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 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...
Summer Worship Series II, August 2-30, 2020
A World Together In our church covenant, we pray “to reject the false gods of society.” Perhaps since the Enlightenment, the consequent modern culture shift in the West has tragically polarized toward excessive individualism, thereby neglecting community consciousness...
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...
Hunger Outreach
Food Packing Update For many years now, UCUCC families have come together once a month to bag food for the Emergency Feeding Program (EFP) where people experiencing food insecurity can access nutritious food for themselves and their families. This work is overseen by...
“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...
As I See It
Layered Time Memorial Day weekends, when my young granddaughter visited at our Hood Canal cottage, we attended the Quilcene Garden Club plant sale, where Greta had twenty-five cents to buy a tiny, unnamed seedling we would plant together. Last week I texted her a...
Seabeck All Church Summer Camp to be held online—July 5-10, 2020
With the current reality that we cannot gather in large groups, the Seabeck Planning Committee has begun figuring out how to adapt our camp traditions to a virtual format. We think it may be a very important time for our church to come together in the midst of this...
UCUCC Members and Friends at Horizon House Stay Connected via Zoom
Carolyn Stark has been the organizer for monthly meetings of UCUCC members and friends at Horizon House for some time. They stopped when we were quarantined to our rooms. At that point, Annemarie Godston offered to arrange for Zoom meetings. To date, 15 UCUCCers who...
Music Director Search
An Update ~Betty Spieth-Croll, Worship and Music Committee Even as we express our heartful thanks to Heidi Wyllis Blythe for her devoted service as our Music Director, our attention turns to filling the opening Heidi’s departure leaves. Earlier this year when we...
A Note from Heidi Blythe, Director of Music
Music at University Congregational United Church of Christ has carried us through times that are tragic, celebratory, mundane, both as church and as individuals. And so in some ways, this time of pandemic and social distancing is no different than any other. And yet,...
Pastoral Search Committee work is underway
Spring 2020 ~Tim Croll and Virginia Felton, Search Committee Co-chairs The work of the church-member committee to call a new pastor began about a month ago, after the appointment of the committee by Church Council. The committee is now meeting weekly via Zoom. The...
Spiritual Balancing in the Time of Covid-19
For All of Us — Since We Cannot Physically Attend Church I've been exploring ways to use spiritually-based techniques to stay healthy during this time of our lives. Here are some of my favorites. I hope they are helpful for you. Pray or Meditate - Being silent for a...
Birth Announcement
Evangeline Pax Johnson Born: May 3, 2020 Welcome to the world Evangeline! Evangeline was born early Sunday morning. Delighted parents are Ashleigh & Tim Johnson! She weighed 7lbs 2oz and was 20” long. Evangeline joins her big brother Apollo. Blessings as the...
UCUCC building use during the pandemic
What does it mean to be “essential”? While we gather digitally for worship, fellowship, and church business, our UCUCC building is serving those whose work has been deemed essential by state and local governments. Several vital programs such as Teen Feed, the Child...
Council Meeting Summaries February, March & April 2020
February ¨ Approved the minutes of the January 20 Council Meeting and Minutes of January 29, 2020 Email Meeting ¨ Reviewed Financial and Leadership reports ¨ Approved an AIR Form to affirm the adoption of a new leadership model as recommended by the Staffing Proposal...
A statement and a Call with those protesting the murder of George Floyd
A Statement and a Call In solidarity with those protesting the murder of George Floyd; we call for the dismantling of systemic racism in our country Last year our congregation adopted a resolution calling for us to be a Racial Justice Church. In that resolution...
Spiritual Balancing in the Time of Covid-19 – part one
For all of us... Since We Cannot Physically Attend Church I've been exploring ways to use spiritually-based techniques to stay healthy during this time of our lives. Here are some of my favorites. I hope they are helpful for you. Pray or Meditate...
Dutch Baby Pancakes – video and recipe
Missing breakfasts at UCC? Here is a video by one of our beloved Sunday morning breakfast crew, Elizabeth Walkup. You can learn how to make delicious Dutch Babies yourself, and see if yours live up to your memories! [arve...
Strengthening our care for one another
We are deeply moved by the ways we continue to be church in spite of the fact that we cannot gather together. In this time of isolation, we are still living out our covenant, as we develop new ways to worship together, to pray for and care for one another, to promote...
Summer Spiritual Practice: Backyard Ecology
The poet Wendell Berry says: “Because we have not made our lives to fit Our places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded, The streams polluted, the mountains overturned. Hope Then to belong to your place by your own knowledge Of...
Summer Worship Series June 7-July 26, 2020
Within God’s Creation In our church covenant we state our longing to live sustainably within God’s creation. Leading into and out of our “Seabeck Week” and it’s theme Earthkeeping: A Christian Call to Care for Creation, this worship series will engage us in the work...
A note from your Pastors
Beloved Community, We are church, and we are essential. As we have been hearing questions over this last week, about when the church might “reopen,” we want to be clear. Our church has never been closed. In this time of limited physical gathering, we have continued to...
Death announcements, Spring 2020
Richard Babcock Born: October 11, 1929 Died: February 28, 2020 We received notice that former member, Richard, died in February. He had been a tenor in the choir for many years and their family enjoyed attending Seabeck Church Camp. Brian Cleworth Born: May 14, 1924...
A note from your Pastors
Dear Friends, Grace and peace to you all. This week, as we are noticing the lengthening arcs of pandemic predictions, we are also noticing many layers of transitions. We made a relatively quick transition in March from our business as usual to working and meeting...
A note from your Pastors
Greetings Beloved Community, As we enter week ten of our “stay home, stay safe” time, we are continuing to hold one another in our hearts and in our prayers. This is a difficult time for all. And in this time when everything seems changed, some things remain clear. In...
Shepherding the Seasons; Stories from a Life With Two Flocks
Hello Church. While we have been watching for lambs, I also have been watching for the release of my book! It’s called Shepherding the Seasons; Stories from a Life With Two Flocks, and the two flocks, of course, are my Whidbey Island sheep, and you- the UCUCC...
A note from your Pastors
Beloved Congregation, 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...
Introducing the formation of the Amy Roon Lilly Grant Sabbatical Committee
“I Am Because We Are: A Journey Toward Belonging” In recent months, a group has formed to support Pastor Amy Roon as she lives into her vision for the sabbatical our pastoral leadership is eligible for every five years. Her dream, building for years but newly enriched...