Vision Statement
We aspire to be a church with a strong sense of mission.
Mission Statement
We exist to save souls and lead people to Christ.
Lake East Christian Church started the first Sunday services in October 1993. Before its establishment, Elder Shen and nearly ten brothers and sisters prayed and sought together for nearly a year. Since 1989, many families came to this area. Due to urban development, most of them gradually settled in the east side of Lake Washington. God has given us a vision to establish a church in the vast east side areas of Kirkland, Redmond, Bellevue, Bothell, Woodinville, and Issaquah. God has also given us a heart to care for the Chinese immigrants and preach the gospel. We wanted to witness the Lord’s love through the fellowship of believers, Bible study, and worship. At the beginning, there were only about 30 people and a few children. Three years later, there were nearly 100 people.
In the later 1996, we purchased the property where the current church is. This was only made possible by God’s provisioning and brothers and sisters’ faith. From January to March 1997, the church renovated the downstairs into classrooms, a cafe and a courtyard. The church held a dedication Sunday service on April 26, 1997, officially beginning God’s mission. Since then, God blessed this church greatly. Many friends who seek the gospel believe in the Lord, were baptized, and become children of God! Due to the increasing number of people in the church and the number of children, we built an additional education building in 2002.
From 2003 to 2023, God sent Pastor Wang Xiaogu and his wife to start English Sunday worship, youth ministry and family counseling services (2003-2011). Pastor Stephan Chen and his wife shepherd the church from 2012 to 2016. Pastor Li Pan and his wife joined the church in 2019. In 2021, Li Pan was ordained as the Chinese pastor of the church.
God’s grace for the Lake East Christian Church over the past thirty years has demonstrated that He can make things out of nothing. He is the God of blessings and grace. We deeply feel that “The Lord is my shepherd; I will not lack” (Psalm 23:1). He is a loving, faithful, holy, righteous, and gracious God. He is the head of the church, the source of all blessings!
Through Sunday worship, Sunday school, prayer meetings, Bible study groups, and various fellowship activities, LECC enables local believers and seekers to experience God’s presence together, support one another, and share each other’s burdens.
Ours Faith Statement
1. We believe that both Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, and without error in the original manuscripts. They are the ultimate standard for life and faith in the Christian life. They are God’s complete revelation for salvation for all humankind.
2. We believe in the one true God, who is from himself, eternal, infinite, and perfect. He exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in being, honor, and glory.
3. We believe God created the heavens and earth and all things therein and sustains all creation. He created humankind in His own image.
4. We believe the only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, who for the love of the humankind came into the world. He was born of the Virgin Mary, conceived by the Holy Spirit, named Jesus, who is both fully God and fully man. He demonstrated the love and life of God through his incarnation, and lived a sinless life, but was crucified on the cross for the sin of the world, died, was buried; he rose from the dead on the third day to complete God’s great work of salvation. And now he has ascended into Heaven and seated at the right hand of God, to be the Mediator between God and man; He will return to the world.
5. We believe the Holy Spirit is one of the three distinct persons of the Trinity; he dwells in the hearts of all believers and bestows power and spiritual gifts to sanctify and empower them to be witnesses of Christ; he unites the universal Church to be one in Christ and calls all people to be reconciled to the Lord through the Gospel. We believe the biblical descriptions of the gifts of the Spirit are for the building up of the church.
6. We believe that because of Adam and Eve’s fallenness, sin, and separation from God, everyone will die once, and after death, a judgment. The only way to salvation is through accepting Christ as the personal Lord and Savior; all who believe in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
7. We believe that all believers belong to God’s church. Christ is the head of the Church; the Church is the Body of Christ; believers mutually participate in one another’s life in this Body and are united to advance the gospel.
8. We believe in the physical resurrection of all mankind, whereby believers will receive eternal life and those who have refused the gift of salvation from God will be eternally punished according to their sins.
9. Baptism and Holy Communion are sacraments of the church, observed in obedience to Christ’s commands.
10. Baptism is the testimony, as a witness before the Lord and all creation, of acceptance of Jesus as one’s personal savior. We practice baptism by immersion and accept other believers regardless of their mode of baptism.
11. Holy Communion is a communal observance, through the use of the bread and the cup, of remembrance of the Lord Jesus’s death, his love as a symbol of covenant with Christ in anticipation of His Second Coming.
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. – 2 Corinthians 9: 6-7
If you’re interested in supporting our church, there are following ways to give online, in-person at a service, or by mail.
Zelle to: Letreasury@gmail.com
Check, write to: Lake East Christian Church
Mailing Address:
5241 116TH AVE NE, KIRKLAND, WA 98033
ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE AS LAKE EAST CHRISTIAN CHURCH IS AN APPROVED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION BY IRS WITH 501(c)(3) STATUS.
