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Causes: Christianity, Protestant, Religion, Religion-Related
Mission:
Coral Ridge Ministries’ mission is to use media to introduce people to Jesus Christ; nurture and encourage Christians; and reform cultures
Results: During the Coral Ridge Ministries fiscal year 2008-2009, your faithfulness in prayer and giving has led to an array of achievements for which we can thank God together. With your help, Coral Ridge Ministries: • Delivered 3,729 signed petitions asking President George W. Bush to declared the last week of November, America’s Christian Heritage Week. • Collected more than 18,000 petitions asking presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama to meet with Coral Ridge Ministries’ representatives Jennifer Kennedy Cassidy and Dr. Jerry Newcombe. Both candidates declined. • Changed to an outside distribution and fulfillment provider which allows Coral Ridge Ministries to fulfill product orders for much less and to sharply reduce product order times. • Sounded the alarm on the danger of hate crime laws by producing the DVD, Assault on Liberty, and the book, Ten Truths About Hate Crime Laws. • Published “Think. Pray. Vote.” ad in Washington Times just before the November election. Produced and distributed a companion “Think. Pray. Vote.” video. • Produced and aired Is Jesus God?, a documentary that answers modern attacks on the divinity of Christ. • Helped save four infants from abortion through abortionanswersnow.com, a Coral Ridge Ministries-produced website that directs abortion-minded women to crisis pregnancy centers. • Placed ad in Washington Times urging then-President-elect Obama to uphold faith- and family friendly principles. • Published All the President’s Men and Women, a handy guide to the people and politics of the new Obama administration. • Produced and aired Freedom to Kill, a powerful documentary on the Freedom of Choice Act that generated the largest response to a Coral Ridge Ministries resource in almost two years. • Forwarded some 14,000 petitions opposing the Freedom of Choice Act to President Barack Obama and Congress. • Took cameras inside the new Capitol Visitor Center in Washington to show how lawmakers censored God from this new $621 million complex. • Delivered more than 11,000 petitions to Washington demanding that Congress revise exhibits in the Capitol Visitor Center “to reflect with truth and historical accuracy the role of God and the Christian faith in the formation of our nation.” • Offered Coral Ridge Hour viewers special programming on the proper role of government in a free, private economy. Published The Mortgaging of America, an insightful and timely collection of messages from Dr. Kennedy on the dangers of socialism and unrestrained federal spending. • Mounted a campaign to obtain more than 15,000 signatures on a powerful and biblical Economic Manifesto that was sent to Washington lawmakers. • Brought well-known Christian social conservative Robert Knight on staff to serve as a Senior Writer and Correspondent from Washington. Knight is a frequent guest on radio talk shows and his columns regularly appear on Townhall.com, Americanthinker.com, and at Coralridge.org. • Alerted Coral Ridge Hour viewers to the threat posed to free speech and religious liberty by the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a proposal to regulate speech on America’s airwaves. Published the booklet, Not Fair, Not Free: The Fairness Doctrine Campaign to Crush Free Speech, by Robert Knight • Published the booklet, Freedom From Financial Fear, a relevant and useful series of messages on money from Dr. D. James Kennedy. • Produced and aired daily 90-second Learn2Discern Christian worldview video commentaries that stream online and air on numerous broadcast stations across the nation. • Published the new book by Robert Knight, Fighting for America’s Soul: How Sweeping Change Threatens Our Nation and What We Must Do. • Offered men and women the opportunity each week on The Coral Ridge Hour to pray and profess faith in Christ as their Lord and Savior. “I said the prayer on TV,” a woman from California wrote, “and am writing for my free copy of Beginning Again [Dr. Kennedy’s book for new believers].”
Geographic areas served: Nationwide and overseas
Programs: Our television program, The Coral Ridge Hour, is aired weekly on more than 600 stations, several cable outlets, and in 156 nations on the Armed Forces Network. Truths that Transform is a daily half hour program that airs on more than 500 radio outlets nationally. The Kennedy Commentary is a daily 90-second radio feature, and Reclaiming America is a daily 60-second radio commentary.