Our worship service starts at 10 am and includes hymns, prayers, scripture reading and a sermon. It usually lasts about an hour. Right now we are worshiping online and will adjust this message once we are able to meet together in our sanctuary once again. 
We are an inter-generational church and strive to be family-friendly, with an active ministry for children and youth. All ages are welcome in worship. We also offer nursery and child-care, Younger children begin the service with us and usually leave after about 15 minutes. Older children have the option of leaving for a special sermon time. Junior high and high school youth meet at 9 am and then often sit together in worship. Give us a call at 206-524-2322 for more specifics.
Wheelchair Access: The front entry is wheelchair accessible as are the rest rooms. Please don't hesitate to ask for assistance.
A note from your Pastors
Dear Friends in Christ, grace and peace to you. We your pastors write with broken hearts to again lament the shootings of Black men by police this week, in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Lafayette, Louisiana. In Kenosha, it was Jacob Blake (father, son, uncle, cousin) who was...
A note from your pastors
Greetings Beloved Community- We, your pastors, have made a commitment in this Covid time to reach out to you each week with a letter (an email, actually) to let you know that you are always in our hearts and on our minds. Perhaps you’ve noticed. We are determined to...
A note from your pastors
Dear beloved community: “Connect, connect, connect.” We offer these words as a very loose paraphrase of Romans 12:5 “. . . We who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another." Throughout this month, we are working hard to provide...
A note from your pastors
Greetings Beloved Community, “So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don’t give up, or quit. Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the...
A note from your pastors
Friends, God’s grace, peace, and justice to you, in the places you inhabit, and within God’s Creation. As we enter our sixth month continuing to be church in a physically distanced way, with our building serving essential functions, we are mindful of the many...
A note from your pastors
Grace and peace to you on this summer day. Your pastors continue to miss seeing you all in person, and we continue to hold you all in prayer even at physical distance. As we near completion of 5 months of keeping our building in an essential function mode, we continue...
We love including YOU in our worship service!
Here are some ideas of how you can participate in our online worship service! Send in a video of your children singing/moving to the children’s song. Record your voices saying the Lord’s prayer, covenant, and/or prayer of confession - the more, the merrier! Record...
Fall Worship: Called to Faithful Action
All faith traditions recognize the creative relationship of systematic belief structures and the ways we live out those beliefs- as well as the ways actions reveal what we believe. This fall, as we continue to navigate this pandemic time and as we prepare for...
Children’s Ministry—Noticing
Since Seabeck, I’ve continued my practice of noticing. I hope you and your kids have too. What have you been noticing? I have been noticing that, as the marches have waned and our focus has shifted elsewhere, the anger remains. My own anger has gained a new feistiness...
Death in the community – George Dvorak
George Dvorak Born: November 30, 1923 Died: July 21, 2020 George died on Tuesday, July 21 at the age of 96. He was a member of UCUCC for over 73 years! George and his wife, Mary Jo (died in 2011) devoted a lot of time and service to our church. He served on the Church...
The search is over! Introducing Benjamin A. Rogers, Interim Music Director
After a busy, purposeful, and sometimes surprised filled two-month process, the Interim Music Director (IMD) Search Team identified, and the Worship and Music Committee affirmed, the selection of Benjamin A. Rogers to fill the position vacated by Heidi Blythe when she...
Liturgical arts now the focus of new web page
Volunteers and artists-in-residence have been enhancing our worship and our awareness of the Devine for more than ten years. Known collectively as the Creativity Council for the Literary Arts, their accomplishments are highlighted on a new webpage on our site. Many...
Prayers for Lebanon
On Tuesday, August 4, 2020, massive explosions rocked Beirut, set off by a fire near a facility that has for several years held highly combustible chemicals at the Port of Beirut. The United Church of Christ has several partners in Lebanon, through Global...
Sacred Earth Matters – Moving to Higher Ground Amidst Rising Seas
All of Washington’s coast is in the Cascadia earthquake subduction zone, and much of it is in a tsunami inundation zone. Research shows that sea-level rise can significantly increase the hazards of tsunamis. FEMA estimates coastal Washington needs more than 50...
Seabeck: all church camp: A virtual experience
Since 1968, UCUCC has been gathering for a retreat at Seabeck conference Center. Each year an invited guest speaker has the participants in thinking about implications of the Christian Faith for selected issues. It is designed for attendees of all ages to explore the...
Growing ourselves into Anti-Racist people
One year ago, we voted and committed to becoming a Racial Justice church. The spiritual and moral work right now for our mostly white congregation is to see the racism that surrounds us, and understand the privilege white skin endows. One of the best ways to keep...
UCUCC Clergy Team Roles Now and After Pastoral Search Committee completes Call of New Minister
UCUCC has been on a journey of self-reflection and preparation for our future since Peter Ilgenfritz departure at the end of 2018. In January 2019, Todd Smiedendorf joined our Leadership Team as our Bridge Minister. We are all grateful for the leadership and fresh...
Peace Circles at UCUCC
In the fall of 2017, Aileen Pruiksma, who had long been deeply engaged in multicultural work at UCUCC, acted on her observations of the exciting restorative justice process taking place at Garfield High School and brought the central element of that process, the Peace...
Racial Justice Resolution Impacts Outreach Giving
~Elizabeth Dickinson with input from Carol Nelson As a church, we acknowledge that what we have to give to others is derived not just from our own labor, but also from the workings of a system of privilege and white supremacy. As the Love & Justice Committee (LJC)...
