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This year, NetWork Christian Church marks 30 years of Christian service in the greater Seattle area. In 1994, Pastor Dino Miciano and his family were sent as missionaries to the city of Seattle through Word for the World Christian Fellowship. Pastor Dino met up with a group of Christian believers living in Seattle, who had laid the foundation for a church planting effort.
The church holds services at 10 a.m. every Sunday at Shoreline Elks Lodge, 14625 15th Ave NE, Shoreline, WA 98155.
A Church on the Move
The Seattle church met in various locations during it’s history. Upon Pastor Dino’s arrival, the church had it’s first service at the American Legion building in Shoreline but continued it’s succeeding services at the University Plaza Hotel (now the Cosmopolitan Apartments) within the Wallingford neighborhood in Seattle. After the contract at the University Plaza Hotel expired, the church temporarily moved to John and Elaine Foz’s office space located next to the Space Needle. The church quickly outgrew this space and moved to the landmark, China Harbor building, along Lake Union in Seattle.
It was during our China Harbor days that the church experienced the most growth with over 250 people attending it’s church services. Members were coming from all over the greater Seattle region (as far north as Everett, as far south as Puyallup, as far east as Issaquah and as far west as West Seattle).
A Time of Turmoil
Unfortunately, in 1998, Word for the World in the Philippines went through a time of turmoil which split the church internationally. Many of the US and international churches around the world moved away to form Word International Ministries (WIN). Word for the World in Seattle became Word International Ministries: Seattle.
In 1999, Pastor Dino and church members from south Seattle planted a WIN church in Federal Way, WA. That church continues to exist and is currently pastored by Pastor Vino Atienza, who happens to be a childhood friend of Pastor Dino.
Expansion
It was in September of 2002, that God moved the leadership of the church to take a different direction from WIN, and so NetWork Christian Ministries was born. NetWork Christian Ministries, which was still meeting at the China Harbor building, intentionally launched 3 churches in the year 2007 – Mountlake Terrace, West Seattle and Federal Way.
Since then, the West Seattle and Federal Way churches closed it’s doors and all that remains is the church in Shoreline (which formerly met at a Christian school in Mountlake Terrace).
In 2012, NetWork began planting churches in the southern regions of the Philippines. Today, there are three NetWork Churches in the Philippines located in NetWork: Silay City, Negros Occidental; NetWork: Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental and NetWork: Davao City, Davao del Sur.
Until He Returns
It is NetWork’s vision to pursue building the Shoreline church by reaching out to it’s neighbors and neighboring communities, planting seeds of the Gospel in people’s lives and eventually bringing a harvest of more souls to the Kingdom of God.
We continue to wait for God’s direction for our next steps in building a lasting legacy of God’s work in our city, in the Philippines, and wherever God directs. We will continue to connect people to God and to one another through the life changing power of the Gospel of Christ and by loving all and being God’s voice, His hands and His feet to the world.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.(October 2024)
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