Our next trip to the Project CURE Warehouse (2300 Clifton Ave.) is scheduled for Saturday, April 2nd, 9:30 am – 12 pm. We will be sorting medical supplies. Newcomers are very welcome but please wear a mask! For planning reasons and to make sure we are COVID safe we need a head count for our group prior to volunteering. Please RSVP to Cindy D. ASAP (or the church office) if you plan to attend. Thanks and see you there!
Brookmeade will be collecting for the OGHS UCC Offering on Sunday, March 27th. One Great Hour of Sharing® is one of four special mission offerings of the United Church of Christ. This Lenten Offering supports the disaster, refugee, and development ministries of the United Church of Christ within Wider Church Ministries. Click HERE to watch the video from the UCC. You can donate to OGHS online with Tithe.ly by choosing OGHS Offering in the drop-down menu, or by mailing a check to Brookmeade with OGHS in the memo line.
Please place your orders for Easter Lilies and Hydrangeas no later than Sunday, April 3rd! Lilies are $20, Hydrangeas are $30. Please contact the church office to place your order. Flowers will be available to take home on Easter Sunday (April 17, 2022).
Just a reminder to download your copy of the Lent Prayer Journal (see below) from Raise the Roof Academy featuring a prayer for every day of Lent written by their students. Raise the Roof Academy develops high-quality education centers, provides community health programs, creates income generating opportunities, and grows alongside local leaders in rural Uganda. This multi-faceted, participatory approach builds local capacities and long-term relationships to create lasting, community-wide advancement. Find out more at https://www.raisetheroofacademy.org/ . Brookmeade has been partnering with RTRA for the last several years. If you are interested in sponsoring a student through Brookmeade please contact the church office today!
This Lenten season from Sunday March 6th through Sunday April 3rd, we are asking you to bring your loose change to church! Our Change for Change fundraiser will be done in collaboration with Holy Trinity Community Church. Which church do you think can collect the most pounds of coins over the month of Lent? This fundraiser will benefit Room in the Inn, a nonprofit organization that serves individuals experiencing homelessness in the Nashville area. So start turning over your couch cushions, filling your change jars, and checking your pockets so that your change can be a part of bringing change!
We invite all who are able to come and join in a short hour of praise, devotion, and the receiving of ashes on Wednesday, March 2nd at 7pm at our sister UCC, Holy Trinity Community Church (located at 6727 Charlotte Pike #4235, Nashville, TN 37209). Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent. During this time, we remember God’s love that was shown to us through the life and ministry of Jesus. Pastor Laura will participate in giving a short devotional message while HTCC’s worship team will lead us in music. We invite all Brookmeaders to be a part of this collaborative devotion as we enter the Lenten season.
New issues of the UPPER ROOM daily devotional for March-April are now available without cost in the vestibule of the church. Along with daily scripture readings & meditations, this issue contains a thoughtful article entitled “Remembering Our Humanity” by someone with Nashville roots: Rev. Cameron Barr, Senior Pastor at United Church of Chapel Hill (North Carolina), one of the most vibrant & growing UCC churches in the nation!
While attending Vanderbilt Divinity School, Cameron was a Pastoral Intern at Howard Congregational Church, one of our beloved UCC sister churches in Nashville and was also on staff at Brookmeade for a while during the pastorship of Rev. Linda White.
Along with being senior pastor at Chapel Hill and having a family with his husband (Jackson Den Herder), Cameron serves as Chair of our national Board of Directors of the United Church of Christ! Get your UPPER ROOM copy to read Cameron Barr’s article and to have daily set-aside time for prayer & meditation on sacred scriptures.
New Day! New Time! New Study!
On Sunday, March 6, 2022, at 12:00 noon, Learn & Grow will return to meeting in-person at the church. We will offer a Zoom option for those who need to meet remotely with us. We will do a Lenten study called Witness at the Cross. Written by Amy-Jill Levine, we will look at the crucifixion through the eyes of the different people who were there. We hope to see you all there!
Our next trip to the Project CURE Warehouse (2300 Clifton Ave.) is scheduled for Saturday, March 5th, 9:30 am – 12 pm. We will be sorting medical supplies. Newcomers are very welcome but please wear a mask! For planning reasons and to make sure we are COVID safe we need a head count for our group prior to volunteering. Please RSVP to Cindy D. or the church office (brookmeade@comcast.net) if you plan to attend. Thanks and see you there!
We will be returning to in person worship beginning Sunday, February 20th. We ask that everyone in attendance continue to wear masks and socially distance while in the building. We will continue to post videos of our services on the following Monday.
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