Racial Justice—a Spiritual Imperative
The history and progression of Racial Justice efforts at UCUCC ~Ginger Warfield February of 2016 marked a very specific launching point for UCUCC’s trajectory toward becoming, or at least aspiring to become, a Racial Justice Church. The Church Council of Greater...
Northwest Community Bail Fund (NCBF)
Early on the Racial Justice Steering Committee recognized that some of our racial justice efforts should reach beyond the walls of UCUCC. In summer of 2018 we found a way to do so, by working with the Northwest Community Bail Fund (www.nwcombailfund.org). This is a...
Racial Justice Resources – books to consider
The following are books that the UCUCC Racial Justice Book Club are reading (monthly on the third Tuesday at noon). White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for White People to Talk About Race by Robin DiAngelo (2018, Beacon Press). The UCUCC Church Council read this NYT...
Church Council meeting summary June and July, 2020
Church Council meeting Summary - June 17, 2020, via Zoom After a circle of sharing focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests against police violence and racial injustice have affected each of us these past weeks, we did grounding for our work and ministry,...
We Declare Ourselves a Racial Justice Church One year later…
A year ago in June, our youth sounded a call to action! They let us know that we, as a church, needed to get moving in addressing systematic racism, and in particular, wondered why we didn’t even have a Black Lives Matter banner showing our support with the Black...
A list of recommended videos
Traces of the Trade - A Story from the Deep North. The film chronicles the journey of nine DeWolf descendants as they trace the slave trade routes of their ancestors from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba. The 86 minute film is available for free through the Seattle...
A note from your Pastors
Greetings Beloved Community, On this beautiful mid-summer week our hearts are holding you all. Last night at our monthly Church Council meeting we shared together some moments when we have felt especially connected to one another and to our calling as a church...
A note from your Pastors – Seabeck All-Church Camp 2020
July 3, 2020 Greetings Beloved Community, We write to you recognizing the strength and resilience of this community. You are showing up again and again as familiar patterns of “being church” fall away and new, creative patterns emerge. Our faith community is well...
Spiritual Balancing in the Time of Covid-19 Part Two
For all of us... Since We Cannot Physically Attend Church Dear friends, Here are more ideas for spiritually balancing during these times of isolation. Practice "beholding," which means truly attending to someone or something else. Go outside and find a...
A note from your Pastors
June 27, 2020 Grace and Peace, Friends. Your pastors continue with you on this pandemic journey of being church. What will we learn? What can we create? What must we grieve? How might we continue to connect, nurture and serve? Indeed, these questions of faith are...
Death Announcement, June, 2020
Ralph Swanson Jr. Born: July 17, 1955 Died: June 4, 2020 Ralph died unexpectedly at the age of 64. He grew up in this church and later joined in 1993 along with his wife J’Nell. They raised their two sons, Jeremy & Christopher in the church. Ralph was a...
UCUCC Church Council and Lay leaders 2020/21
UCUCC Church Council 2020/21 Leadership Moderator, Terry Moore (gro.ccuytisrevinu@rotaredom) Asst Moderator, Ed Coleman Treasurer, Don Guthrie Secretary, Mary Sue Galvin Committee Liaisons Greg Turner (Love & Justice) Rebecca Schmidt (Christian Ed) Priscilla...
May, 2020 Council meeting Summary
The Council of the University Congregational United Church of Christ met on May 20 via Zoom. Council reviewed the financial report prepared by Don Guthrie. Overall, we are in good shape. UCUCC did receive a $189,000 loan/grant from the Payroll Protection Plan via Home...
A note from your Pastors
June 18, 2020 Greetings Beloved Community. Grace and Peace to you in this week of great turning. As we in the northern hemisphere approach the longest day of the year we note that the summer solstice is this coming Sunday. It is hard to believe that summer is almost...
A note from your Pastors
June 10, 2020 Beloved Community, Grace and peace to you in this eleventh week of pandemic response and this week of George Floyd’s funeral, when we lift our prayers for family and friends who grieve his death and for the grief and righteous anger we all carry as we...
When do we re-gather?
We know that many of you have already heard plans and news about how churches might begin to gather in person again. We do not say “reopen” because we have never been closed or stopped being church. It is only our physical gathering that has been on hold....
Trees—plant new & preserve old
The United Church of Christ has a goal of planting 10,000 trees to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Thus far, 8,000 trees have been planted in national forests damaged by forest fires, 500 in Kenya, Zambia, and Palestine, and 970 by UCC members in their own...
“Deep Waters” honors water and oceans
Our worship service on June 7 focused on the power, beauty and importance of our world oceans. One highlight of the service was a Praise Song for Oceania, by Craig Santos Perez. The poem presentation was planned by Creativity Council members Kris Garratt and Lori...
A note from your Pastors
June 4, 2020 Beloved Community, Grace and peace to you, dear ones. This has been a hard week. As we enter a third month of this world-wide pandemic and the grief that has accompanied it in terms of lost lives, lost jobs, and lost connections with one another, we have...
Antiracism resources for your head and heart, and a call to action
The UCUCC Racial Justice Action team wants to share three important resources with the congregation this week. The first is a sermon by the Reverend Dr. Otis Moss III entitled The Cross and the Lynching Tree: A Requiem for Ahmaud Arbery. It is a beautiful and moving...
Mother Earth in 121 Million Megapixels
The silk painting hung on the sanctuary’s north wall this summer is based on a photo taken by the Electro-L, a Russian weather satellite. The photo was taken in one shot with a resolution of 121 million megapixels. Because the image uses a combination of visible and...