Jubilee Community

Jubilee Community Jubilee! is a inclusive faith community grounded in creation-centered spirituality that honors all spiritual traditions, all peoples & Earth.

In-person and livestreamed Sunday Celebrations are held at 10:30am at 60 State St., Asheville, NC. Everyone from everywhere on any spiritual path is invited to our Sunday Celebrations every Sunday morning at 10:30am. They take place in person at Rainbow Community School Auditorium, 60 State Street, Asheville, NC 28806 and are live streamed on Facebook and YouTube. You can get details at https://ju

bileecommunity.org/join-us-this-sunday/

Our mailing address is PO Box 1570, Asheville, NC 28802

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Strongly committed to social and environmental justice, we join together to create a compassionate, just and sustainable world. We are grounded in Creation Spirituality and its tenet of Original Blessing, and our inclusive Sunday celebrations joyfully express the divine mystery through music, creativity and inspiring messages. OUR VISION

Jubilee! envisions an equitable, sustainable world where all life thrives and is renewed in sacred love, compassion and joy. OUR MISSION

As a compassionate and inclusive spiritual community, Jubilee! celebrates the divine mystery in all of creation and calls each of us toward a heart-centered, compassionate, equitable and sustainable way of living and being. OUR VALUES

- Reverence for all creation
- Original blessing (rather than original sin
- Compassionate engagement with and advocacy for all life
- Generous collaboration to serve the greater good of our community and the earth
- Laughter, music, creativity and hope
- Welcoming everyone to our Sunday celebrations
- Creating safe space for all to thrive physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually
- Receiving the creative gifts and wisdom of the whole community
- Nurturing the growth and ongoing transformation of all adults and children
- Celebrations and gatherings that are participatory, inspirational and creatively energizing
- Rituals to honor important transitions and moments in our lives, community and cosmos
- Keeping the main thing the main thing

OUR AFFIRMATIONS

- We believe all creation reveals and expresses God
- We hold that diversity of faith enriches our community
- We love and respect all life with all our hearts, minds, bodies and spirits
- We are originally blessed by the Creator and called to co-create blessing in this world
- We accept the wisdom and teachings of all religious traditions
- We know that God continually calls us to be who we are created to be
- We live our faith through compassion, forgiveness and justice
- We practice mutual support, outreach giving and personal service as spiritual disciplines
- We accept that living faith must grow and change

08/30/2026

Join our Celebration August 30, 2026, "Presence in Uncertainity", with guest speaker, Jessica Ayala,
author, ceremonialist, and program director at Medicine Wheel Way.

The August 30th Sunday Celebration will also include:
~ Lin Orndorf, Welcome
~ Sage Seeley, Calling the Sacred Directions
~ Sally Carter, Jubilee! in Action
~ Ron Katz, Gift of Voting
~ Patricia Antolino, Meditation & Prayer Time
~ Rene Cline, Gift of Artist's Way
~ Michele Bernhardt, Reading / Call & Response
~ Kathy Busse and Lin Orndorf, Gratitude Ritual
~ Ryan Crabtree and the World Beat Band featuring Paula Hanke with Susie Davis

Do you remember the July 25, 2021 Sunday Celebration when we celebrated Dolly Parton? The theme was "Dancing with Dolly"...
08/27/2026

Do you remember the July 25, 2021 Sunday Celebration when we celebrated Dolly Parton? The theme was "Dancing with Dolly" featuring Gaby Michel as our guest speaker telling the story about how she met Dolly when she was 13 years old, and developed a life long friendship with her. The World Beat Band and Paula Hanke did "Wildflowers," Delia Bailey performed "Light of Clear Blue Morning," and Gaby sang the song she wrote -- "What Would Dolly Do?" -- during her reflection. You can watch it here now... https://youtu.be/U_V_bWoP0UY. Rest in peace, dear Dolly!

"Dancing with Dolly" July 25, 2021 Sunday Celebration led by Gaby M...

08/23/2026

Join our Celebration August 23, 2026, "Honoring Resilience", with guest speaker, Candace Chellew,
author, song writer, spiritual director and Jubilee!-ordained minister.

