Clear Creek Church

As part of an effort to reach children in this community, and the vision of a widow woman to start a Bible Camp for children in the area, God led Wally and Inez Wilson to Renton and to eventually start what is now Highlands Community Church. Today, over 60 years later, God continues to use Highlands as a light on the hill.


Highlands Community Church had its humble beginnings in 1943 when local Protestant churches sought to provide services for 10,000 Boeing Corporation employees living in a temporary war housing project.

In 1946, six people met with a young pastor who had served three summers at a Bible camp ministering to the children of the temporary community. That young pastor, Wallace Wilson, was asked to establish a permanent church in the area. On the third Sunday of September of that year, they gathered for their first service at the Renton Highlands Housing Administration building.


The Lord has continued to bless that congregation to the point where it stands today. Pastor Jim Amandus was confirmed to be his successor by the Elder Board and congregation and has faithfully served as Senior Pastor since January of 1989. The congregation has doubled in size in numbers as well as community and world wide impact. By faith, we believe that Highlands' greatest days of kingdom impact lie ahead.

What We Believe


The Scriptures
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Matthew 5:18; John 16:12-13)


The Godhead
We believe that there is one God eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Deuteronomy 6:4; 2 Corinthians 13:14)


Man's Creation and Fall
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sin nature and consequent alienation from God, and came under the judicial sentence of death. (Genesis 1:26; Romans 3:22 and 6:23)


The Person and Work of Christ
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ; in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, and vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood; in His bodily resurrection and ascension to the right hand of the Father; and in His personal return for His church and with His church in power and glory. (Romans 3:25; Hebrews 7:24-25; Titus 2:13; 1 Corinthians 15; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; John 20:31)


The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, in the present age indwells all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, baptizes them into the body of Christ, and seals them unto the day of redemption, and that every believer is commanded of God to be filled with the Holy Spirit. (Acts 1:8; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; Ephesians 5:18-20; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17)


Salvation
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that this faith is manifested in works pleasing unto God. (Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12; 1 John 5:11-13)


The Church
We believe that the church, which is the body and bride of Christ, is made up of all born again persons in this age of grace, irrespective of their affiliation with Christian organization. (Ephesians 1:2-23 and 5:25-27; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14)
The Final State
We believe that the condition and retribution of the lost and the salvation and blessedness of the saved are conscious and everlasting. (Mark 9:43-48; John 5:28-29 and 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5-15)