Discipleship
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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, you’ll find a link to a Spiritual Gifts Inventory, and information on…
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Spiritual Gifts
You are gifted. You have a purpose. Discover your spiritual gifts today! About the Spiritual Gifts Inventory: God has made each of us wonderfully unique. We are called to be part of one body in Christ, each member serving with a purpose. Explore the spiritual gifts God has given you, and discover ways to serve…
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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 “Hey, I’m a little concerned about backlash if we get too involved in advocacy for social justice issues.” My concerns were not because I personally had issues supporting equity and fairness. But rather, could we…
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Third Grade & Confirmation Bible Sunday
Students receive Bibles September 14, 2025 At Brecksville United Methodist Church, it’s a time-honored tradition to present Bibles to our third grade children—a moment of celebration, learning, and love. We joyfully invite you and your third grader to be part of this special milestone during worship on Sunday, September 14, 2025 at the 10:30 service. This…
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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…