Grace holds Sunday Worship Services at 10:30 a.m. Please Join Us!
— Church Office Hours —
Mondays: Closed
Tuesdays: 9:30-4:00
Wednesdays: 9:30-4:00
Thursdays: 9:30-1:30
Fridays: 9:30-1:30
— Grace’s Mission Statement —
“ Grace Church exists as a diverse community of the Body of Christ,
to serve Jesus Christ our Lord.
Our mission is to nurture and develop
each individual to reach out and share God’s love.”
— Grace’s Vision Statement —
“At Grace Church, we seek to live as a community of Christians,
where the empowering presence of the living God
may be encountered in our welcome to all,
in our love and service to each other
and in reaching out to share God’s love in the world.”
We invite you to make Grace your spiritual home.
Together we can grow in spirit and service.
Our worship services and Christian formation meetings are held
at the corner of Merrimon Avenue and Ottari Street in North Asheville . . .
Our ministry is in the World.
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Upcoming Dates for Your Calendar:
This month’s PubSing! happens this Sunday, December 14.
We will meet at the Cork & Keg in Downtown Asheville.
Singing will start around 3:00 p.m. and go until 5:00. Feel free to bring an instrument or your voice and join in. At this session we plan to add some Christmas carols to our typical mix of Gospel, Inspirational and Americana music. For more information: montywooten@
Get Your Fresh Green Christmas Trees and Wreaths at Grace! Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, now through December 21, we are hosting a Christmas tree sale on the front lawn to benefit Consider Haiti. Similar to our Pumpkin Patch, beautiful fresh trees and wreaths will be sold by our friends at C&J Christmas Trees in Boone, NC, and a portion of every sale will be donated to Consider Haiti’s work. Hours are 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m. Sundays. Be sure to tell everyone you know!
The Advent-in-a-Bag project continues. With our Advent-in-a-Bag food donations, ABCCM can help stressed families and individuals with the food they need for surviving these cold days and frigid nights. Many thanks to all who have been bringing filled bags and boxes to the Grace lobby! And please, if you haven’t already picked up a bag, there are still plenty and we urge you to grab one. Let the food items listed on the enclosed Advent Calendar guide you as you buy groceries for your own household. If your Advent Bag is already full, please use whatever containers are close at hand, such as grocery sacks, boxes and plastic bins to bring your food donations to the Grace lobby. And of course, once you’ve filled one, maybe you’ll consider filling another!
Our deadline for returning Angel Tree gifts to the church is this Sunday, December 14, but… if you still need just a little more time, or if you want to grab one of the remaining angel tags from the tree and make a few last-minute purchases, that’s ok. Just let Cheryl Deyton know what your plans are and she can arrange for your gift donations to get into the right hands in time for Christmas.
For foster families whose budgets are always tight, but especially stretched during the holidays, your generosity is a blessing. Thank you!
Monday morning Bible Study meets via ZOOM at 10:30 a.m.
ZOOM link and other details are available by clicking here.
(Note: Beginning Monday, July 7,
Monday Morning Bible Study will be taking a summer hiatus.
Classes will resume August 18.)
Grace’s Taizé styled service is weekly on Tuesday evenings at 6pm.
Please join us for a quiet respite from the busy-ness of our world.
Click here for more information about Taizé.
Sunday Holy Eucharist Services at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday In-Person Services are now open to all (Masks are optional). Services will also be LiveStreamed, accessible through the Grace Church Asheville YouTube Channel, found HERE. Access the service bulletins through links at the top of our home page, or in the description of each service.
Safe Shelter
Safe Shelter is a collaboration between Trinity United Methodist Church, Grace Covenant Presbyterian, Grace Episcopal Church and Counterflow. We provide twenty beds for our community’s unsheltered on a nightly basis. Ten of these beds are reserved for intact families, meaning that families with children no longer need to choose between staying together or accessing shelter.
Please consider volunteering or donating a meal at Safe Shelter. We would love for you to join us for a family-style dinner any day of the week.
Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday, 2:00 p.m.-8:00 a.m. with dinner served at 5:30 p.m.,
and Saturday/Sunday, 2:00 p.m.-8:00 a.m. with dinner served at 6:30 p.m.
Drop in Hours: – Monday-Friday, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
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“We are told by the rulers of our day that the rich shall be first; that compassion is a weakness; that we should regard the migrants and strangers among us with fear and contempt. But I ask us all to see that our true citizenship is in God’s kingdom, where the meek shall inherit the earth, the merciful shall receive mercy, and the captives shall go free.”
— Archbishop Sean Rowe
“Welcoming the stranger is not a political act—it’s a sacred obligation. When immigrants walk through our church doors, they’re not entering as outsiders; they are stepping into the heart of our faith, where their dignity and stories are embraced as reflections of God’s love.”
— Julia Ayala Harris, president of The Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies.
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Third Sunday of Advent, December 14, 2025 – Rev. Tim McRee
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