A winter Centering Prayer practice offering guided stillness, silence, and reflection for those seeking peace and quiet during the season.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Mentor, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Mentor, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

A gentle winter meditation offered as a way to settle into Centering Prayer, inviting stillness, rest, and trust before entering silence.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Mentor, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

This Centering Prayer reflection explores holding what we carry through silence, presence, and shared listening. Rooted in the season of Epiphany, the gathering invited participants to notice worry, return to the body, and practice being present together — without fixing or control.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Mentor, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

This week’s Centering Prayer gathering invited us to notice how we arrive, the words we carry in, the conversations left unspoken, and the quiet challenge of entering a space as if it were a sanctuary. Through silence, writing, and release, we practiced letting go and consenting again to God’s gentle presence.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Mentor, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

Our Week 16 gathering invited us to prepare the way for the Lord, to slow down, breathe deeply, and make room for light. Through silence and reflection, we discovered that Advent readiness begins within: clearing space for grace to take root and letting God’s presence prepare the path ahead.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Concord Twp, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

Held by God is a reflection from this week’s Centering Prayer gathering during Advent. Together, we practiced settling the body, resting in silence, and releasing fear into God’s care. As we reflected on Advent’s promise, we named how love invites us forward even when fear arises. In stillness, we remembered that our whole life is prayer, and that we are always held by God.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Concord Twp, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Concord Twp, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Concord Twp, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

In this week’s gathering, our Centering Prayer group reflected on gratitude, grace, and the gifts that flow through ordinary moments. Guided by a passage from One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp, writes “The truly saved see grace everywhere and in everything”, we explored how thanksgiving opens our hearts to the light of God’s grace in all things.

In Week 13, our Centering Prayer group explored writing as prayer, using intuitive journaling as a gentle way to listen for God’s presence. Each word became an act of release, gratitude, and love, a quiet offering back to God.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Mentor, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Mentor, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.

The Hope Ridge Weekly Rundown is your complete guide to what’s happening each week at Hope Ridge United Methodist Church in Mentor, Ohio. You’ll find worship times, small group studies, children and youth ministries, and opportunities to serve in the community. Each Rundown reflects how we live out our mission to Welcome, Worship, Nurture, and Send: sharing Christ’s love in meaningful, everyday ways.