LGBTQ+ Ministries
🌈 Located adjacent to Mars Hill University and minutes from downtown Weaverville and Asheville, Mars Hill United Methodist Church is a Reconciling Ministries Network congregation that welcomes and celebrates every child of God without exception. 🏳️🌈
Mars Hill United Methodist Church Welcomes Every Child of God Without Exception.
At Mars Hill United Methodist Church, we celebrate God’s gift of diversity and value the wholeness made possible in a community equally shared and shepherded by all. We welcome and affirm people of every gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation, who are also of every age, race, ethnicity, physical and mental ability, level of education, and family structure, and of every economic, immigration, marital, and social status, and so much more. We acknowledge that we live in a world of profound social, economic, and political inequities. As followers of Jesus, we commit ourselves to the pursuit of justice and pledge to stand in solidarity with all who are marginalized and oppressed.
What Does It Mean to Be Reconciling?
Reconciling ministries are churches, Sunday school classes, youth groups, regional groups, campus ministries, colleges, and others who have made the Reconciling commitment to intersectional LGBTQI justice.
That means that however, God made you, you are beloved and celebrated in these ministries. To date, there are nearly 1,400 Reconciling ministries with approximately 44,000 Reconciling United Methodists.
Mars Hill UMC on WLOS News 13
The signs outside Mars Hill United Methodists Church makes the intentions of the rural church clear. It says ‘Break the rules, love everyone’,”
“To me, that's the statement, that's what we're here about, loving everyone,” Mars Hill United Methodist Church Pastor Lisa Hartzog said.
“Mars Hill United Methodist Church proved to be a uniquely inviting congregation. ”
