About

Our Mission

Making disciples and planting churches.

We do this by

Beyond a Building

Mars Hill Church is a group of people who Jesus has saved and sent to be missionaries. We come together as one giant family to worship Jesus in many locations at many times. Each week, you can expect singing, biblical preaching, and prayer.

Multisite

We meet in multiple locations at multiple times on Sundays. Using satellite and internet technology we have most sermons broadcast to our different locations, other Sundays campus pastors will preach live at every campus. This method of meeting allows the people Mars Hill to grow in numbers and faith while staying in their own communities, being missionaries for Jesus there.

Local Roots, Global Reach

Over 10,000 people come each week to the eight Mars Hill campuses and locations in the greater Seattle area and one in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The sermon is preached live at the main Ballard campus, and then rebroadcast the following weeks at the other eight locations. Special events such as the Good Friday, Easter, and Christmas Eve services are broadcast live to all the campuses via live streaming. Additionally, we utilize live-streaming on Good Friday, Easter, and for special events like John Piper or DA Carson’s visitations, to share the events with tens of thousands of people around the world.

We also publish all our sermons and other biblical teaching materials online and through podcasts. For every person who hears a sermon at a Mars Hill campus, an estimated eight sermons are downloaded each week. In 2009, over 4.5 million sermons were downloaded from our website.

Campuses


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Community Groups

In between Sundays, a few thousand people meet by the dozen in homes, dorms, and apartments to discuss the sermon, read the Bible, pray for each other, have fellowship, relationship, accountability, and encourage each other in Christ. These Community Groups are the primary vehicle for discipleship and where each of us has the opportunity to participate in the mission of Mars Hill. As outposts for the gospel, our groups actively participate in the life of the city, blessing their neighbors and sharing the gospel.

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