Sacred Service Teams and Volunteering
Connect with Others While Strengthening and Supporting Your UCP Community
Building and Grounds
MISSION:
Together we create, maintain and enhance the beauty, upkeep and functionality of our physical environment.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
Building and grounds
- Assist in the care and organization of the building interior and exterior
- Help maintain grounds, parking lot, gardens
- Provide upkeep for outdoor sacred spaces
- Organize and promote quarterly community workdays
- Participate in workdays
- Help with special building and grounds projects
- Ensure that winter clean-ups and clearing occur as necessary
To join this Ministry or get more information, contact:
Stewardship Team
MISSION:
We joyously channel our divine, abundant resources to increase our community’s financial and social well-being. Our abundance allows us to spread UCP’s Mission and Vision deeply and broadly.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES (3 Separate Functions):
Fundraising
- Help organize or run fundraising events. Previous events have included
- Run 4 Peace, Silent Auctions, Concerts, Yard Sales, LoveFeasts, Pick-A-Party, GoFundMe campaigns,
New ideas welcome: Events, merchandise sales, corporate sponsored events classes/workshops offered inside and outside UCP
Financial
- Help create and/or promote a Legacy Giving Program
- Assist with annual Intentional Giving campaign
Member Engagement
- Reaches out to members and visitors, discovers individual talents and interests and encourages them to get involved.
- Identifies and coordinates special events. Encourages engagement
- Creates a buddy-system for new Members
- Member Appreciation: phone calls, cards, etc.
- Help organize Volunteer Appreciation
- Admin help: Breeze updates and calendar
To join this Ministry or get more information, contact:
Youth and Family Ministry (YFM)
MISSION:
As a spiritual youth community, we provide a safe place of love and acceptance where our teens and children have the opportunity to experience the awareness of their oneness with God and all of life, via age-appropriate activities. Our purpose is to create programs and experiences that invite the Divine potential in each individual to grow and expand.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
- Assist Youth Ed Director with the children upstairs on Sunday morning
- Youth Education Volunteer (share your talents and interests with youth upstairs on Sundays, i.e., songs, dances, etc.)
- Activities for fun and bonding (such as helping with Trunk or Treat)
- Community outreach locally and elsewhere
- Create and provide a teen program
To join this Ministry or get more information, contact:
LEARN MORE about our Youth and Family Ministry programs
Hospitality and Welcoming
MISSION:
We embrace our visitors and our members and friends with genuine caring in a warm and welcoming space. We provide a loving space for members and guests to get to know one another.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
Greeters
- Serve as a Sunday Greeter before the Service
- Name tags, programs, welcome packets, monthly calendar of events.
- Serve as usher during the service
- Be a friendly ambassador for UCP!
Post- Sunday Service Hosts
- Identify and connect with visitors and newer Sunday participants to ensure they feel welcome and to connect them with any additional resources if/as needed. Make sure they return their blue cards and receive a gift.
Kitchen Angels
- Kitchen Angels team is scheduled each week for set up & clean up
- Team sets up Fellowship refreshments (coffee, tea & food) for after service
- Schedules refreshment donations
- Help organize potlucks
To join this Ministry or get more information, contact:
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We've Got Your Back Team (WGYB)
MISSION:
Our mission is to be a training and resource center for the development of volunteer teams for persons with health concerns or other special needs in the UCP community.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
- Emergency Support for Congregants
- Provide food, transportation, or friendly visits to housebound congregants
- Run errands for housebound congregants
- Provide rides to and from UCP for congregants who don’t drive.
- Training available
To join this Ministry or get more information, contact:
LEARN MORE about We've Got Your Back
Outreach
MISSION:
We seek out and engage lovingly in care and enrichment for members of both our local and more distant communities.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
- Collect donations at UCP, such as:
- Food
- Warm clothing and blankets
- Diapers
- Books
- School supplies
- Personal care items
- Organize delivering collected items to the appropriate center
- Organize and participate in the Christmas Angel Tree program
- Organize UCP groups to volunteer at local outreach centers which might include diaper and food banks, shelters, IFC, the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association, and others
- Help organize and participate in agreed upon community events.
To join this Ministry or get more information, contact:
EarthCare
MISSION:
We shepherd UCP through our commitment and covenant to live consciously with our respect for the web of all life, and to live in such a way as to leave the smallest negative impact as possible on the planet.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
Assist in one more of the following activities:
- Promote and participate in our compost initiative. Maintain on a regular basis.
- Lead activities aiming to protect the climate, environment, and all living beings.
- Assist the Earthcare team in planning, carrying out and achieving goals for obtaining UCP’s ongoing certification from Unity Worldwide’s Earthcare Program.
- Help the Earthcare team by networking with other environmental groups in our local community.
- Help maintain and support the use of organic cleaning products and pest control for UCP
- Adapt a no-harm attitude to all living creatures inside and outside the UCP building and grounds
- Lead or participate in our quarterly Adopt-a-Hwy clean-up.
- Help with Earthcare focused Outreach activities.
To join this Ministry or get more information, contact:
LEARN MORE about UCP's Earthcare program
UCP Social Events Team
MISSION:
To create opportunities for the community to come together to relax, get to know one another better and have fun!
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
- Organize fun events that foster community cohesiveness
- Annual picnic at Jordan lake
- Quarterly Sunday potlucks
- Movie and concert nights
- Game nights
- Eno River outing
- Paperhand Puppet
- Trunk or Treat (coordinated with Youth Ministry)
- Dance parties
- New ideas are welcome
- wellness events?
To join this Ministry or get more information, contact:
Spiritual Education
MISSION:
We support our congregants in deepening their experience of the Divine Truth within and in awakening to their power as co-creators with Spirit.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
- Organize and/or lead book studies groups
- Help with Spiritual Enrichment and Education classes
- Spiritual Enrichment Week (several opportunities)
- Other spiritual classes, trainings or workshops
- Help promote classes via social media and flyer distribution,
- Facilitate a Sunday for Deeper Dive Discussion Group (Sunday’s after service discussion) (training available and recommended)
To join this Ministry or get more information, contact:
