this is an excellent parish and is our Parish home. If anyone is new to the area and is looking for…read morea parish home I highly recommend Holy Apostles.

Holy Apostles is a welcoming and vibrant Orthodox Christian parish. Fr. Tom is an incredible…read morepriest and leader of this growing community with many young families. Holy Apostles is not your typical "Greek" parish - as there are many people from many different ethnic backgrounds. Services and chanting is in English. You'll immediately feel welcome in this community of generous and kind people. If you are interested in learning more about the treasures of Orthodox Christianity lived out to the fullest - you'll want to visit Holy Apostles.

I was raised in SDA churches in the south, and left the church for the better part of 19 years…read more This church was recommended to me by my mother because of its more progressive attitudes. When I chose to re-enter the church. I was looking for community and fellowship, without the institutional hullabaloo that seems to be crystallizing in many churches. I was deeply moved by the pastors sermon about corruption within the church, as he bookended how we as a church can make a difference. He has also espoused queer affirmation theology, which is a radical departure from the institutional church. The church itself is modest but has a lot of soul, and a large contingent of dedicated members who bring so much life into it. Within its congregation is a member who is 103 years old and just as lively as if she were 20! The pipe organ plays every Saturday and this church is starting up its choir pretty soon. I love the music. Brings me peace of mind in troubling times such as these. There is no expectation of belief. Only acceptance and fellowship. If you are uncertain about everything this is your church!

Mom's Church SITREP…read more So when I am committed to a full weekend with the mom, it sometimes means a Sabbath morning excursion to the church where her official SDA membership is registered. I make no pretense to being a fan of organized religion anymore. However, having said that, there is a lot of positive interaction that can be achieved through community with different churches, including this one. THE SETUP Ironically, my exposure to this particular church predates my mother's in fact. I first came to this church back in 1988 when it hosted the Association of Adventist Forums (AAF) meetings. AAF is a philosophically more progressive element of the SDA Church, though it doesn't really engender any official status with the SDA Church. Shortly around this time, I moved to California with my then-wife, but humorously enough, my mother then maintained her SDA membership in this church. CHURCHY FUNCTIONS The church structure itself is really quite elegant. It has a lot of beautiful rooms and space, including the large sanctuary where the worship services take place as well as the subterranean level where a lot of Sabbath School classes (before the main service at 11am) transpire. They have some pretty kick-ass potlucks, I must say, and when it was my mom's time (since she is a deaconess) to help with the organization, she really puts on a great spread of food for all the members. VISITORS Since I grew up in the SDA Church and went to SDA Academy and College, I have a lot of visitors from both these phases in my life whom will pay a visit to our family in Seattle. This is the church we will are most inclined to bring our guests with our mom to. THE LOWDOWN A pleasant church experience if your interests run this direction.

I have been a member here for over 10 years and enjoy the welcoming parishioners, the beautiful…read moremusic and the commitment to helping the community.

We attended Ascension for many years when we lived in the Magnolia/Seattle area and were always…read moreimpressed by their warmth and welcoming nature. Ascension has probably the best Music Director/Organist and choral group of any church we have ever attended. Come for the worship, but stay for the coffee hour and fellowship. We really miss our friends in the Pacific Northwest!

My wife and I spent a year looking for a church to settle our family into on the eastside. We went…read morethrough lots of great bible churches but none of them really seemed to fit us right. Then, we finally came to CCE and were amazed at how much we liked it. The congregation is much smaller than we were used having grown up in large churches. However, we were impressed with how friendly and inviting everyone is. Beyond this, we really love the preaching which is loving to everyone but not afraid to tell the truth of what the bible says, which is sometimes hard to hear. We have 2 kids (6 years and 3 years) and both of them love their classes on Sunday morning. If you are looking for a new church home, you should really give CCE a try!

