Saint Mary's Episcopal Church and School in Lakewood has a history of serving military families. After walking through the front doors, the crimson carpet in the forum opens up and the chapel holds a congregation.
The school and teachers are an important piece to the Church. The year-round education and summer daycare program helps maintain a consistent, positive message.
Local residents prefering to worship in the Angelical tradition attend Eucharist services at Christ Episcopal Church of Puyallup. A reuniting of Catholicism and Protestantism, probably the most notable distinction of the Episcopalian/Angelical tradition is that sermons and teachings are taken from what is called The Book of Common Prayer.
Like Catholics, the catechism is used as the basis for teaching and, as in Protestantism, there's a strong emphasis placed upon ensuring that the congregation is permitted to worship in their first or native language, as opposed to Latin. At Church of Puyallup new-comers can expect a liturgical mass filled with hymns and prayers which lead up to the Eucharist or Holy Communion. Christ Episcopal offers two Eucharists on Sunday and a Wednesday Eucharist that includes lunch.
St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church is nestled among the trees on a hill overlooking Avondale Road in Woodinville. The church offers traditional worship services and Sunday school. Led by the Rev. Robert T. Davis and the Rev. Dr. Edward H. Miller, St. Bartholomew's offers a nursery, Bible study including The Truth Project and outreach projects with the Hopelink & Lovelink food banks.
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church is renovating its Sunday school area and nursery. Meeting rooms are also being built. The church is led by the Rev. Ann Luken and the Rev. John Schaffer.
- A welcoming congregation for spiritually searching and growing persons and families from Catholic, Protestant or any other background
- An episcopal parish, part of the world-wide Anglican Communion
- A diverse congregation united by worship and service
This church has three Sunday services, several weekday services and a number of ministries for the community's spiritual growth. The church is in partnership with the non-profit St. Andrew's Housing Group to build Andrew's Glen, an affordable housing complex that will be adjacent to the main church campus. Andrew's Glen will provide 40 new units of affordable housing through the nonprofit group.
St. Margaret's services cater to different worship styles, with a 7:15 a.m. service with no music, an 8:45 a.m. service with contemporary music and an 11 a.m. service with traditional hymns. The church also holds education for children, youth and adults at 10:10 a.m.
Congregation members also can join groups for men, mothers, single people and retired men. Youth ministries include a cafe and a pop music band.
The church also has a thrift shop, located at the back of the parking lot. Since it opened in 1977, the thrift shop has donated over a million dollars to non-profits.
St. John's Episcopal Church has a mission statement that "is to live God's word in our daily lives by caring, nurturing and serving each other and the community." The church had a small congregation in 1916 that met once a month. The present church building was built in 1948; the Church School was built in 1952 and had 35 children when opening. The church has two services on Sunday, Bible Study on Wednesdays and every second Wednesday of the month, it meets in the Hunt Chapel at 10am. In addition St. John's has a thrift shop, Sunday school and a Youth Group program. The church has a choir and an Adult Forum that meets weekly.
