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

EASTER EXCEPTION: on Good Friday and Easter Sunday we will have combined service in Espoo – please join us there for worship. No Helsinki services on March 29th or 31st!

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

Easter at UCC

Join us in celebrating the Easter weekend at UCC!

We’ll have a reflective Good Friday service from 17-18 on the 29th, and a Resurrection Sunday celebration service on the 31st at 10:30.

Read about our Easter challenge at ucclife.fi/easter-challenge 

Click here for a downloadable shareable flyer for Easter Sunday!

Easter Sunday Potluck Fellowship

The Easter Service will be followed by our traditional extended potluck feast fellowship!

If you plan to bring food (savoury or sweet) for the potluck fellowship please bring something that:
1. can be served either cool or at room temperature. We’re unable to accomodate for hot food.
2. is prepared on/in a dish for serving and ready to go i.e. pre-cut or portioned and with a serving utencil.

To help ensure that our kitchen team can join the service on time please bring food items directly to the buffet table by 10:20. Reminder also that the Valotalo is a nut-free building. Thank you!

Good Friday Reflection Service

Join us for a Good Friday Reflection Service at the Valotalo from 17-18 as we spend some time together at the foot of the cross.

The service will be followed by some light refreshments 

Lent at UCC

Join us in a church-wide season of prayer and fasting for the 6 weeks of Lent! Lent this year will begin on Wednesday February 14th and run until Thursday March 28th. We’ve provided various resources for you for this season, including some reading material, a prayer calendar, and a call to worship through fasting. 

During the six weeks of Lent, we will be hosting a weekly prayer-call online, every Wednesday morning between 08:30-9 AM. We will also meet in person for prayer on Wednesday the 28th of February and Wednesday the 20th of March – these prayer meetings will be at the church office starting at 18:00 (6 PM). 

Let’s look to God with eager expectation for what he might do in and around us this season!

Read about Lent at ucclife.fi/lent

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

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 Ottosone (for morning service volunteering) or Miriam Brown (for evening service volunteering).

Meaningful Membership at UCC

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

If you are an Espoo-attender, 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 this class HERE.

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

Become a Disability Buddy

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!

Getting 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!

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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