Our Story

Mt. View Presbyterian Church, located in White Center, has a longstanding commitment to children and youth that dates back to the early 1900s and this legacy continues today. Each week, the building is filled with children and youth engaged with caring and committed adults.

While MVPC has remained a faithful member of the White Center community, it faces many of the same challenges that other urban churches and communities face all around the country: poverty, high drop out rates, crime, youth violence, and more.

Over the years, MVPC and its partners have addressed these challenges by:

Providing quality programs that build on the skills, talents and education of young people
Consistently facilitating the important relational connection between adults and youth
Living out a spiritual mandate to love and care for our neighbors in the name of Christ
While the small MVPC congregation is experiencing exciting growth, years of declining membership made it nearly impossible to maintain the facility. The capacity to provide effective programming is severely limited by significant deterioration of the building and campus.

Our Partner Church
Mt. View Presbyterian Church owes a great debt of gratitude to University Presbyterian Church, located in the University district. The two churches have enjoyed a longstanding partnership. While the two faith communities serve very different neighborhoods, together they have demonstrated the very best practices of what it means to operate as the Church: The diversity of gifts and strengths coming together to love people in the name of Christ. This partnership has a successful track record of working together in unique ways.

This partnership has expressed itself in an exciting initiative called “Build Up The House.”
Shoulder to shoulder, we will be an expression of Christ to build up the Church in Seattle by:

partnering across diverse communities
rejuvenating ministry space
creating shared ministry opportunities

We are living this mission out to the very fullest… and most concretely through addressing the building needs of Mt. View Presbyterian Church so that its important work in the neighborhood with children and youth might continue on for years to come.