Determined Service
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2026 Climate Justice Mission Journey
July 13 – 18, 2026 In July 2025, a team of UMC volunteers from Ohio traveled to North Carolina to assist in the recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene. Among them was a great group of folks from Brecksville UMC: Brian, Becky & Abigail Bendlak, George & Jenny Gee, Michelle Orr and Kathy & Matt Auble.…
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Project Birthday Kit
Donate through February 19, 2026 For families struggling with food insecurity, a birthday cake can feel like an unattainable luxury. On Sunday, February 22 the Do Something Sunday kids are going to assemble Birthday Cake Kits to send to local food pantries. Pastor Heidi and Wiggle Room Coordinator, Matt Botzman, both have birthdays that week,…
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Trash to Treasure
Put things you have around the house to good use by donating them to one of our ongoing collections: Bring your donations to the first floor donation stations and do some good!
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Greater Cleveland Congregations
Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) is a nonpartisan, multi-racial, multi-faith group of people working together to build power for social justice. GCC unites people from across Cuyahoga County to tackle issues and take actions that strengthen our communities. Brecksville UMC is part of this network for good. Come back to this page often to learn about…
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Service Saturday at the Kids’ Book Bank
Your gently used children’s books can help foster a love of reading and learning for kids in communities throughout greater Cleveland. Hands on service. The Missions & Community Engagement Team is launching a new partnership with the Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank in January. On the second Saturday of every other month (January, March, May, etc.)…
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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…