East Shore Unitarian Church

East Shore was founded in 1948.  The congregation grew quickly, and in 1950 the Sanctuary was built in Bellevue.  We currently serve over 700 adults and over 300 children and youth through worship, life-long education, fellowship, social justice, and community outreach.
Unitarian Universalists believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion.  In the end, religious authority lies not in a book, person, or institution, but in ourselves.  We put religious insights to the test of our hearts and minds.  Ours is a free faith.

Our congregations are self-governing.  Authority and responsibility are vested in the members themselves.  Each local congregation—called a church, society, or fellowship—adopts its own bylaws, elects its own officers, calls its own ministers, and approves its budget.

Our Mission

We are a caring, religious community inspired by our Unitarian Universalist heritage.

Our Vision

We grow souls and bring peace and justice to our lives and our world.

Core Values

Our core values inform what we do and how we wish to be.

• Love-is at the heart of our covenant and is a more powerful bond than any creed.
• Transformational Truth-we are willing to be changed by our experience and understanding, one with another, across the generations.
• Freedom-Faith cannot be coerced.
• Hope and Celebration- the resources for a meaningful, celebratory and fulfilling life are present and available to all people.
• Humility- we claim neither a special place within creation nor exclusive access to the divine which create and uphold existence.
• Invitation- the doors to our sanctuary are open.  The religious life is not a spectator sport.