Who We Are

Our History

ECC began as a small group of overseas students and families who met for fellowship on college campuses. Under the leadership of the late Reverend Paul Shen, the church was founded in 1967 with the vision to provide fellowship and witness for the Lord to new Mandarin-speaking Chinese immigrants settling in the Greater Seattle area.

Over the past fifty years, the Lord has blessed us to become a multi-generational, multilingual (Mandarin, Cantonese, and English), and multi-campus church. Additionally, we had planted three other churches, which are located in Tacoma, South King County, and Snohomish County. Seeing the growing ministry needs and strategic position of the North District, we have decided to combine with ECC Snohomish County to jointly develop the ministries in that area using the “One Church Multiple Campuses” model. Our members are from various backgrounds, and our church is not affiliated with any denomination.

What We Believe

  • We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These three are the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
  • We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testaments, which are verbally and plenarily inspired and inerrant in the original writing, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
  • We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man.
  • We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death which is separation from God. All human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word, and deed.
  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
  • We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us, as High Priest and Advocate.
  • We believe in the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit, who convicts the sinner, regenerates, indwells, enlightens, and guides the believer.
  • We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior are born again by the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God.
  • We believe in “that blessed hope,” the personal and pre-millennial and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
  • We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
Motto

Our Mission

ECC strives to be a Missional Church.  We seek to help people come into a relationship with Christ, grow and mature their faith through the Holy Spirit, be transformed into His likeness, share God’s love with those around us, and be a blessing to others in our community and in the world-all to the glory of God.

Our Mission Motto is: Faith to Faith, Life to Life, Generation to Generation