Highlands Community 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 70 years later, God continues to use Highlands to help people find and follow Jesus. 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 continued to bless the congregation. Pastor Jim Amandus was conf...