Celebrate the Season of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love

Experience the light of Christ & the warmth of community — this Christmas and always.

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Sunday Worship @ 9:45 am in Mars Hill or Online
Sunday School @ 11 am in Mars Hill or Online

Celebrate Advent + Christmas with Mars Hill United Methodist Church

Discover joy, hope, peace and love this season — whether you worship with us in person or online, there’s a place for you here.


This Advent and Christmas season, we warmly invite you to join us online or in-person in Mars Hill, N.C. this season. No matter who you are or where you come from, you are welcome, affirmed, and celebrated here — just as you are. No exceptions. Because God’s love makes room for everyone — at Christmas and always. Join us online or in person this Advent and Christmas season as we prepare our hearts, our community, and our world for the coming of Christ. Together we’ll celebrate a love that shines beyond the season — a love that brings light to every day.

Our 2025 Advent & Christmas Calendar
Celebrate the Season in Madison County

  • Holiday Decorating | Saturday, November 29, 2025

    Advent & Christmas Decorating + Soup Luncheon @ TBA

    To prepare our space in order to prepare our hearts, we will host our annual decorating Saturday on November 29

    In addition to decorating, we will host our annual Soup feast so plan to bring a soup or side to share.

  • First Sunday of Advent | Sunday, November 30, 2025

    Worship @ 9:45 am
    Sunday School @ 11 am

    Join us in-person or online November 30 during our 9:45 am worship to kick off the Advent season with an abbreviated Hanging of the Greens service. The service begins our four-Sunday Advent journey as we stir up our hearts during this holy season of joy, anticipating the coming of Christ among us. In our first Sunday of the month tradition, this service will include the celebration of Holy Communion. Our table is open to ALL.

  • Christmas Bazaar | Saturday December 6, 2025

    9 am until 3 pm

    On Saturday, December 6, we will host our annual Christmas Bazaar and Holiday Market. The downtown Mars Hill event will feature local artisans and baked goods.

    Funds raised will support missions.

  • Second Sunday of Advent | Sunday, December 7, 2025

    Worship @ 9:45 am
    Sunday School @ 11 am

    Join us us in-person or online December 8 at 9:45 am am as we continue our four-Sunday journey through the season of Advent.

  • Third Sunday of Advent | Sunday, December 14, 2025

    Worship @ 9:45 am
    Sunday School @ 11 am

    Join us us in-person or online December on December 14 at 9:45 am am as we continue our four-Sunday journey through Advent with a special service of Lesson & Carols The Third Sunday of Advent acknowledges our longing and expectation of the coming of Emmanuel among us.

  • Fourth Sunday of Advent | Sunday, December 21, 2025

    Worship @ 9:45 am
    Sunday School @ 11 am

    Join us us in-person or online on December 21 at 9:45 am am as we continue our four-Sunday journey through Advent with a special prelude from our handbell choir. The Fourth and final Sunday of Advent - what better place to experience and celebrate the coming of light among us?

  • Liturgy of the Longest Night | Sunday, December 21, 2025

    Liturgy of the Longest (Blue Christmas Service)
    December 21 @ 5 pm

    Our Liturgy of the Longest Night (Blue Christmas Service) 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.

  • Christmas Eve | Wednesday, December 24, 2025

    Candlelight Christmas Eve Communion @ 5 pm

    Join us on December 24 at 5 pm for Candlelight Christmas Eve Communion.

  • First Sunday after Christmas | Sunday, December 28, 2025

    Worship @ 9:45 am
    Sunday School @ 11 am

    It’s still Christmas. Spend the last Sunday of 2025 hearing your favorite Christmas stories and singing your favorite Christmas carols.

    ”There's a song in the air!
    There's a star in the sky!
    There's a mother's deep prayer
    and a baby's low cry!
    And the star rains its fire
    while the beautiful sing,
    for the manger of Bethlehem
    cradles a King!”

  • Epiphany Sunday | Sunday, January 4, 2026

    Worship @ 9:45 am
    Sunday School @ 11 am

    It’s the last Sunday of our Christmastide or Christmas season worship and celebration - today, tree lights still glisten. Join us as we celebrate the Epiphany and Baptism of our Lord. This service will feature the celebration of Holy Communion.

    “This star drew nigh to the northwest
    O'er Bethlehem it took it's rest
    And there it did both Pause and stay
    Right o'er the place where Jesus lay
    Noel Noel Noel Noel
    Born is the King of Israel!”

Make Room to Love & Serve Others

Christmas isn’t just something we celebrate. It’s something we live. Throughout Advent, we invite you to make room in your hearts and lives for others through acts of service and compassion.

The Giving Tree

Share the warmth of the season by making seasons bright for our WNC friends and neighbors. In previous years, this tree has traditionally been decorated with hats, scarves and mittens, and this year, we’re identifying ways to best support our friends and neighbors across our community. We welcome you to take an envelope and include your contribution to the ministry.

Support Our Little Free Food Pantry

In 2022, Mars Hill’s first Little Free Food Pantry was dedicated by area Girl Scouts and Mars Hill United Methodist Church.

The Little Free Food Pantry is available 24 hours a day to whoever needs it. The rule is: “Take what you need; give what you can.”

A Festival of Carols
Enjoy Sounds of the Season from Mars Hill


We invite you to enjoy the sounds of Advent and Christmas from Mars Hill United Methodist Church from Christmastide 2020. We welcome you to hear enjoy the sights and sounds of the season online or in-person on Sundays at 9:45 am.

Plan Your Visit

You’ll find a warm welcome at Mars Hill United Methodist Church whether it’s your first visit or your hundredth.

Come as you are. Bring your family, your questions, and your hopes for the season.

There’s a place for you here.

 
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A Prayer for the Advent Season

The Advent season is a time of preparation and expectation for the coming of Jesus Christ. The below narrated video meditation offers individuals and families moment to take time this season to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus and look forward to the second coming of Christ among us.

Oh Immanuel, God with us, truly in this Advent season we celebrate that you are not hidden in some faraway cloud, but you chose to be with us in the blur and mystery of our lives. In the midst of lists and rush, you are with us as a song that echoes in our minds, as the light of a candle, as a card from a friend. They are signs of your presence. We turn to you this season and pray that you would birth joy and healing, blessing and hope in us. Let something wonderful begin in us — something surprising and holy. May your hand be upon us. Let your love fill us. Let your joy overwhelm us. Let our longing for you be met on a coming holy night. Immanuel with us once again. Amen.

— an Advent Devotion by the Rev. Jerry Chism

Let’s Stay Connected

Keep up with Advent and Christmas events, volunteer opportunities and special services by subscribing to our weekly newsletter or following us on social media.

Together we’ll continue to share the hope, peace, joy, and love of Christ in this season and every season.

God’s Love makes room for everyone -

at Christmas and always