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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Communion Sunday
Communion at UCC is shared at an open table, available to all. It is Christ who is the host and we are merely the facilitators of this holy, welcome-to-all meal. We want you to know that we take utmost care to prepare the elements so as many of you as possible can partake. In the…
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Advent Festival 2023
What a great festival we enjoyed to bring in the Advent season. Big thanks to the Green Team, the Faith Development Team, the Youth Group, the Congregational Connections Team and the Worship and Spiritual Life Team for all the fun and educational activities! Truly it takes a village and UCC Missoula does ‘villages’ well!
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Always Reforming (Reformation Sunday 2023)
For Reformation Sunday we put up a door and invited people to post their own thoughts and suggestions for ongoing reformation of our church. We received 36 responses and want to thank everybody who participated!