Determined Service
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Year End Giving
Some Tax-Smart Reminders for 2025 Our church has been richly blessed this year — by your prayers, presence, service, witness, and gifts. Every gift has helped our church live out our mission — creating safe space to grow with God and one another. Your giving makes ministry possible, from the lights in the sanctuary to…
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Sew4Good Christmas Bazaar
Sundays, 12/7 and 12/14 from 9 am – 11:30 Stop by the lobby to see the types of projects this special group of sewists has been working on this year, and pick up a handmade craft to gift this Christmas. Your purchase will help the Sew4Good team buy fabric and notions for projects in the…
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Holiday Giving Trees 2025
Looking for ways to give to the community this Christmas? Our church collects for four different charities in December. Each year, we set up trees to fill with gifts which are distributed to people in need the week after Christmas. Your gifts make a difference! Determined Service means that we show God’s love for other…
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Frozen Food Ministry Feeds the Hungry
Kathy and Matt Auble share a 2025 update about this good work! The Frozen Food Ministry continues to reach others on a weekly basis. What started off as picking up leftover frozen food from Strongsville UMC, using that food to prepare camp meals for the un-housed, has expanded into distributing food to at least 5…
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Lights for Lions
Do you have broken or non-working holiday lights and extension cords? Don’t throw them away! Recycle them through the Cleveland Zoo’s Lights for Lions project. You will help protect lions and cheetahs in Tanzania – and you’ll help care for other parts of God’s creation by keeping valuable resources out of the landfill! Broken, non-working…
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Joyful Gathering – 2025
As the holiday season approaches, we have many wonderful opportunities to come together and serve our community with love and joy. Below are some upcoming Joyful Gatherings where your talents and hearts are needed in November and December 2025. Town Hall – Sunday, November 9 (After 10:30 AM Service) What’s Needed: Why It Matters: This…
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2026 Pledge Campaign
Dear Siblings in Christ, Ever wonder why Jesus taught through questions and parables, rather than easy, straight-forward answers? Because curiosity and faith are deeply intertwined. Faith isn’t about having all the answers, but a willingness to ask honest, open questions: What new thing is God growing in our midst? Where do we notice God’s Spirit…
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Donation Drive for Victims of Domestic Violence
Our October 2025 Donation Drive benefits Journey Center for Safety and Healing Domestic violence and child abuse affects us all. The statistics are grim. In the United States, 1 in 4 women will experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men will experience severe physical violence by…
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Creating Engagement Online – Worship Hosts
Imagine going to a worship service where no one greeted you, or said “hello.” What if the pastor never even looked in your general direction? If you had questions about where to find a bulletin or about the service and there was no one to ask? If you needed just a little help to be…