Mobilizing the Priesthood of All Believers

We partner with congregations and mission teams to equip leaders, plant Christ-proclaiming ministries and churches, and see the gospel take root in every community of Southern California from the I-5 & US-101 corridors to the Pacific Ocean.

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Our Vision

100 new gospel ministries & 25 new mission congregations by mid 2031

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Our Foundation

Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone as defended in the Lutheran Confessions.

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Our Method

Establishing existing and new churches in the gospel for the sake of Christ’s mission.

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We come alongside your church or mission team to form leaders and equip you to make disciples.

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Join a local equipping cohort where faith, theology, and daily vocation meet.

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Walk alongside others—churches, leaders, and communities—advancing the gospel together.

Mission in SoCal

Meet our mission teams and discover where God is at work along the coast.

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Where the Gospel is taking root

  • Ventura Mission Team

    The remnants of a new church plant that almost didn’t make it through Covid have been rebuilding their team, redefining their mission, and are well on their way to becoming a mission congregation.

  • Santa Clarita Mission Team (En Español)

    This team is in the beginning stages of recruiting, formation, and groundwork in partnership with Bethlehem SCV and under the leadership of mission leader Vanessa March.

  • San Fernando Soccer

    FIFA soccer coach, Issa Safadi, is a seminary student and missionary to the San Fernando Valley with extensive church planting experience. He and his family landed in Granada Hills in early summer 2025. Issa, a Jordanian immigrant, uses soccer to build connections with the Arab-speaking community among whom he already is gathering 3 mission communities which he intends to form into mission congregations over the next months.

  • Venice Recovery

    In partnership with 1st Lutheran of Venice, Pastor John Palka, and mission leader Jeremy Matthews are in the process of planning and building a team that will start a new gospel-focused recovery ministry to serve the people of Venice.

  • South Orange County Recovery Communities

    Evangelist Eric Schulken is using the redemption in Christ that he’s experienced in his life to build recovery communities in South Orange County. So far in 2025, he has build 3 different communities who are being discipled toward freedom in Christ. Since July 2025, over 30 people have been baptized through his ministry, and he is partnering with several churches in South Orange County and North San Diego County.

  • San Clemente Mission Team

    Through the relationships he’s building through surfing, recovering ministries, and other relationships, Evangelist Eric Schulken and Pastor John Alwood are working with a newly forming mission team in San Clemente with the intention of planting what will become new mission congregation.

  • El Dorado Pickleball with Friends

    Sheri Esswein, member of Bethany Lutheran in Long Beach had a vision to start a pickleball club in her retirement as a way to bring friends together and make new ones. Her ministry has grown to multiple locations with dozens of pickle ballers playing each week. The courts have been a great place to build relationships with gospel-intentionality.

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“A church is never truly established until it becomes itself a source of mission—until it sends out its own to proclaim the gospel as it once received it.”

- John Alwood, Coastal’s Founding Director

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