Highland Presbyterian Church

712 E Lamar Alexander Pkway, Maryville, TN 37804

Click on Church Image ABOVE for the Aug 9 bulletin

Join Matthew in Fellowship on Sundays and Mondays in August at the Pavilion. Click above to reserve your spot.

Rev. Matthew Benz-Whittington taking a walk of the grounds

Our Bounty Garden is blooming thanks to the Schenk and Kemp families. The produce is currently going to the Community Food Connection

HIGHLAND IN THE NEWS - click and read
2020 Highland calls Matthew Benz-Whittington as new Pastor
2020 Highland to call next permanent pastor at drive-in meeting
2020 Highland Easter Message
2020 Highland Urges to "Pass the Peace"
2019 Dwyn Mounger's Christmas Story Book and Signing
2019 Highland Presbyterian to mark Day of Pentecost
2019 YEStudio sets Summer workshops at Highland
2018 Alternative Christmas Market
Storytellers at Highland
Faith Without Borders
Quilting ministry pieces lives together.

Please join us on our Facebook page at 10:30am, Sunday, Aug 9 for a live sermon...

Click image above to watch the replay of the Aug 2 Service

Hold your calendar for Aug. 15 at 10am when Rev. Matthew will be Examined and Received by the Presbytery of East Tennessee via Zoom. Please let Matthew know if you wish to attend.

Acolyte in Action. Want to have your child learn to be one?

Our youngest Highlander, Abigaile Regina and her brother Robert.

Thanks to the Schenks for our green gardens.

Every Sunday morning, we worship at 10:30.
On Sunday mornings, worship is about God's good news of love and mercy, and our calling to serve God, to love our neighbors and ourselves. We have Sunday School for children and a a nursery for our little ones.

Not just on Sundays, but everyday... we seek to:
Do justice. Share kindness. Walk humbly together with God!

What's been happening at Highland in 2020?

We have a Wednesday night study on world religions, exploring similarities, differences, and common ground.
High school youth meet weekly, lead worship, explore faith, do mission trips and attend the Montreat Youth Conference.
Jr. Youth meet for all kinds of creative activities, outdoor events, Bible study, and community service projects.
Kids stay for the first half of worship, which is interactive and includes a children's message from the pastor, and then they go enjoy a child-centered Sunday School.
Quilters meet Tuesday mornings, making gifts of love.
Highland goes outdoors, hiking in the Smokies with all ages!
Highland co-sponsors a refugee family with Bridge Refugee Services.
We host Girl Scouts, youth art classes, a basket-making group, OA, and a late-night college group.
In recent years, we built a new accessibility entrance and a new wheelchair ramp. We welcome people with all kinds of abilities.
We support The Gate - Gateway to Independence, a wonderful daytime program for young adults with disabilities.
On Palm Sunday, we walk with llamas, wave palms, and ring bells to welcome the Prince of Peace into our life and faith.
Highland members are active in multiple forms of civic engagement, community service, and environmental care. Many participate in the Women's March, local peace walks, activities for racial unity, voter registration, protecting and preserving our environment, welcoming immigrants, supporting refugees, and volunteering with programs that serve neighbors in need.

Highland in CUBA, every year since 2008: For nine years, Highland members have traveled to Cuba for peacemaking and relational ministries in partnership with friends at Iglesia Presbiteriana-Reformada en Taguasco. Read more.

Our Mission at Highland

Highland Presbyterian Church seeks to be a diverse and inclusive Christian Community as we embody the love and forgiveness of Jesus by serving the Community and the World, drawing people to Christ.

Highland Presbyterian Church
721 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway (Hwy. 321)
Maryville, Tennessee 37804

Highland is located at the intersection of Hwy. 321 and Washington Street,
between Maryville College and Blount Memorial Hospital,
on the road to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Office phone M-W-F mornings: (865) 982-9272
Email: office@highlandpresby.org
Church Secretary: Lindsay Rogers
Pastor: Rev. Matthew Benz-Whittington
Instagram: HighlandPresbyChurch
Webmaster: Whitney Erickson