Calvary Chapel of Lake Stevens

We have been attending this church for about 8 years now and it is amazing!!! I’ve just read a couple reviews from people who had found it «cold” — I feel like you really need to get involved to get to know people. Or go on up and introduce yourself! We are a very friendly and welcoming bunch, we don’t bite! This church is such a dear family, the people I’ve met here are so willing to help and they have huge hearts for Jesus! Come on in!

Reading the first review made me so sad. It’s exactly what happened to my husband and I when we visited. What I loved about this church is that they had a Wednesday night service\study. They served a hot meal that tasted wonderful. However we walked in, got dinner sat down and ate, sat through the service and not one person approached us. I also loved the Saturday night service for those who work on Sundays. Fast forward to 4 visits later all the same as the first, finally a nice gentleman approached us and introduced himself which was nice but the pastor who saw us every week never spoke to us. I even emailed him and introduced myself and my husband and the next week he still didn’t acknowledge us. The parking lot is always packed on Sundays and as we drive by we always wonder what we were missing. What do all of these people have that we didnt. I do like that the church was musically based, the offering boxes hang in the back so there’s no pressure which is how I think it should be. My prayer is that the pastors start to greet new comers into their flock soon as they arrive. It’s important for me to believe in my pastor. God Bless

***6/​24/​14: I find it extremely sad that people from CC come to Unilocal,see that people are finding their church to be cold and cliquish (4 out of 8 reviews!), and their response is not to look at what their church could do to serve newcomers better and represent Christ in a more acceptable manner, but they find it somehow more appropriate to blame the visitors. How many people visit your church once or twice and just never return because they feel unwelcome? I would venture to guess that less than 1% of these people post something on Unilocal.For each of us that have posted about this experience here, there are probably many more that just shake their heads and walk away. Some likely never step foot in a church again. Perhaps those of you from CCLS should spend less time on Unilocal trying to convince people that our experiences are our faults, and go fix your church so you stop doing this to people.
New people shouldn’t have to push themselves into your presence, they should be made to feel welcome. Not everyone is going to be outgoing enough to put themselves out there, people in the church should be finding the new people and making them feel welcome. Not everyone is able to join the small groups or extra-​curricular activities, but shouldn’t they be made to feel welcome anyway? Until CCLS gets to a place that they aren’t making newcomers feel unwelcome, I’m afraid they will remain a clique of Christians and never know what it really feels like to be a warm and loving family where every member is cherished and welcomed. In the mean time… thank God there are other churches that get it!
Original review:
This is probably the most Bible based church I’ve ever attended, but they really miss the mark when it comes to people. It’s a very «cold» church. I’m about as friendly and outgoing as they come, yet I found it to be impossible to get to know anybody. I think it’s probably much easier if you have kids, but without kids there just isn’t any way to get to know people.
They do have some activities that we could have attended, except they are all later in the evening, which doesn’t work for early-​risers.
All in all, we found it to be very clique-​ish and unfriendly. It’s too bad because it was the closest thing we have found so far to a church that actually taught what is in the Bible. They just totally miss the mark when it comes to interpersonal relations — which is really what Jesus was all about, isn’t it?