Joe Coudriet serves as one of the founding pastors of Family Life Church. Together with his wife, Dawn (transitioned to heaven in March 2023) they brought a commitment to teaching the Word of God in an atmosphere of truth in love. Joe is from Endicott, NY and Dawn was originally from Buffalo, NY. As a young couple the Coudriets lived in the Endicott area before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, where Joe began a successful career in Real Estate development before relocating to Syracuse, New York in early 1991.

In Syracuse they began to attend Abundant Life Christian Center, where they connected and served faithfully. In early 1994, a call to ministry was recognized by the church leadership and Joe left his secular career and together Joe and Dawn began to serve in committed ministry.

For 20 years they served faithfully, with Joe serving in a number of capacities as a teacher, facility developer and outreach director. Dawn developed an effective women’s ministry, created several small group programs and eventually served on the pastoral team, conducting counseling, making hospital visits and providing pre-marital preparation courses.

As founding pastor of FLC, Joe helps to insure, by God’s grace, that the mandate to ‘lead people into a real relationship with Jesus Christ’ is faithfully followed and provide teaching, instruction and shepherding to the flock that calls FLC home.