Crista Ministries

CRISTA (ChRISTianity in Action) is a family of ministries headquartered since 1948 in the Richmond Highlands neighborhood of Shoreline, Washington, just north of Seattle.

The company focuses in the areas of education, global relief & development, youth camps, senior care, and media.

In the early 1950s, King's Garden expanded both its operations and geography with Miracle Ranch, a summer camp near Gig Harbor, and a radio station, KGDN.

The organization later added a second summer camp, Island Lake, and expanded to four total radio stations.

In 2019, the new leader of CRISTA, Jacinta Tegman, implemented what was seen as an anti-gay mandate that required employees to disavow same-sex relationships, both at work and in their personal lives; several teachers quit as a result.

On the CRISTA campus. The clock in the foreground says "Time to Pray". The Mike Martin Administration Building is in the background and part of King's High School at left. Both buildings were designed by Daniel R. Huntington, and built 1913–1914 as part of the Firland Tuberculosis Hospital.
King's High School