Discipleship
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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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A Summer Devotional
Summer Days: A Companion to Mary Oliver’s “Devotionals” by Salt Project At its best, summer is a season of rest and joy – tapping into the ancient, sacred practice of sabbath restoration. Mary Oliver can help us reconnect with this dimension of summertime, savoring what she calls its “luminous sprawl of gifts.” This devotional is…
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Serve a Meal at South Street Ministries
You are invited to be part of the the incredible work of loving and serving our neighbors in South Akron and Summit Lake! At South Street Ministries, transformation happens through relationships, and volunteers are at the heart of that mission. Whether it’s mentoring youth at Open Gym, preparing meals for our Reentry meetings, helping in…
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Prayer Lab
Join Anthy in the Chapel each Wednesday for Prayer Lab: a time to come together in supportive community, and experiment with different forms of contemplative prayer practices. In each hour-long session, Anthy will facilitate two guided prayerful meditations, each lasting about 20 minutes with a short break in between, and if time allows, a period…
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A Call To Awakening
Jenny Gee Reflects on our call as Christians to care for God’s creation “The pure of heart see all things full of God. They see him in the firmament of heaven, in the moon walking in brightness, in the sun when he rejoiceth as a giant to run his course. … They see him ‘preparing…
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Resources for Lent
Looking for new practices this Lenten season? These resources for Lent are available for everyone! Everything In Between Worship Series This year, we’re letting the Gospel of Luke guide us through Lent. Beginning with Jesus setting his face toward Jerusalem (Luke 9:51), this worship series flows through several familiar stories—the Good Samaritan, Mary and Martha,…
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Eunoia
Pastor Heidi reflects on her star word On the first Sunday of 2025, I chose a star word* out of the basket. It was the only card that was facing up, as if God was saying, “Here, Heidi. This one is for you.” The word was Eunoia and underneath it was written the words (Greek)…
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Spiritual Trail Guide
Fall 2024 The mission of The United Methodist Church is to“make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.” At Brecksville United Methodist Church, we live that out by creating safe spaces to grow with God and one another. But what does that mean? How do we put that into action? As our…
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Third Grade and Confirmation Bible Sunday
September 15 at the 10:30 service It is a long standing tradition in the Brecksville United Methodist Church to give a Bible to children entering 3rd grade. Whether you call Brecksville UMC your spiritual home or you just visit us sometimes, we want to warmly welcome you to join us on Sunday, September 15th at…
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Sunday School for Kids
At Brecksville United Methodist Church we are unabashedly authentic in our lifelong quest to grow with God and learn with one another, with age appropriate opportunities for all ages. Our early childhood education programs are designed to meet children where they are and to develop sticky faith that will give kids a foundation for lifelong…