Brecksville United Methodist Church

Honest Worship

  • All Saints Sunday, November 2, 2025

    Bells Toll in Brecksville. The silence of a Sunday morning is interrupted by the tolling of a church bell.  Slowly and repeatedly, the bell sounds with a moment of silence between each toll.  The sound of the bell is a reminder to pause and remember. On All Saints Sunday, United Methodists around the world publicly remember…

  • Contemplative Worship

    October 5, 2025 through March 29, 2026 – Our Contemplative Worship Service meets in Fellowship Hall (on the ground floor of the church) Sundays at 8:30 am. Fall through spring, we move indoors for a unique worship opportunity – our Contemplative Worship Service. With a focus on achieving a direct, intimate, and experiential relationship with…

  • 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…

  • True & Chosen Name: A Service of Naming

    Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 6 pm at Brecksville United Methodist Church (Note the new date!) Before God named him Abraham, he was called Abram. 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 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 — by sizable majorities — voted to end decades-old bans on the ordination of “self-avowed practicing” gay clergy…

  • Get Off Your Donkey 2.0

    Two years ago, in January of 2023, we spent six weeks looking at the story of the Good Samaritan. In the story, a Samaritan man is traveling along the road from Jerusalem to Jericho and happens upon someone who has been robbed and beaten, lying on the side of the road. Instead of continuing on…

  • Holy Week and Easter 2025

    Holy Week is time of Christian observances leading to Easter Sunday. It begins with Palm Sunday and progresses through Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. It culminates with the Easter Sunday celebrations. This Lenten season, we invite you to walk with us through the in-between spaces—the waiting, the wondering, the wrestling, and the hope. Together, we…

  • 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,…

  • Ash Wednesday Worship Service

    Take a pause in the middle of your week and join us March 5, 2025 at 7 pm for our Ash Wednesday Worship Service. Step into the season of Lent together. The Ash Wednesday Worship Service is a special time to slow down, reflect, pray, and receive ashes as we prepare our hearts for Easter.…

  • Bishop’s Day In the Northern Waters District

    Bishop Hoo-See Jung is spending a Day in the Northern Waters District – and you’re invited to join him! Set aside the evening of Thursday, February 27 to share a meal with the Bishop, our District Superintendent and other Methodists from our conference at The United Methodist Church of Macedonia. We will also enjoy sharing…