UNIVERSITY UNITARIAN CHURCH

Congregational Care

Congregational Care groups meet together to provide service and comfort to church members that may need extra support due to life events. Contact our Congregational Engagement Coordinator for more information about how to get involved. Needing pastoral care? Email our Care Team or the Rev. Victoria Poling.

Care Team

Working closely with the Rev. Victoria Poling, Associate Minister of Community Engagement, the Care Team is a group of skilled volunteers who accompany members and friends through life’s transitions and challenges by offering confidential support and care. From welcoming a newborn child into a family, to accompanying someone through cancer treatment, to walking with those in grief or other emotional distress, the Care Team supports individuals and groups alike. They offer tangible assistance—meals, professional referrals, and hospital visits—and act as a caring, listening presence. By doing so, we seek to strengthen our bonds of humanity and hope. You can reach the Care Team through our confidential 24-hour message line at (206) 454-7722 or email the team at care@uuchurch.org. A member of the Care Team is on call to respond to messages left on the Care Line and email inbox. Both are checked once or twice per day.

Memorial Reception Team

This team provides hospitality and care for memorials at UUC. The Memorial Reception Committee coordinator connects with families in advance of the memorial. The team organizes the reception and are there on the day of the memorial to support the family and friends of the deceased. This is a ministry of care, presence and cookies. If you would like to join the list of volunteers contacted when there is a memorial, please email the UUC office.

Common Threads

Common Threads is a multi-generational small group of knitters & crocheters who welcome others who do hand work of any kind. We share congenial conversation as our needles and hooks fly. We create shawls that the Care Team offers to those in need of comfort and baby blankets for new little ones at UUC, or work on our own personal creative projects. We have extra needles, hooks and yarn for those who want to give it a try, and Woobles(TM) kits for a discounted price for crocheting a small creature of your own!

Meetings: 4th Sundays from 1:15-3:15 pm in the Dix Room


Leaders: Leah Evison and Maylin Harnden-Fisher

Grief Support Group

In support of UUC’s mission to awaken spirit, nurture hope, and inspire action, the Care Team sponsors a support group for members and friends living with loss. All change is loss, whether the change was wanted or not. We let go of what was to step into what is. Note: This group is not open for drop-in. Contact the UUC office to be added to the waiting list.