Great church. Will be making it our home church. Close by and a 5 minute ride. Lots of love…read moreduring our visit

I appreciate the people of Mountain Ridge a great deal. They are down to earth, thoughtful,…read moreintelligent, and giving. I come away from services with things to think about, issues to ponder perhaps differently than I had been to that point, a depth or nuance of perspective on something I may have thought I already knew but didn't, and regular challenges to put faith into practice day by day where it makes a difference in action and isn't just a passive belief system. This church has people who are faithful and understand faithfulness. A lot of people think a lot of other things matter so much when it comes to church and what church is for and what the definition of a "successful" church is and how to turn church into what "we" may want, but Mountain Ridge isn't about a lot of these other things. We are about faithfulness to God. To what He asks of us. And to how to best serve others. This church's people try to keep its core purposes simple and undistracted, have for decades now, which I respect. I appreciate that there are honorable, thinking, and thoughtful people here who are doing their best to live out being faithful to God and to loving one's neighbors faithfully and well. I have been with this church since its beginning. I have been amazed at all God has done. How God has provided beyond what we could have imagined. How we are led over and over again to serve one another and our community, to love bigger and courageously, not small-mindedly and self-protectively, and to be thinkers and thoughtful in our faith. God has been ever present here. So many stories I could tell of his incredible faithfulness to us, his presence, his guidance, his provision. Just really thankful for being able to be a part of this church for so long and witness all God wanted to do here over the last two decades, and then some. God has led it. He has gone before it and will go after it. I have grown in my faith and as a person because of being a faithful part of Mountain Ridge. I have been changed by it. Nothing else in life challenges me more than this faith. Challenges me to serve others when I feel like serving myself. Challenges me to love people who are unlike myself. Challenges me to make effort to understand. Challenges me to be sacrificial. Challenges me to forgive. Nothing else challenges me to be my best self and give of my best to others more than this faith. Nothing. Mountain Ridge Community Church is about these kinds of core things. Not much else. And that's something I will always appreciate about the people and ministry here.

Julfest is coming up at Seattle first on Dec 8th at 4 pm. Don't miss this annual scandinavian…read moreadvent celebration with the St. Lucia processional, kid choirs, and festive Christmas carols. Love the great treats afterwards, too. Free parking, free admission. They usually do an offering to help a well known charity as well - so you can being the seasons giving that way. Always a great time - good for the kids, especially the 4-10 set. The church is always so beautiful inside with the candlelight.

This church does not fully affirm LGBTQIA+ people. I'm sure it's happy enough to have them attend,…read morebut the denomination does not perform or recognize same-sex marriages, which is surely a deal-breaker for any actually affirming ally.

Definitely somewhere I love to be on a Sunday Morning. People here are friendly and loving. You…read morefind a sense of community within the theater walls. I highly recommend visiting when you get the opportunity!

I've only been to CityHill once in May 2019 (my home church is Reality SF in San Francisco where I…read morecurrently live) but I was deeply moved and felt the presence of the Holy Spirit here. Love the worship, vibrancy, and energy of the church. The leadership is modern so it won't feel like a multigenerational church, but they have an anointing and covering in the teaching that is convicting and powerful. Convicting and powerful are the two best words I can use to describe my experience here. The teaching is rooted in scripture and I think really highly of this young church :) I was really impressed and deeply moved.

We loved the pastor Kevin there. He is one the of best pastors we have ever met. However we had the…read moreworst experience ever in a the local church in Bellevue. We were new to the church and we thought we found our home church. When Kevin came to our branch for a book signing event, we were so exited to get a chance to meet him and talked about how appreciate we felt about the service. We were told we couldn't join the line coz we don't have a book. I bought the book but left at home. We explained that we just want to have a quick chat with him. Guess what? We were not allowed. What??? We can't talk to our pastor??? In which church you can't talk to your pastor? Sorry we can't join a church with no real community in mind. Very disappointing...

Love the message each week from Pastor Kevin- very relevant to everyday life…read more Champion Centre does a great job on making everyone feel welcome. Music is amazing.