Honest Worship
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Christmas Eve 2025
With four services to choose from, Christmas Eve is truly special at Brecksville United Methodist Church. If you have never been to our church, you will be welcomed with open arms at Brekcsville UMC – or any time! We strive to be an inclusive church. We intentionally make space for everyone to encounter a loving…
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Advent 2025
The season of Advent begins four Sundays before Christmas (November 30 this year) and ends on Christmas Eve. Advent is the beginning of the church year for Christians. During Advent, we prepare for and anticipate the coming of Christ. This year’s Advent theme at Brecksville United Methodist Church is “What do you fear? Insisting on…
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Advent Dinner Church 2025
Take part in this unique worship service to center your soul in this busy season. As Advent begins, we pause to gather for a simple meal of soup and bread, lovingly prepared by the church staff. We will hear scripture, sing songs, and celebrate Holy Communion around the table. As always, all are welcome. A…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…