Starting May 27th, our permanent location will be Meadowbrook Community Center. See you there!
The very first thing we’ll ask of you is simple: relax. You don’t have to dress up. We don’t care who you voted for in the last election. And please, don’t feel the need to pretend about anything. We started EastLake as a safe environment for regular people to explore faith within community. Everyone is welcome here, whatever your story, your questions, doubts or struggles. So come as you are, because that’s where God meets us — as is. From there, we’ll help each other grow to be all God intended us to be.
WHAT TO EXPECT ON A SUNDAY:
- friendly people will help you find your way around
- kids will enjoy their own fun, age appropriate classes during the adult service
- a live band will play 3 songs (you can just listen or sing along)
- someone will pray and say “hi”
- someone will talk about something that matters to your life
- …and the whole thing will be over in about 70 minutes
EastLake is a non-denominational, inter-generational, multi-locational (is that a word?), somewhat disorganized church started by nine friends in 2005. For us, its all about, all because of, and all for… Jesus. It’s not about buildings with baristas, bowling alleys or bookstores. We want to embody the church Jesus had in mind and he never saw church as a place to go, but as a people… not a religious institution, but a movement of love and hope. We think this whole faith thing is at its best when it motivates selfless service, sacrifice, and love… caring about the things God cares about. As a family of faith, we are committed to dispense hope to our local communities and beyond… standing up for those who live on their knees by both bringing good news and being good news. We were all created to live for something larger than ourselves and God invites everyone, everywhere into this way of living.
ACTION
People we like, have partnered with and believe in:
WHAT WE (aspire to) BELIEVE
We think the world is tired of religious people who claim to believe a list of ideas when those very ideas don’t translate into any kind of personal transformation. Plus, we see belief as a dynamic lived out in reality, which doesn’t translate well into a few paragraphs on a website. Our modern world has embraced a mind and body dualism so much that we’ve created a culture where a man may betray his wife and children and still claim he ‘loves them deep down’.
For EastLake, we want to embrace a holistic view of faith. One where words of the heart manifest themselves in deed. In other words, you only believe what you DO. The sad truth is, there are days when our lives express our belief in God, and there are other days when our beliefs are merely empty statements we live in spite of. Ultimately, you can find our actual beliefs in the lived out expressions of our collective lives. The statement pdf below is therefore merely that, a statement. Its something you might say we’re relying on, or trusting in. And its something that ultimately we aspire to believe… not just in our hearts and minds, but in the way that we live in this world.
