Kirkland Church of the Nazarene 232 Fifth Ave. S PO Box 159 Kirkland, WA 98083-0159

Our foundational beliefs

We believe that:

• There is one God-revealed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• The Old and New Testament Scriptures, given by full inspiration, contain all truth necessary to faith and Christian living.
• Every person is born with a fallen nature, and is, therefore, inclined to evil continually.
• Those who never come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are hopelessly and eternally lost.
• The death of Jesus Christ on earth was necessary for the whole human race as the sacrifice for sins; and whoever repents and believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is justified, regenerated, adopted and saved from the dominion of sin.
• Believers are to be sanctified wholly, subsequent to regeneration, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• The Church is a community that confesses Jesus Christ as Lord,
  the covenant people of God made new in Christ, the Body of Christ called together by the Holy Spirit through the Word.
• Our Lord will return and the dead will be raised. The final
  judgment will take place.
• Water baptism and the Lord's Supper are sacraments to be
  celebrated by the Church.
• The Bible doctrine of divine healing is to be taken seriously
  for today.

A brief history...

In 1919 the little town of Kirkland served as a ferry terminal on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The community was comprised of a few small businesses and family dwellings.

Surrounded by small farms and forest, a wagon road ran out of town and up Rose Hill. On an October morning a group of people came together to form a church, and thus our first name, Rose Hill Church of the Nazarene.

In the 50's the church on Rose Hill was overflowing and plans to move began. The entire congregation went to prayer. Work begun at our current location in June 1953. It started with $400 in the bank and a bulldozer stuck in the mud!

Today, the City of Kirkland alone has a population of 43,720 with similar growth in the surrounding cities, now called the Eastside.

Today...

Who we are: Kirkland Church of the Nazarene (KCN) is comprised of 150+ families. We are an inter-generational and diverse group benefiting from the wisdom of our Senior Citizens and enlivened by our ever-growing nursery. In between you'll find every age represented, from all walks of life. We come from all directions, Everett to Auburn, Seattle to the Sammamish plateau. We are drawn together by our desire to know and serve God. Along the way, we get to know and value one another. We warmly welcome new attendees.

The Kirkland Church is denominationally connected to the Church of the Nazarene however we are a community centered home for followers of Jesus who come from a variety of backgrounds. Our Chinese Cantonese Church is active with its own Pastor and we have a Spanish Church.

What we do: We come together in a host of ways: home fellowship groups, musicals, Bible studies, prayer groups, Women's and Men's Ministry events, athletic events, exciting age level ministries, retreats and camps. We go to Mariners' games, have Easter egg hunts, always finding ways to enjoy life, one another and our children.

How we help: We have a motto around KCN: "Everyone a Minister." We teach our people that everyone is called into ministry so they should find a way to minister—and most do. Behind the scenes or on the stage; on site or off; caring for people or facilities; assisting newcomers, children or old timers. We do everything we can to let people know this church can be their home, and we can be family to them. We're all about people touching people with the love of Jesus.

Where we help: We reach out to people through feeding needy teenagers at the Kirkland Teen Center. We participate in Kirkland's interfaith ministry (KITH) helping people with transitional housing, counseling, and hot meals. We minister in a local nursing home. We began working with Love, Inc. as we endeavor to respond to community needs on the Eastside. We minister through our growing Chinese Church under the leadership of Pastor Ming. Each year we send a team of people somewhere in the world to build a church. We've been to Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Venezuela, Romania, Mozambique and Guatemala. And our teen ministry, Planet Youth, sends mission teams out every year.