Words of Grace Blog
🗓️ Trash and Treasures Sale Coming Saturday, May 3
The Annual Trash and Treasures Sale returns to Mars Hill on Saturday, May 3. Here’s how you can support the sale and the unique way we love and serve our community.
✝️ Ash Wednesday 2025: Two Opportunities to Worship
Whether in North Asheville or Mars Hill, there are two opportunities to worship this Ash Wednesday.
📖 Lenten Book Study: Tuesdays Beginning March 4
Our Lenten Book Study of Jesus and Nonviolence - A Third Way begins March 4 at 11 am or 6 pm.
🥣 Third Annual Black History Month Fundraiser to Benefit Historic Mount Olive Cemetery on Feb. 18
The Third Annual Black History Month Fundraiser to benefit the Historic Mount Olive Cemetery will take place on February 18.
🕯️Mars Hill to Honor the Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King with Breakfast, Hike and Unity Singing
With a community breakfast, hike and unity singing, our community plans to honor and remember the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
❤️🩹 Blue Christmas Service - When Seasons May Not Feel As Bright: December 21 at 5 pm
Our Blue Christmas coincides with the Winter Solstice as well as the traditional feast day for Saint Thomas the Apostle, making some connections between Thomas's struggle to believe the tale of Jesus' resurrection, the long nights just before Christmas, and the struggle with darkness and grief faced by those living with loss.
💫 Advent Book Study - Coming this December
Join us Mondays in December for our online Advent Book Study.
🦃 Thanksgiving Dinner with Mars Hill University Students
We are rescheduling the third Sunday fellowship meal to the evening of November 17 when we will hosta special Thanksgiving dinner with Mars Hill University students.
🏳️🌈 First-of-its-Kind Blue Ridge Pride Worship to be Celebrated in Asheville on Sept. 22 🏳️⚧️
Following Blue Ridge Pride Week and the Blue Ridge Pride Festival, area Reconciling Ministries will host a Pride Worship on September 22 at Central United Methodist Church in Downtown Asheville.