The August 23rd Sunday Celebration will also include:
~ Julia Gaunt, Welcome
~ Moksha Kolman, Calling the Sacred Directions
~ Steve Hendricks, Jubilee! in Action
~ Patricia Antolino, Gift of Prose
~ Julie Dean, Meditation & Prayer Time
~ Mary Lou Kemph with Cathy Cleary, Gift of Outreach
~ Kathy Busse and Steve Hendricks, Gratitude Ritual
~ Ryan Crabtree and the World Beat Band featuring Paula Hanke with Susie Davis

08/16/2026

Join our Celebration August 16, 2026, "Union with the Sacred", with guest speaker, Forrest Rivers,
teacher, author and inspirational speaker

The August 16th Sunday Celebration will also include:
~ Michele Bernhardt, Welcome
~ Patricia Antolino, Calling the Sacred Directions
~ Judy Van Horne, Jubilee! in Action
~ Randee Goodstadt, Gift of Poetry
~ Michael Smith, Meditation & Prayer Time
~ Forrest Rivers & Angela Divine, Gift of Song
~ Kathy Busse and John Mattox, Gratitude Ritual
~ Ryan Crabtree and the World Beat Band featuring Paula Hanke with Susie Davis

08/09/2026

Join our Celebration August 9, 2026, "Reverence for the Mystery", with guest speaker, Vicki Garlock,
teacher, author and Jubilee!-ordained minister of education.

The August 9th Sunday Celebration will also include:
~ Elizabeth Likis, Welcome
~ Julia Gaunt, Calling the Sacred Directions
~ Laura Loercher, Jubilee! in Action
~ Anne Wray, Gift of Dance
~ Patricia Antolino, Meditation & Prayer Time
~ Kathy Busse with Marisha MacMorran & Lacy Hornbeck of Food Connection, Gift of Outreach
~ Kathy Busse and Sandy Carson, Gratitude Ritual
~ Ryan Crabtree and the World Beat Band featuring Paula Hanke with Susie Davis

08/02/2026

Join our Celebration July 26, 2026, "Love's Fullness", with guest speaker, Laura Collins, spiritual doula and docent to the Divine.

The July 26th Sunday Celebration will also include:
~ Patricia Antolino, Welcome
~ Araya Hansen, Calling the Sacred Directions
~ Michele Bernhardt, Jubilee! in Action
~ Stephanie Escher, Gift of Jubilee! Onward
~ Paula Hanke, Meditation & Prayer Time
~ Carol Greenspan, Gift of Outreach
~ Kathy Busse and Steve Hendricks, Gratitude Ritual
~ Ryan Crabtree and the World Beat Band featuring Paula Hanke with Susie Davis

07/19/2026

Join our Celebration July 19, 2026, "Courage to Lead", with guest speaker, Cathryn the Grateful, Jubilee!-ordained minister of movement.

The July 19th Sunday Celebration will also include:
~ Randee Goodstadt, Welcome
~ Patricia Antolino, Calling the Sacred Directions
~ Gretchen Henn, Jubilee! in Action
~ Sue Ford, Gift of Song
~ Julia Gaunt, Meditation & Prayer Time
~ Mollie Milner, A Gift from Mother Earth
~ Kathy Busse and Cathryn the Grateful, Gratitude Ritual
~ Ryan Crabtree and the World Beat Band featuring Paula Hanke with Susie Davis

Let Compassion Gently BloomPlant seeds of compassionas one scatters wildflowersinto the waiting wind,not asking where th...
07/17/2026

Let Compassion Gently Bloom

Plant seeds of compassion
as one scatters wildflowers
into the waiting wind,

not asking where they will land,
not measuring what will bloom,
only trusting
the quiet wisdom of the earth.

A gentle word,
an open hand,
a listening heart,

each a seed
finding its own season.

What seems small today
may one day become
a meadow of kindness,
where weary souls pause,

where hope returns,
where beauty grows.

So walk softly.

Scatter compassion
into every life you touch,

and let it spread
like wildflowers,

free, abundant, carried gently upon the wind.

~ 'Let Compassion Gently Bloom' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art Unknown See less

07/12/2026

Join our Celebration July 12, 2026, "Simple Joys", with guest speaker, Matt Farris, a Unitarian Universalist minister in training; former university professor who taught philosophy, religious studies, and theology; and soon will be a chaplaincy resident at a regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

The July 12th Sunday Celebration also includes:
~ Abby Gilad, Welcome
~ Moksha Kolman, Calling the Sacred Directions
~ Laura Loercher, Jubilee! in Action
~ Brotherhug Barlow, Gift of Simplicity
~ Patricia Antolino, Meditation & Prayer Time
~ Kathy Busse with Anita Case of WNC Community Health Services, Gift of Outreach
~ Kathy Busse and Sage Seeley, Gratitude Ritual
~ Ryan Crabtree and the World Beat Band featuring Paula Hanke with Susie Davis

Address

60 State Street
Asheville, NC
28803

Opening Hours

10:30am - 12pm

Telephone

+18282525335

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