Our next COW Offering is Sunday 8/3! “Contribute Our Wealth” benefits Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle TN and Heifer International – Help Brookmeade fight hunger in the Nashville and wider world community by donating canned goods, cash or check, or donating via Tithe.ly (choose COW Offering in drop down menu). Thank you for your generosity!

Join our Project CURE Volunteer Group Saturday, August 2nd from 9:30 – 11:30 am! We help sort medical supplies on the first Saturday of every month at the Project CURE warehouse (2309 Clifton Ave. 37209). These are surplus supplies that are sent to countries all around the world that need them. No training required to participate! Please RSVP to the church office if you plan to attend. Thank you for helping support this important ministry! 

Brookmeade is excited to welcome Guest Pastor Quinn Bacon, MDiv to deliver our message “Pulled to Action, Pulled by Love” and lead worship this Sunday 7/13! Quinn Bacon (she/they) is an abolitionist, a Trans woman, a cook, a poet, and a neighbor. She has recently earned her MDiv from Vanderbilt Divinity School, focused on Prison Abolition and Trans Liberation theology. And she has been the Trans Buddy Coordinator at VUMC and a Carpenter Fellow at VDS running the Queer Faith Policy and Liberation Cohort. Pulling from her Southern and Appalachian heritage, she uses kitchen magic to build life-giving ministries of liberation.  From her work on Trans Fugitivity, she urges we all work to trans self/property, trans borders/walls, and trans compliance, to put humans/love over laws.

May God grant us the courage to continue working towards a country that respects and uplifts all of its people, not just the few. Let us continue leading our faith with love and compassion.

New UPPER ROOM daily devotionals for July-August are now available without cost in the foyer of the church.  The UPPER ROOM is a great devotional aid for having daily set-aside time for prayer and meditation on sacred scriptures to grow closer to God in everyday life.  You can pick up a copy in the foyer of the church, or contact the church office to have a copy mailed to you.

Our COW Offering is this Sunday 7/6! “Contribute Our Wealth” benefits Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle TN and Heifer International – Help Brookmeade fight hunger in the Nashville and wider world community by donating canned goods, cash or check, or donating via Tithe.ly (choose COW Offering in drop down menu). Thank you for your generosity!

Join our Project CURE Volunteer Group this Saturday, July 5th at 9:30 am! We help sort medical supplies on the first Saturday of every month at the Project CURE warehouse (2309 Clifton Ave. 37209). These are surplus supplies that are sent to countries all around the world that need them. No training required to participate! We’ll see you there!

Come Visit us at the Nashville Pride Festival! this weekend! We can’t wait to celebrate Pride with you. We will have a booth located near the Youth Area (Booth #123) both Saturday 6/28 and Sunday 6/29 from 11 am until 5 pm. Come say hello, learn more about Brookmeade, and get some free Pride giveaways (such as bandanas, stickers, temporary tattoos, bubbles, hugs and more!), and cold washcloths/fans to help beat the heat!

To learn more about the Nashville Pride festival including how to get tickets, parade information, and the concert line-up visit their website: https://www.nashvillepride.org/

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“The American Dream is built on the idea that each person would be able to meet their essential human needs as well as their wildest dreams of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To enact a dream, one cannot be caught in a cycle of survival wherein they are looking for their next meal, housing or worrying about keeping themselves and their loved ones healthy.  

Yet Congress is on the brink of passing a bill which would force millions of people to choose between a doctor’s visit and a full meal—all while increasing the national debt by $4 trillion, giving tax cuts to billionaires, and funding increased detention and deportation of our immigrant neighbors. 

As Christians, we will not allow the budget to be “balanced” on the backs of low-income communities. This budget reconciliation bill, if passed, would cause 10.1 million people to lose Medicaid coverage, and 4 million children to go hungry without SNAP benefits. It would also exclude over 2 million U.S. citizen children from the child tax credit because one of their parents is not a U.S. citizen, punishing children for their parents’ immigration status. Additionally, this bill would increase spending on the detention and deportation of our immigrant neighbors by over 40% while allowing the wealthy to skirt taxes on inherited investments and corporations to deduct even more in taxes.  

By supporting this bill, our elected officials are allowing more children to go hungry, more sick people to die, and more of our sacred neighbors to lose their homes. The only ones who will benefit from this bill are those who have more than enough. 

As the Senate prepares to vote on this legislation as daily costs continue to rise, tell Congress to vote NO on this budget reconciliation bill!” – UCC

The Strengthen the Church (STC) Offering reflects the shared commitment of people across the United Church of Christ to cooperatively build up the UCC. Conferences and the national setting equally share the gifts given by members and friends through their local congregations. The funds raised support leadership development, new churches, youth ministry, and innovation in existing congregations.  By your generosity to this offering, you build up the Body of Christ.

As God calls our congregations to be the church in new ways, your generosity will plant new churches, awaken new ideas in existing churches and develop the spiritual life in our youth and young adults. 

Brookmeade will collect the STC offering on Sunday, June 8th. You can send a check to the office, bring a check on Sunday, or donate online via Tithe.ly, choosing “STC Offering” in the drop-down menu.