (PDC) shares the certain hope of Jesus Christ through a variety of media and formats. On radio and television, PDC produces and distributes Pastor Ricks Daily Hope, a series of biblical messages developed from the sermons, teaching, and ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. The Daily Hope audio program reaches people worldwide via the ministrys website (pastorrick.com), paid digital platforms like OnePlace and Pray.com, multiple podcast platforms, more than 150 US-based radio stations, and more than 20 international stations. In 2023, Daily Hope had more than 2.5 million podcast downloads and over 7 million listeners on PastorRick.com. Esperanza Diaria, the Daily Hope broadcast in Spanish, can be heard on more than 100 radio stations throughout North and South America. Daily Hope's televised program is distributed weekly via a major network. Each weekday, PDC delivers a written devotional from Pastor Rick to more than 900,000 people, and it engages millions of others each month through social media. PDC also develops, markets, and distributes sermons and other Christian resources to reach people for Jesus Christ, help individuals grow in their Christian faith, and train and equip pastors. PDC works to make these resources available widely, including by providing teaching content for solar radios that are distributed to people living in remote areas worldwide including several refugee camps in South Sudan and by actively translating these biblical teachings into new languages. In 2023, PDCs translation efforts made the Daily Hope written devotionals available in 22 languages and the audio program is now available in 22 languages. The Daily Hope television broadcast has also been translated into Ukrainian and Russian and is currently airing across Russia, Ukraine, and neighboring countries. The Purpose Driven Essentials training course for pastors has been translated into 39 languages and is being used to equip pastors to grow healthy and vibrant churches all around the world. PDC provides these translated resources for free via the website RickWarren.org.In 2023 PDC began digitally advertising the translated broadcasts, devotionals and other material around the world to reach people speaking those languages.Because of its efforts, Daily Hope received the 2016 Billy Graham Award for Excellence in Christian Communications from the National Religious Broadcasters in recognition of Daily Hope as a Christian organization that effectively and creatively uses multiple electronic media technologies in fulfillment of its mission, while maintaining fidelity to the message of love, redemption, and hope found in the Holy Scriptures. Collectively using all these methods of spreading the good news and hope of Jesus Christ, Purpose Driven Connection reached people in more than 190 countries in 2023.