About Us

WHO ARE WE?

We are a non profit organization serving alongside the churches of Seattle. We are a people of prayer and worship, committed to returning daily before God with thanks, praise, and intercession.

Returning Daily To God
As Our First Love: We are committed to loving God first.
As the Bride: We are committed to being God’s bride bringing tender and holy hearts before God.
As the Priesthood:
-We are committed to reinstating modern day Levites to minister before God with praise and worship.
-We are committed to joining Jesus’ ongoing ministry of praying the will of the Father for the world.
Adoration House exists to minister to the Lord through prayer, worship, and hosting His presence, both in the prayer room and across the city.
Overview
Adoration House exists to be a House of Prayer in Seattle, Washington. Over the last 10 years, the Lord has been raising up Houses of Prayer across the globe as he calls Christian communities back to the crucial spiritual discipline of fervent prayer. We recognize prayer as a primary function of covenantal relationship with God and believe this prayer movement is rooted in the Lord's desire for His people to turn their faces towards Him in intimate relationship. As such, our desire is to be a people who return daily to God with our whole selves and serve as a catalyst for others to do the same. Adoration House has a two-part goal, first to plant and facilitate a prayer room that is set apart for ministering to the Lord and second, to build up a praying people across the Church in our city.
The Prayer Room
The prayer room will serve as a physical space in the city open Monday through Friday where Christians from across the city can minister to the Lord daily. In the prayer room, prayer leaders and worship leaders will work together to facilitate one to two hour prayer sets that run morning till evening. The heartbeat of the prayer room is, first and foremost, for the Lord to be ministered to through prayer and worship. Secondly, it is to serve as a rally point in the city where believers, from different communities, come together in a unified expression of intercession for one another, the city, and the world. The physical space and culture of the prayer room will be facilitated by Adoration House and our staff, but a large emphasis will be placed on partnering with believers from across local churches and the marketplace.
Adoration House Staff
The Adoration House Staff will serve as modern day Levites within the prayer room, echoing the ministry of the Priests in the Davidic Tabernacle (1 Chronicles 9:33). Their time will be dedicated to learning the Scriptures, growing in their understanding of the call to prayer, participating in Adoration House’s logistical responsibilities, and foremost ministering to the Lord . They will also serve with partners throughout Seattle; attending prayer/worship gatherings to help foster unity in prayer across the city.
The Role of Local Churches & Marketplace
Local churches and Marketplace believers are a critical component of the Adoration House vision. Adoration House desires to be a neutral space for the local church to participate in prayer together. In order to function as such, we hope to foster relationships with Pastoral Teams, Christian Marketplace Leaders, and City Intercessors to build a space for believers of the city to use throughout the week, while still attending their respective churches. Our goal is to partner with prayer leaders and worship leaders from various Church communities to join the Adoration House Staff in ministering to the Lord through facilitating prayer sets and participating in the prayer room.
Summary
Ultimately, our hope for Adoration House is that we would be an extension of Jesus’ teaching on the greatest commandment, to “love the Lord Your God” and second, to “love your neighbor as yourself.” We desire to be a place for the Bride of Christ to come and behold Jesus, meeting with the living God in the House of Prayer. In meeting with Him, we gain His heart for our city and His affection for those around us. We see the act of corporately returning daily to God as a crucial part of seeing His promises fulfilled in our city. We are expectant to see the Lord pour out His Spirit on Seattle and bring His lost children home. Adoration House is excited to play its part in this city-wide move of God.
In 2012 our founder Millie had a vision of the Holy Spirit saturating the downtown area of Seattle. Eventually the spirit saturated the west coast and then the whole of the United States. Planting Adoration House came out of a response to that vision and a deep conviction that the Lord desires Seattle as a resting place for his presence. Millie began planting in January of 2021 when she began gathering people to pray in her living room which eventually turned into gathering in various businesses.
In January of 2022 the Lord invited a small team of us to start helping plant. Our planting process has remained about one thing, ministering to Jesus. He has been so faithful to lead us over the last two years as we've gathered to simply be with Him. In February 2022 he blessed us with the donation of a building located in the University District.
Along with the building, we were gifted a fully funded remodel of the space in order to establish the prayer room here long term. Construction will begin this year!
We are located in the University District of Seattle which is just a couple blocks away from the University of Washington. This area is known for its student population, prominent houseless community and international marketplace. Because of the nature of this neighborhood it's easy for people to initially wonder why we would want to be here, there is abundant crime and drug use. Brokenness and sinful nature is on full display specifically on the street our building is located on. We believe the Lord so clearly placed us in this neighborhood and is giving us a heart for this district and street. He loves it here, and people are being changed by the presence of God through prayer.

