Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale

Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale was founded in 1985 by Bob Coy, who left the Las Vegas music industry for ministry before heading to South Florida. The church grew into one of the largest in the state, with average attendance over 20,000 and regional campuses from the Florida Keys to Boca Raton. After Coy resigned in 2014, Doug Sauder was confirmed as lead pastor and has led the church through the decade since. CCFL is part of the Calvary Chapel movement, known for verse-by-verse Bible teaching.

Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale reaches 55,460 combined followers across three platforms, the smallest audience in this stretch of the index. YouTube leads at 29,000 subscribers, up 11.54 percent over the past year with video published as recently as June 7, 2026. Instagram adds 25,724 followers on @calvaryftl, and TikTok holds 736. Notably, there is no Facebook audience in the dataset, a rare gap for a church of this physical size.

The velocity score of 66.5 is the highest of any church ranked 71 through 80, and it is doing the heavy lifting. With a reach score of just 20.3, CCFL ranks here almost entirely on momentum and consistency rather than audience size. A church with 20,000 in weekly attendance and only 55,000 online followers has an obvious mismatch, and the index suggests the team knows it: YouTube is growing at double digits and the publishing cadence is weekly. The missing Facebook presence is the strangest hole in this batch. Fill it, and the rank likely jumps.