Our Ministries

From the nursery to missions overseas, there's a place for every person and every season. Hover a ministry to see what's happening, or click through to its page.

Family

Nursery through 12th grade — safe, joyful, gospel-centered ministry for children on Sunday mornings and students gathering weekly for worship and community.

Upcoming

Vacation Bible SchoolJul 14–18 · 9am

Youth Wednesday Night LiveWed · 6:30pm

New

Online check-in is now live

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Vacation Bible School

Men

Men gathering to grow in faith, sharpen one another, and serve together.

Upcoming

Men's breakfastSat · Jul 12 · 8am

New

New study: Proverbs on work

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Saturday Men's Breakfast

Women

Bible studies, mentorship, and fellowship for women in every season of life.

Upcoming

Summer Bible studyTue · Jul 8 · 10am

New

Fall retreat registration is open

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Women's Fall Retreat

Young Adults

Community for 20s and 30s — rooted in Scripture, built on friendship, figuring out life and faith together.

Upcoming

Young Adults gatheringThu · 7pm

New

Fall community groups forming now

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Young Adults Gathering

Outreach

Serving our city and supporting global partners in taking the Gospel to the nations — from local shelters to missions overseas.

Upcoming

Outreach info nightSun · 5pm

New

Meet our newest global partner

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Local & Global Outreach
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About Coral Ridge

What we believe.

Our vision, our convictions, and the values that shape everything at Coral Ridge.

Presbyterian Church in AmericaFort Lauderdale, Florida
Vision

A Gospel-centered church that equips culture-shaping Christians from generation to generation.

Mission

To proclaim the Gospel to each generation and empower them to live in light of the foundational truth that Jesus is Lord of all.

As a member congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), Coral Ridge is a confessional church, fully committed to living out in today’s context the rich theology, piety, and practice of the historic Christian faith recovered at the Protestant Reformation — best summarized in the Westminster Confession of Faith.

Our history
What we believe

Our beliefs.

Twelve convictions at the heart of everything we do.

The Bible

We believe that the Bible is the written word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit and without error in the original manuscripts. The Bible is the revelation of God’s truth and is infallible and authoritative in all matters of faith and practice.

The Trinity

We believe in the Holy Trinity. There is one God, infinite and unchanging, who exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Man and sin

We believe that all people are sinners by nature, are guilty in God’s sight, and are totally unable to save themselves from God’s displeasure. His free grace alone provides a way of salvation.

Election

We believe that this salvation is the work of God alone. He sovereignly chooses whom He will save. We believe that His choice is based solely on His grace, not on any merit found in his people, their foreseen faith, or their religious activity.

Jesus Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, who through His perfect obedience and sacrificial death as the representative and substitute of his people, atoned for the sins of all who would trust in Him alone for salvation.

Justification

We believe that the only way to acceptance with God is by God’s grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone.

God’s covenant promises

We believe that God is gracious and faithful to His people not simply as individuals but as families in successive generations according to His covenant promises.

The Church

We believe that the church is the covenant community of God and the sphere within which the grace of God is available to all, through the preaching and teaching of the Bible, and the administration of the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Outside the church there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.

The Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells God’s people and enables them to trust Christ and follow Him. Faith is the gracious gift of God.

Perseverance of the saints

We believe that having come to saving faith in Christ, believers can never be lost, but persevere to the end, being kept by the power of God through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. This perseverance is both the responsibility of every believer, and the infallible promise of God to all his people.

The return of Christ

We believe that Jesus will return at the last day, bodily and visibly, to judge all mankind and to receive His people to Himself.

Living the Christian life

We believe that all aspects of our lives are to be lived to the glory of God under the Lordship of Jesus Christ as we wait for the day of his glorious appearing.

How we live it out

Our values.

Through the power of the Spirit, we endeavor to be this kind of people.

The Gospel affects everything

Gospel centrality

The Gospel is the lifeblood of the Christian individually and the church collectively — more than the entrance into a restored relationship with God, it is the lens through which all of life is understood, informing who we are and what we do.

Romans 1:15–16
God is making all things new

A hopeful outlook

We live with expectant hope, knowing that God in Christ is making all things new — people, relationships, communities, and culture — and we labor optimistically as part of His sovereign plan to restore the created order to its original glory.

Revelation 21:5 · 1 Peter 1:3
Our story in God’s story

Generational faithfulness

We minister in the present and look toward the future aware of God’s faithful guiding of Coral Ridge for more than five decades — celebrating being part of a work of God much bigger than ourselves, in this community and beyond.

Deuteronomy 6:10–12 · Psalm 145:4
We love because Christ loved us

Compassionate hospitality

We extend the indiscriminate love, welcome, and cherishing embrace of Jesus, the Great Physician, to all who enter — ministering to the broken and hurting with a mutual need of and reliance upon the life-giving attention of Jesus.

1 Peter 4:8–10
Seeking the common good

South Florida

We sincerely love the Greater Fort Lauderdale community in which we’ve been placed, seeking the peace and prosperity of the city so that civic flourishing comes as a direct result of the church’s efforts to bless its neighbors.

Jeremiah 29:7
Investing in the future

Next generation

We shepherd the church with great emphasis on discipling those growing up in the faith in our midst — from children to young adults — teaching the next generation the love of Christ and empowering them to carry it forward.

Deuteronomy 11:20–22
Encountering God’s glory together

Congregational worship

We treasure the weekly assembling of the church for worship — placing high value on in-person, corporate worship as a unique means of grace where the body of Christ together encounters the glory of God.

Hebrews 10:25 · Ephesians 1:22–23, 4:16
Everyone bears His image

Image of God in all people

We celebrate that we are one body with many parts — gifts, age, race, gender, culture, social status — and through these different expressions of God’s image we all labor together to do the work of the church.

1 Corinthians 12:12–13

Put names to faces. Meet the pastors, staff, elders, and deacons who serve Coral Ridge week by week.

Leadership & staff

“One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.”Psalm 145:4