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 meet at 16:00 in downtown Helsinki – welcome! The main sanctuary is on the 3rd floor, coffee fellowship is held on the 2nd floor.
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
UCC Summer Season
We’ve put together a webpage that has all the latest updates and events for this summer season! Please visit ucclife.fi/summer for all the details.
Summer Sundays
From today (July 21) onwards, UCC Helsinki is back to normal schedules.
Summer Book Club
This summer we are excited to read through a book called “What is a Healthy Church Member”.
Our book club will take place on Wednesday evenings from 18:00-19:30, every Wednesday of July, at the UCC Office. ( July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 )
The book study will end on the last Wednesday of July, which will also be a church-wide prayer meeting (18-19:00, every last Wednesday of the month).
UPDATE: Finnish-language Bible study – now every week
Welcome to a new Finnish-language Bible study which will take place on four Sundays following our morning worship service. All Finnish-speakers are welcome, and childcare will be provided.
Starting on June 16th, the Finnish-language Bible study will meet every Sunday! Meetings are at 12:30 at the church offices (Valotalo, Matinkartanontie 13; enter from the corner nearest the roundabout / footbridge).
You can join at any time, you don’t need to have attended previous meetings! Tervetuloa kaikille!
Monthly Prayer Meeting:
Join us for our church-wide in-person prayer meeting at the UCC Offices (Matinkartanontie 13) on every last Wednesday of the month.
The next prayer meeting will take place on July 31st at 18:00, doors will be open from 17:45 and light refreshments will be available.
The conference room will be available for children/childcare. All are welcome. Contact Samuel Gandi with any questions.
Membership Class
Are you interested in learning about what it mean to be a covenant member of United Community Church?
We offer a standalone membership class (roughly 1 hour 15 min) which aims to give you all the information you need to decided if you want to become a member with us.
Classes are typically held immediately following the UCC Espoo worship service – the next one will be either end of July or early August. Stay tuned!
Contact any pastor for more details.
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.
Join the Disability Ministry Team
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!
Get 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!
Sunday Services at UCC
We are in a sermon series through Colossians. 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 Ottoson (for morning service volunteering) or Miriam Brown (for evening service volunteering).
Upcoming UCC Social Events
We have a WhatsApp group chat where we post all our Social events. Events are often also posted on the church website calendar, but the WA group is how you’ll stay most up to date.
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!
NOTE! Friday Morning Coffee is currently on summer break.
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!
