Our next trip to the Project CURE Warehouse (2300 Clifton Ave.) is scheduled for Saturday, May 6th from 9:30 am – 12 pm. We will be sorting medical supplies. Newcomers are very welcome! For planning reasons we need a head count for our group prior to volunteering. Please RSVP to the church office ASAP if you plan to attend. Thanks and see you there!

The May-June issue of the UPPER ROOM is now available without cost in the foyer of the church.  Published in 36 languages & distributed throughout the world, the UPPER ROOM is an interdenominational & international devotional aid for having set-aside time for daily prayer & meditation on sacred scriptures.  For those who wish to receive a copy by mail, please contact the church office.

Please join us for a “Spring Cleaning” on Saturday, April 29th from 9:30 am – 12 pm as we prepare for summer with various cleaning projects outside on our property, including clearing leaves and debris and trash, as well as sprucing up our building indoors for upcoming events. If you are able to help, please RSVP to Jon W. or the church office.

Learn & Grow meets Sundays at 9:15 am. After Easter we will use two books to guide a discussion on church growth. It will be an opportunity for self-examination and consider how Brookmeade needs to change to experience renewal and growth. “In “Prophetic Renewal: Hope for the Liberal Church” Reverend Michael S. Piazza tells the story of the Cathedral of Hope and its growth against all odds.”  We will also use “Liberating HOPE!: Daring to Renew the Mainline Church” by Michael S. Piazza and Cameron B. Trimble. “[It] provides concrete and tangible 21st century insight to those churches looking to renew their congregations through hope and optimism rooted in the resurrection.” This will be a challenging study, but we hope it will help prepare the congregation for the future.

Today, on Transgender Visibility Day, Brookmeade stands with and for all transgender people. 

The God we reverence and worship loves every single human being as created, because every single human being is created in the image of God. God loves those who come to realize they inhabit a body that does not match the rigid preconceptions of many others, which whose preconceptions they feel obligated to wear. God has compassion for the distress caused by this disconnect, and for the confusion, even trauma, this can cause for those seeking only to live into the fullness of who they are as created by God. God also has compassion for those facing transgender identity in others, especially in loved ones.  

At Brookmeade, as individual members of the Body of Christ, we are free to believe and act in accordance with our perception of God’s will for our lives. But we are called to live in a loving, covenantal relationship with one another. That requires us both to affirm the truth of what we each uniquely experience of our embodied selves—pains, joys, and all else—and also to commit ourselves to accept and uphold  how others come to identify themselves in this world.  To uphold these covenants, we take up the ongoing work of educating ourselves on, and honoring—despite our prior expectations—the infinite range of our many God-given gifts and differences. 

So we call upon all our fellow human beings to join us in this covenantal and caring work of educating themselves about this long, mostly hidden phenomenon of transgender identity, and to trust others’ declarations of their own identity, because declaring an internal God-created identity at odds with preconceptions of the world takes courage and is the end result of wrestling with soul-deep pain. 

An excellent educational opportunity will unfold this evening. Please join us in joining our friend Dahron Johnson this evening at 6:00pm, through the link below. 

God calls each and every one of us to emulate God’s compassion and love toward all persons, and to act accordingly. 

Link to Event:

Click HERE for Facebook Event – Join the Facebook Event to be redirected to the Zoom link

In light of the events of this week, we want to support the families of Covenant School and Presbyterian Church by attending the citywide candlelight vigil held this evening at Nashville Public Square Park behind the Courthouse at 5:30 pm tonight. Please join us.

Vigil details:
* When: Wednesday, March 29 at 5:30 p.m.
* Where: 1 Public Square Park, Nashville, TN 37201 
* Who: Mayor John Cooper, District 25 Metro Council Member Russ Pulley, State Rep. Rev. Harold M. Love Jr. and Metro Nashville police Chief John Drake

Easter Sunday we have three celebrations to anticipate: a potluck breakfast at 9:45 am coordinated by our industrious Fellowship Team, Easter worship at 10:30 am, and an Easter Egg Hunt following worship designed especially for our youngest members. We will all have fun before and after our time of joyful worship!

On Maundy Thursday 2023, Thursday evening, April 6th, Brookmeaders will again gather at 6:00 pm for a simple supper of soup, bread and beverages followed by holy communion at 6:40 pm. As in the past, our fellow UCC congregations in Nashville have been invited to join us. Come for this time of holy reflection and fellowship accompanied by reflective music.

First Sundays of the month we collect our COW Offering. Monetary donations are split between Second Harvest of Middle TN and Heifer International. You can also bring canned goods on Sunday morning to donate to Second Harvest. Please designate your check for COW Offering or if you give online you can choose COW offering on the drop-down menu on Tithe.ly. Thank you for supporting these important organizations and helping Brookmeade fight hunger!

Our next trip to the Project CURE Warehouse (2300 Clifton Ave.) is scheduled for Saturday, April 1st from 9:30 am – 12 pm. We will be sorting medical supplies. Newcomers are very welcome! For planning reasons we need a head count for our group prior to volunteering. Please RSVP to the church office ASAP if you plan to attend. Thanks and see you there!