Grace Mountainside Episcopal Church

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Grace Mountainside Church is located in the small, rural town of Robbinsville
in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina just south of the Smoky Mountain National Park. Our scenic beauty, mild climate and small population attract some to spend summers or retire here.

The Lutheran & Episcopal Fellowship was established to serve Lutherans and Episcopalians who summered or lived in Graham County. Even though we are identified as Grace Episcopal Church and Mountainside Lutheran Church, we are one Christian congregation, not two.

We celebrate Holy Communion each Sunday at 11:00am. We use Holy Communion, Setting Two, with sung responses, psalm and hymns from the new Evangelical Lutheran Worship on most second and fourth Sundays. We use The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two with sung responses and psalm from The Book of Common Prayer, 1979 and sing hymns from The Hymnal 1982 on most first and third Sundays. We are blessed with a liturgical richness few congregations, large or small, may enjoy.

Episcopalians participate fully on "Lutheran" Sundays and Lutherans participate fully on "Episcopal" Sundays. All baptised Christians are invited to share with us and receive Holy Communion. Episcopalians do not sit on one side of the aisle and Lutherans on the other. In fact, if you asked members to identify who is Lutheran and who is Episcopalian at Grace Mountainside Church, most would not know. We've been worshipping together like this since 1982, while the Lutheran-Episcopal dialogue was still in its youth.

MISSION STATEMENT: Grace Mountainside Church is one congregation related to both the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

We have come together, not to mingle or confuse our traditions but to express our community in our Lord Jesus Christ and to be more effective in the mission of His Church in Robbinsville, Graham County, North Carolina and around the world.