Courageous Inclusion
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Sing for Unity
On the UN International World Day of Peace, September 21, 2025, at 2 PM our own local time, we invite you to join us in song, and to be part of a musical movement. Together we will raise our voices to promote unity, community and peace across the globe. Join voices from every corner of…
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College Care Packages 2025
As students come to the end of their first semester, a little reminder that they are remembered and loved can mean a lot! Eve Circle, a Brecksville United Women in Faith Circle, is organizing a College Care Package Project for fall 2025 to share some love! One of the organizers, Judy McCrodden, reports, “In November,…
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Lifelong Learning for Faith and Justice
Fall 2025: The United Methodist General Council On Religion and Race offers resources to support our anti-racism and intercultural leadership journey. Lifelong learning takes intention. Whether you’re preparing for small group study or personal reflection, here are some recommended resources that invite you deeper into faith and justice – online and at your own pace.…
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Spiritual Trail Guide Fall/Winter 2025
You are gifted. Our Spiritual Trail Guide, updated for the Fall and Winter seasons of 2025, is a tool to help you discover your gifts, and explore ways those gifts can grow through Brecksville United Methodist Church. In the pages of this guide, youāll find a link to a Spiritual Gifts Inventory, and information on…
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True & Chosen Name: A Service of Naming
Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 6 pm at Brecksville United Methodist Church Before God named him Abraham, he was called Abram, and before God called her Sarah, she was known as Sarai. Jesus recognized gifts in his follower Simon that Simon himself could not see, and Jesus renamed him Peter, to signify the man Jesus…
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More Than a Name Tag
You might think a church name tag is just a small Sunday detail, but itās actually a quiet, powerful form of welcome and inclusion. Wearing your name tag says, āI see you. Iām open to connection. You belong here, too.ā For a newcomer, a name can be the first doorway to feeling at home. It…
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Wellness and Wellbeing
May 2025 Leadership Board Report Each month in our leadership board meeting we start by spending the first 20 minutes going over a devotional. We do this to help prepare our hearts and minds to be in the right zone to discuss the business of the church. This past meeting we discussed the word wellness,…
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If Not Us, Then Who
April 2025 Leadership Board Report About a year ago I had a conversation with Pastor Heidi. It went something like āHey, Iām a little concerned about backlash if we get too involved in advocacy for social justice issues.ā My concerns were not because I personally had issues supporting equity and fairness. But rather, could we…
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The Reinstatement of Ordination Service
Sunday, July 6 at 6 pm – First United Methodist Church, Cuyahoga Falls In 2024, after more than a half century of debate and defiance over the place of LGBTQ people in the denomination, General Conference delegates ā by sizable majorities ā voted to end decades-old bans on the ordination of āself-avowed practicingā gay clergy…