Worship and Spiritual Life is an Area Coordinating Team (ACT) at UCC Missoula. The Worship and Spiritual Life team promotes spiritual formation through worship, workshops, small groups and retreats and creates a welcoming atmosphere for visitors and newcomers.
- Worship
- With Pastor, chooses Worship/Seasonal Themes
- Recruits and trains liturgists
- Recruits and trains communion servers
- Creates arts and seasonal installations in Sanctuary/Foyer
- Helps Plan/Offer Special Services
- Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and others (Taize, Healing)
- Helps Plan/Offer Retreats and Workshops
- Day retreats and workshops as well as those held off-site
- Small groups especially during seasons of Advent and Lent
This is a great opportunity for people who like to explore things theologically or spiritually, help themselves and others to ‘go deeper’ spiritually, enable others to participate in one of the vital parts of the church, express themselves creatively, and see results almost weekly.
We meet, depending on pastoral needs, about four – five times a year to plan worship. We meet more frequently prior to hosting a retreat, workshop or planning small groups.
Visionaries meet to plan and install liturgical paraments per season (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Ordinary Time, Recovenanting, Harvest/Generosity)
News and Updates from Worship and Spiritual Life
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Special Youth Events during Lent
February 4 – February 18: Youth-led canned good drive, Middle School February 14: Youth are invited to attend the Ash Wednesday service March 3: Joint High School and Middle School outing March 24: Campfire and conversation for all youth (Middle School and High School) Our Church School children will be exploring finger labyrinths, among other…
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Into the Wilderness: Walk the journey of Holy Week 2024 with UCC
Sunday, March 24: Palm Sunday Palm Sunday worship at 10:00 am in the Sanctuary and online. Thursday, March 28: Maundy Thursday At 6:00 pm in the Fireside Room: dinner with Holy Communion. Please sign up to attend the dinner, which is a simple but served meal. At 7:15 pm in the Sanctuary: Tenebrae service. Tenebrae…
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Into the Wilderness: Ash Wednesday February 14, 2024
Enjoy a shared dinner (provided by the Congregational Connections ACT) and conversation with our congregation and the students at Emmaus Campus Ministry at 5:30 pm in the Fireside Room, followed by worship at 6:30 pm in the Sanctuary and online. With this service, we begin the season of Lent. We come to this service naming our…