Worship and Spiritual Life

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

  • Call for Materials! We need your help!

    The Worship and Spiritual Life Team is collecting materials for several congregational-wide projects as we begin Lent.  Please help us collect the following in the next few weeks: We will have boxes in the narthex to receive your items! Thank you very much.  If you have questions, please contact Jean W. or the church office.

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  • Walking in the Wilderness: Seeking God during Lent - A small group experience

    Into the Wilderness: Lenten Small Groups February 19 – March 21

    This Lent, join with an intentional small group, reading and practicing together with the resource Walking in the Wilderness: Seeking God during Lent by Beth Richardson.  Groups will be offered throughout the week, at various times, both in person and online, but we ask you to join and stay with one group throughout the season.…

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  • End of the Year Thank You!

    Thank you to the angels who swooped in after the Advent 4 service Christmas Eve morning to change all the sanctuary and foyer decor from blue to the colors of Christmas IN RECORD TIME. Your gifts of time and talent were invaluable:  Amelia Tallman, Bob Heffner, Nancy Marmot, Jennifer Copley, Judith Holloway, Brad Herron, Terri…

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