CORE BELIEFS

We believe that God’s most important commandment and desire for human kind is to love Him. Jesus was asked which of the commandments was the greatest and he responds by quoting Deuteronomy 6, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:28-31) Jesus highlights what was meant to be intuitive in hearing the 10 Commandments. The first three of the 10 Commandments were created to call the people of Israel back into their covenantal relationship with YHWH. The other seven dealt with their relationships with other people. (Exodus 20:2-7) Jesus simplifies the list of 10 by saying love God and then love people.
The order in which these two commands fall is important. We are called to love God with all our heart, all our soul, all our strength. In other words, every inch of your being. God desires a people whose devotion and love is reserved for Him alone. Loving our neighbors comes, but it is secondary. This isn’t because God is selfish, it is because loving Him first is befitting of who He is.
Throughout the whole Bible we see God calling for His people to return to Him as their primary love. God pursues His people with His steadfast enduring love in order to have this reciprocated. 1 John 4 reminds us that we only Love him because he first loved us. We see the theme of “first love” begin with the fall of man into sin. God promises Adam and Eve to restore His intimate relationship with them. He then enters into a covenantal relationship with Abraham, Moses, and David. He sends judges and prophets to call the people of Israel back to Himself, reminding them of His promises. He comes to Earth as the incarnate Christ to restore us and display His love for us through the cross.
He sends His spirit to dwell within us and promises that He will return one day for us. The point being, He is a God who pursues intimacy with mankind and He shows us His desire for “first love” by loving us first.
The book of Joel depicts this desire of God so beautifully stating, “Even now, declares the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.” (Joel 2:12-13) God desires not just our Christian actions, or our “rended garments” as Joel calls them, but our hearts! As God extends His love to us our response should be to return to Him as our first love.
The term ministering (or minister, ministry, ministered) is used at least 90 times in the (ESV) Bible, half of those times it doesn’t refer to man's ministry towards other people, but of man’s ministering to the Lord. Exodus introduces this phrase into the Biblical narrative as Moses sets up the first tent of meeting where God was to meet with His people. Aaron and his sons are consecrated as priests who are to “minister within the holy place.” (Exodus 28:35-43)
This term is found throughout Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, 1 Kings, 1 Samuel, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Nehemiah, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezra. This doesn’t include the times the concept of “ministering to the Lord” is mentioned, but simply the derivatives of the word. The Hebrew word most commonly translated into “minister” is sarat (shaw-rath). It means to minister, to serve, to attend as a menial or worshiper, to contribute ministry or service to, to wait upon. This was the duty of the priests. To serve God in the holy place by waiting upon Him and attending to Him with worship. Although a primary task of the priests was to maintain the sacrificial system, making atonement for the sins of the Israelites, it wasn’t their only duty. They were also meant to bless the Lord (Deuteronomy 10:8) and bring him praise and thanksgiving (1 Chronicles 16:4) through prayer and worship. Throughout these Old Testament books you can track a theme of spiritual revival that follows the people of God every time the priests were reinstated into their position of ministering to the Lord, specifically with praise and thanksgiving.
King David, after finding the ark of the covenant (where the presence of God was housed), builds a tent or tabernacle for it in Jerusalem. He then brings thousands of musicians and hundreds of singers into the city to be employed with one sole purpose, to minister to the Lord with praise and thanksgiving. (1 Chronicles 23-26) The priests did not continue to make sin offerings, only offerings of prayer and worship. These were the main markings of the tabernacle or tent of David. It was why he became passionate about seeing a temple built. He wanted a fitting place for the presence of God to be praised around the clock. (Psalm 132, 2 Samuel 7)
We believe that the call to “minister to the Lord” transcends the Old Testament. The prophet Amos declared that in the generation of the Lord’s return, He would rebuild David’s fallen tent. James quotes this in Acts 15 and declares that David’s tent would be rebuilt and result in the rest of mankind seeking the Lord. ** Even Jesus emphasizes this call to prayer when, after cleansing the temple, he says, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer.” (Matthew 21:13)
We believe that, as Christians, we are now the temple of God and dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. (1 Peter 2:5) We believe that Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for our sins and therefore the sacrificial system is no longer needed. However, we hold the conviction, like David, that the Lord still delights in spaces set apart for Him where His people offer Him thanksgiving and praise for who He is and all He has done for us.
** UPPERROOM Prayer Manuel Pg. 7
A Levite is a term that comes from the old testament priesthood, It speaks about a people who are marked with a full time call to minister to God before the presence of God.

More detailed, a “Levite” indicated the Israelites that belonged to the tribe of Levi. The Levites were chosen by God to be set apart to minister within the temple alongside Aaron (the first Priest). King David reinstated the Levites to their God given position when he placed them in the tabernacle, where the ark of the covenant was, in order to spend their time worshiping before God’s presence. The Levites of David’s tabernacle were called to give God sacrifices of praise and thanks instead of animals. They did this day and night year round as a mirror of the worship happening in heaven before God’s throne.

Although we don’t claim to actually belong to the tribe of Levi, we believe there is an invitation to walk with the same Levitical call of ministry to the Lord. We see the Apostles speak to this in the new testament: the finished work of Jesus has made us a royal priesthood Rev 5:9-10.