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East Shore was founded in 1948. The congregation grew quickly, and in 1950 the Sanctuary was built in Bellevue. We currently serve over 500 adults and over 100 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.
We are a caring, religious community inspired by our Unitarian Universalist heritage.
We grow souls and bring peace and justice to our lives and our world.