City Church • Near West Side

City Church • Near West Side A church seeking all things new in Christ on the Near West Side of Cleveland. Join us Sundays at 10am Join us for worship on Sundays at 10am!

We are a nondenominational Christian church on the Near West Side of Cleveland seeking all things new in Christ together. We are led by Pastor Eloy Gonzalez who is supported by a small leadership team of members and two part-time staff. Street parking is available in the neighborhood and we are a block away from the RTA #25 bus stop at Professor and College Avenues. Note that our building is acces

sed up several exterior stairs, and we are not wheelchair accessible yet. Please visit us for a Sunday service or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Lent and Holy Week: A Journey Toward the CrossLent encompasses the entire season leading up to Easter, during which Chri...
03/25/2024

Lent and Holy Week: A Journey Toward the Cross

Lent encompasses the entire season leading up to Easter, during which Christians engage in reflection, fasting, and spiritual preparation. However, it is during Holy Week that we experience this journey with the greatest intensity. Holy Week, the final week of Lent, immerses us in the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. It is a time of deep contemplation, solemnity, and profound significance.

We invite you to journey with us through Holy Week. Check out our story for more reflections and ways to connect with us this week.

Holy Week Passages:
Mark 11:1-11
John 12:1-13:38;18:1-19:42
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Psalm 22:1-31
Matthew 27:57-66

In the season of Lent, we enter into the forty-day fast that Jesus undertook in the wilderness. Through this dedicated p...
02/14/2024

In the season of Lent, we enter into the forty-day fast that Jesus undertook in the wilderness. Through this dedicated period of self-examination, we allow God to further shape us into the image of Jesus. We also align our hearts with the suffering of Jesus as we move ever closer toward Holy Week and the event of the crucifixion.

The season begins with Ash Wednesday, in which we receive the imposition of ashes and are reminded we are but dust and to dust we shall return. During this season, we observe chosen forms of fasting, prayer, and service or charity for forty days but break the fast on Sundays, which are considered feast days of celebration throughout the church year.

Practices to Consider:

1. Attend an Ash Wednesday service to receive the imposition of ashes

2. Celebrate the Sunday feast days during Lent, setting aside your fast to embrace the right-now reality of the resurrection

3.Observe a Lenten fast for 40 days, sacrificially abstaining from a habit or usual food or activity

4. Lent Devotional:

Just Passion: A Six-Week Lenten Journey by Ruth Haley Barton, Sheila Wise Rowe, Tish Harrison Warren, Terry M. Wildman, and others

A Walter Other Thank Our Own by Walter Brueggemann

5. Listen to the lent playlist on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6K1aQJXz0GNJXJYSZYBhFs?si=GbYWpfDgSKKVsDFpiXwy7A; be sure to check out their website as well

“We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream" -Dr. Martin Luth...
01/15/2024

“We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream" -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

On Sunday we sang, "Mercy is the fragrance, of the broken
Justice will roll down, oh justice will roll down
From high upon those mountains with a mighty river sound
It will roll down
It will roll down"

In honor of his legacy let us sing these words again today, and every day forevermore.

JAN 15TH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAYA few of our members are attending this event in Akron, and we wanted to pass along th...
01/15/2024

JAN 15TH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY

A few of our members are attending this event in Akron, and we wanted to pass along the info.

When: Monday, January 15th, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Where: First Glance | Akron, OH

Cost: Free, but please register here. (YES YOU CAN REGISTER THE SAME DAY)

Facilitated by: Diana Oestreich is a US soldier turned peacemaker and author of Waging Peace. Diana heard Jesus’ call to love her enemies on the battlefield of Iraq and never turned back.

Overview: The event sponsors will be honoring MLK’s legacy of nonviolence and peacemaking with a workshop that will help us wage peace on earth. This event will provide inspiring stories of nonviolence, revealing its power to heal and bring peace. You will also walk away with practical tools for peacemaking in your work, community, and parenting (if you’re a parent). Don’t miss it — want to car pool? DM us!

The season of Christmas, or Christmastide, celebrates the birth of Jesus. It is a twelve-day season in which we herald t...
12/27/2023

The season of Christmas, or Christmastide, celebrates the birth of Jesus. It is a twelve-day season in which we herald the fulfillment of God’s promise of a Savior. After the long period of waiting through Advent, Christmas is for us a time of joy—traditionally, a time of “feasting”—where we celebrate the incarnate God in Jesus.

The tradition of celebrating Christmas over a period of twelve days goes back as far as the Middle Ages. The season culminates on January 5, the day before Epiphany, which is also known as the Twelfth Night.

In this season, we gather around the light—the external light of tree and fire, the internal light of faith, and the communal light of togetherness—as we celebrate the coming of Jesus, the one true Light, into the world.

—Jenn Giles Kemper

Today's Readings:

Proverbs 8:22-30
John 1:1-14

Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.Ash Wednesday service at 7p. Details at link in bio.
03/02/2022

Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

Ash Wednesday service at 7p. Details at link in bio.

Have you been around the church and are now ready to move from investigating to investing? Groups Intro is the first ste...
10/22/2021

Have you been around the church and are now ready to move from investigating to investing? Groups Intro is the first step toward committing to the people of a Group and them committing to you. This Sunday after the service. Details at citychurchcle.com/groups.

Feeling lonelier as the wind carries a chill and the days get darker? Find your people at the women’s fall social on Sun...
10/22/2021

Feeling lonelier as the wind carries a chill and the days get darker? Find your people at the women’s fall social on Sunday at Richardson Farms (https://citychurchcle.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/1042914) or the men’s fall social next Friday at Breakforth Studio (https://citychurchcle.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/1052659).

Socials are our way to make new friends and connect with old ones in a no-pressure environment. You are welcome, and we promise there will be no bait-and-switch surprise church service at the end!

Sliding into the weekend
09/17/2021

Sliding into the weekend

Betty Jo has a dream to transform her neighborhood from the inside out. At Rally CLE, we helped her throw a community pa...
09/14/2021

Betty Jo has a dream to transform her neighborhood from the inside out.

At Rally CLE, we helped her throw a community party to demonstrate what the neglected park on her street can become.

Thank you to everyone who came out and supported Light Up the Park and to Building Hope in the City for organizing a groundswell of asset–based community development efforts!

At Rally CLE, we’re helping Betty Jo love her community by showing what her neighborhood park can become. She says, “We ...
09/10/2021

At Rally CLE, we’re helping Betty Jo love her community by showing what her neighborhood park can become. She says, “We want all types of people, kids, seniors to be able to come to their park. For so long, the park has been forgotten, has no name and no lights, even though the potential is so much. It could be useful. I’m just one voice. We need more voices.”

Sign up to add your voice: citychurchcle.com/rally

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913 College Avenue
Cleveland, OH
44113

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