Avon Lake Baptist Church is located on Lear Road directly across from Learwood Middle School. This is a sizable building with ample parking in the rear of the church. The church holds Sunday services at 11am and 7pm. Sunday school is at 9:45am. Avon Lake Baptist Church holds a prayer meeting each Wednesday at 7pm.
Community Resource Services is a privately run, non-profit agency that assists families and individuals in need in Avon and Avon Lake. CRS provides emergency aid, information, referrals and advocacy, transportation for senior citizens as well as help and support for families in need. The agency, working under the motto, "People Helping People," relies heavily on donations and the efforts of volunteers.
The organization has become a mainstay in the community as a resource for those in need. CRS just expanded its offices to include more storage for items to be donated. Its signature fundraising event is the annual charity ball, held each January. Other events, including the Buckeye Bash are held throughout the year. CRS represents the Salvation Army in Avon and Avon Lake. To locate CRS' offices go behind the building that house the Post Office and Pizza Cutter. Look for the red, white and blue heart.
This pre-school is affiliated with the Avon Lake Presbyterian Church on Electric Boulevard. Cornerstone is ALPC's non-profit mission that strives to offer a pre-school to the church's community as well as others in Avon Lake.
While communication and listening skills are encouraged, the school also encourages its students to have a positive attitude about themselves and others while preparing for elementary school. Classes are offered for three- and four-year-old children.
Lake Shore United Methodist Church's mission is "We share God's love with everyone and teach them to do the same." The church sits on 7.28 acres and abuts the Russ Lynch Memorial Bicentennial Park.
The church supports two missions and emphasizes mission work. Outreach is an important part of the congregation and it maintains a hospitality network.
The location is also used to host meetings for different organizations including Weight Watchers, AA, Al-Anon, Brownies, Financial Peace University and parenting classes.
The congregation is led by the Rev. Nancy Manner.
Avon Lake United Church of Christ (ALUCC) is one of the most active churches in the area. Founded in 1896, it is the oldest church in Avon Lake. It considers itself a community church and hosts a number of groups including the Avon Lake Women's Chorus, Girl Scout, Cub Scouts, music and theater groups and three weekly Alcoholics Anonymous groups.
"We think of ourselves as a caring church family – a church for people who like to think for themselves," Pastor Kelly Brill said. "We care for one another through parish nursing programs and our Stephen Ministry program. We have Christian Education opportunities for all ages. Our full-time youth director organizes year-round service and learning activities for youth in fifth - 12th grade."
Brill noted that the church's communion table is open to all.
The church offers adult education courses including book and film discussion, Bible study and support groups. It also maintains two adult vocal choirs, a bell choir, and a children's choir.
ALUCC manages the Good Neighbor Thrift Shop on the corner of Lear Road and Electric Boulevard. The long-running store, which sells quality resale items, is an outreach ministry. The church is active in hands-on mission work and helps with Haven Center homeless shelter in Lorain, St. Paul's Community Church in Ohio City and the Family Promise Interfaith Hospitality Network. It also sponsors a mission hospital in India.
The church prides itself on its members heavy involvement in the church as well as the community. In 2010, the church began construction on a new youth center, called the Buoy.
Avon Lake Presbyterian Church began in 1951 with 13 members from Bay Presbyterian Church who started a branch Sunday School at the Masonic Temple in Avon Lake. It formerly established in 1954 and the church building was completed three years later. The church has enjoyed several expansions over the years and hosts Cornerstone Preschool.
The church has ample space in its parking lot, with nearby overflow parking.
