Christian blogger Tim Challies recently interviewed Pastor Scott Thomas about the history of Acts 29, what it does, and how working with Pastor Mark has influenced him. Acts 29 has planted nearly 300 churches and trained thousands of pastors around the globe. If you are a man who feels a call to church planting or [...]

A Mars Hill Church community group made local news recently when they installed a new mural at a neighborhood community center. This is just one of the ways that we live for Jesus as a city within a city; knowing culture, loving people, and seeing lives transformed to live for Jesus.
Are you in a community [...]

I was recently asked in an interview with the Seattle Times what we do for the community. It got me thinking about our church’s approach to mercy ministry.
Our methods range from collective to fully distributed. To illustrate what I mean, here are some examples from the whole gamut:
Collective Efforts
Sending resources and support to Vision [...]

On top of fitting over 500 people into the Lobo Theater for their launch this past Sunday, Pastor Dave Bruskas and the Albuquerque campus were featured across three local network affiliates – ABC, NBC, & FOX – that night. In addition to the campus opening, what was the story of note? It was a story [...]

Mars Hill Church, one of our members, Andrew H. McConnell, was killed this past week while serving in Afghanistan.  Andrew and his wife Sarah were married this past December and Sarah is five months pregnant.  We ask that, as a community, Mars Hill Church honor Andrew by rallying around his wife and unborn child.  We [...]

Since last spring, one of the community groups at our West Seattle campus has been visiting the Elizabeth House, a local apartment complex for low income senior citizens.
Once a month, the group fires up the barbecue for hamburgers and hot dogs, followed by games and crafts. The project is a part of Mars Hill [...]

Mars Hill members are on the move using MicroMission funds and some good old fashioned elbow grease to love and serve the city. Here are the stories from the past month:

Bagging trash at the Burien Clean Sweep
Traffic circle restoration in Rainier Valley
Landscaping at the Phinney Neighborhood Center park

If you’re interested in organizing a MicroMission project [...]

A Queen Anne community group shared the joy of Easter with nearby low-income families when they delivered 35 boxes of groceries to a Lake City apartment complex earlier this month.
 
The families had signed up for groceries with Queen Anne-based CityTeam Ministries, a Christian organization already at work in the apartment community. Thanks to four full [...]

Vision Nationals (Visag, India) began Master’s School in 1999 to provide a first-rate K–12 education for the orphans living in the ministry’s companion program, Master’s Home.
Master’s School has done so well in the past decade that Vision Nationals was asked to open the school to the public. Well, they did, expecting an additional 50 kids [...]

Pastor Scott Thomas writes on the Acts 29 blog:
I walked out of the Downtown campus…and across the street to speak to a homeless man, Marco…I told him I was one of the pastors at the church across the street and asked him how we could help him. He said, “Everything I have is in this [...]