Melanie Smith
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Monthly Donation Drives
Each month, the Missions & Community Engagement Team selects an organization to support with a donation drive. This is an opportunity to learn more about the good work being done in our communities, and to support that good work by donating one of the most needed items of use to the people being served that…
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Habitat for Humanity Faith Build 2025
Our Work Days are Thursday June 26, 2025 and Saturday September 20, 2025 Since 2015, Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity’s Faith Build program has brought faith groups together to help uplift the work of affordable housing. Each congregation provides prayer, funding, and volunteer power to help build a home and revitalize a neighborhood. This year marks the…
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Healing Spiritual Harm
At Brecksville United Methodist Church, we strive to create space to grow with God and one another. Part of that work is preventing, responding to and working to repair spiritual trauma. What is spiritual trauma? Spiritual harm can happen in religious spaces. We are constantly on a journey of understanding what harm is, as it…
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Celebrating 11 Years as a Reconciling Congregation
A Reconciling Congregation within the United Methodist Church isĀ a local church that publicly welcomes and affirms all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, to full participation in its life and ministry.Ā Reconciling Congregations are committed to creating a safe and inclusive space for all God’s children and actively work for full equality for LGBTQ+…
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Pride Season Volunteer Opportunities
June Is Pride Month – an opportunity to raise awareness about LGBTQ+ issues and to advocate for equality and inclusion. Here are some opportunities for 2025Ā Pastor Heidiās current sermon series is about getting off your donkey. Do you need some ideas? Here are some fun and worthwhile opportunities: Pride in the CLE 1. Have…
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Food Justice
We seek to embrace a food economy based on the values of stewardship, sustainability and justice. Learn more:
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Home Days Booth
Itās a joyful gathering of the whole community, right outside the church doors! We have reserved our booth and will be selling Brecksville UMC Cookbooks and Ice Cream Floats, to help raise money to pay for our parking lot repairs. And, even more importantly, weāll have the opportunity to listen to our community and tell…
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Donation Drive for B. Riley House
B. Riley House is an LGBTQ+ Drug and Alcohol Treatment facility in Cleveland providing temporary, safe, affirming, recovery-oriented living space. They offer alcohol and drug treatment services, mental health assessment and treatment and psychotherapy to help each individual along their journey to long-term recovery from substance abuse challenges.ā Our June Donation Drive will help support…
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Sensory Inclusion
Brecksville United Methodist Church is a Certified Sensory Inclusive Facility Since 2017, Brecksville United Methodist Church has partnered with KultureCityĀ® to earn Sensory Inclusiveā¢ Certified status, which helps us live into our mission of creating safe spaces for everyone to grow with God and one another! This lifelong learning enhances our ability to assist and…
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Grief Comes in Waves
Each time someone in our community passes, it leaves a void. When that person is on staff, and has been for the better part of a decade, Iām discovering that void is much larger. Not because Dana was āmore important,ā but simply because she was someone whose fingerprints are all around our church. She loved…