Announcements

Sunday Worship Services

Espoo services meet at 10:30 at our Matinkylä location – welcome! Please use the main doors in the courtyard to enter on Sunday morning; you’ll find our worship gathering on the second floor.

Helsinki services meet at 16:00 in downtown Helsinki – welcome! The main sanctuary is on the 3rd floor, coffee fellowship is held on the 2nd floor.

Find us on the map at this page!

In case of any last minute changes, we will let you know via our UCC Ministry Updates WhatsApp group chat – if you would like to be added to this chat group, please contact a pastor or staff member!

UCC Church Announcements

The Kingdom Conversation:

Join us for this exciting seminar meant to better equip believers to share The Good News of The Kingdom of God with Muslims in our community. Jeff Seeger who has been working around the world with OM is coming from the United States to lead the training. The seminar will be held in English but we have the option for interpretation to Finnish as well.

Valosali, Matinkartanontie 13
April 20 14:00-18:00

Light food and refreshments will be provided.

Sign up here: KC2024

Monthly Prayer Meeting:

Join us for our church-wide in-person prayer meeting at the UCC Offices (Matinkartanontie 13) on every last Wednesday of the month. 

The next prayer meeting will take place on April 24th at 18:00, doors will be open from 17:45 and light refreshments will be available. 

The conference room will be available for children/childcare. All are welcome! 

Easter Prints by David Popa:

The artwork on display at our Easter service is available for free download, as well as to purchase as your very own physical print copy. Download or purchase (or both!) at: ucclife.fi/easter-prints

50% of all proceeds of print purchases & donations will go towards supporting UCC Missions; the other 50% will go towards supporting a Christian Arts College in Espoo (Wildfire College).

Albania mission trip – summer ’24

Please let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in going on a short term mission trip to Albania this summer. It will most likely take place 22-26th July, and cost about 800 euros + flights (this includes sponsoring three locals to also take part in the outreach)

Sign up here

Meaningful Membership at UCC

We’re excited to be launching a Meaningful Membership campaign at UCC Espoo! 

If you attend the UCC Espoo service, please take a minute to fill out THIS FORM to help us get organised in serving you better. 

Membership Class

Are you interested in learning about what it mean to be a covenant member of United Community Church? 

Our next standalone membership class for Espoo will take place on April 14th, at roughly 12:00 noon or immediately following the UCC Espoo worship service at the Valotalo. Sign up for the class with THIS FORM.

Contact Shaun with any questions!

Baptism

If you want to be baptised at UCC, please fill out THIS FORM and our pastors will be in touch with you soon!

Newcomers’ Meeting

Are you new to UCC? Do you want to find out more about life and community at UCC?

Join us once a month after the morning service for a Newcomers’ Meeting, every second Sunday of the month. 

Contact Shaun, Daniel or Gabe for more details.

Marriage Camp for English-speaking couples

For the first time ever, Parempi Avioliitto is offering one of their weekend marriage camps in English on April 20-21 in Järvenpää!

We’ve hosted one-off seminar days for marriage refreshment through Parempi Avioliitto and commend their ministry to all married or engaged couples. 

For all the info & to sign up, please visit their own webpage: https://parempiavioliitto.fi/tapahtumat/course-for-couples/

UCC Flea Market

UCC Flea Market is an ongoing ministry geared towards fundraising for missions projects that UCC supports! 

Find out more at: ucclife.fi/fleamarket

Join the Disability Ministry Team

We are putting together a team of volunteers to help parents of disabled children, especially during Sunday services. If you are interested in the ministry, or simply want to learn more, please fill out this form!

Get connected at UCC

What does getting connected at UCC this season might look like for you? We have a number of volunteer teams at both congregations; various community events; clubs, gatherings or groups; and seasonal special events as well.

Serving or volunteering during a Sunday worship service or with the youth teams is a great way to get to know people, to get connected, and to grow in sacrificially loving, serving and encouraging each other. 

Please fill out this form to let us know what volunteer teams or church groups / events you are interested in, and a staff member will be in touch soon!

Sunday Services at UCC

We are in a sermon series through 1 Samuel. At UCC we typically teach sermon series on books of the Bible, chapter by chapter. 

We livestream both of our Sunday services. You can always watch the latest service online at our digital bulletin (ucclife.fi/bulletin), where you will also find the Order of Worship for that Sunday.

To catch up on any Sundays you might have missed, check out our sermon archive via this link or from the link at the end of every digital bulletin. 

We also have a playlist on Spotify with all the songs that are sung during the current sermon series – click here to listen in

If you would like to learn about volunteering on any of our Sunday service teams, please contact Daniel Ottoson (for morning service volunteering) or Miriam Brown (for evening service volunteering).

Upcoming UCC Social Events

We have a WhatsApp group chat where we post all our Social events. Events are also posted on the church website calendar.

Anyone at all can organise a social event – we’d love to have more events! The heart behind our Social team is to organise low-threshold events to which we can invite friends from outside the church, as well as to build our own fellowship and community within UCC. If you would like to host / invite / organise / suggest an event, please contact Miriam or Mark to get info online and into the WhatsApp chat group. 

To join the WhatsApp group, you can fill out this form online, or you can contact Miriam (0407259049) or Mark (+1 717 742 8018) via WhatsApp and ask to be added to the group!

Welcome to a Friday morning pre-work morning coffee in downtown Helsinki usually weekly. There is a seperate whatsapp group for the morning coffee – if you’d like to be added for all the latest details or updates, please contact Miriam!

We meet in the Fazer Café in the Kamppi Shopping Center.

Friday morning coffees are usually from 9-10:30 – join anytime! 

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