Small Groups
Check your Sunday bulletin, The CALL, and the Small Group Ministry bulletin board for information about other small group opportunities.
Art Club | Book Club | Bowtie Boyz | Evening Women's Group | Families Like Ours (LGBT Parents) | Food for Body/Soul | Prayer Circle | Prayer Shawl Ministry | Women's Fellowship | YouthTime
Art Club
Known as UUCC Unique Card Creations, the Art Club offers handmade greeting cards available for purchase after worship the first Sunday of each month. Proceeds from greeting card sales go to the general church budget. Art Club members work together, at church or at home, to create the cards by various means.
The Art Club is working on a new project that we hope will become an annual tradition—hand-made desktop calendars! Each calendar month is designed by a different artist using the art medium of choice. For 2010, these mediums include: fabric art, Japanese block print, painting, photography, rubber stamp art, and watercolors. Interested in designing a calendar month for 2011? Contact Ann Boes, ann.boes@urbucc.org
Regular work times are the 4th Sunday of each month from 1-4 pm. Come for part of the time or the whole time—and bring your own projects or just yourself and a smile. We'll find a project for you!! New members are always welcome! Contact Ann Boes.
Book Club
Love to read? Or talk about books? Please join us. We regularly meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. in the Urbandale Library cafe. Occasionally we meet in someone's home. Check The Call for current and upcoming featured books.
Bowtie Boyz
A men's group that meets to talk about our church, our community, our country, and our faith. We hold occasional Saturday morning breakfast meetings, to be determined. Contact Steve Rebelsky for more information.
Evening Women's Group
Open to all women at UUCC, we meet the 3rd Sunday of the month at 6 pm in members' homes. For more information, contact Linda Grathwohl, linda.grathwohl@urbucc.org, or Wendy Sontag at wendy.sontag@urbucc.org.
Families Like Ours: A Book Study/Social Networking Opportunity for LGBT Parents
Join us as we celebrate the blessings and challenges of being a LGBT parent! Our group will be studying the book, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is, by Abigail Garner. We will meet at Urbandale UCC every other Wednesday night from 6:15 until 7:30 pm, starting on September 9 and running through November 18. Childcare will be provided. The book is available at Beaverdale Books (2629 Beaver Avenue, phone 279-5400) for $12.56 plus tax. If you are interested in attending, please contact Laura Fefchak at laura.fefchak@urbucc.org.
Food for the Body, Food for the Soul
We gather monthly for a themed, gourmet potluck to feed the body. We also discuss a "spiritual" book to feed the soul. RSVP needed. Contact Randy Jedele, randy.jedele@urbucc.org, to get more info on this exciting group!
Prayer Circle
The Prayer Circle communicates by phone or email about prayer requests of the community. For more information, see the Caregiving Ministries page.
Prayer Shawl Ministry
We provide Prayer Shawls to people experiencing a difficult circumstance, such as a serious illness, recovery from major surgery, the loss of a loved one, or journey through a transitional period in life. For more information, see the Caregiving Ministries page.
Women's Fellowship
We provide not only fellowship for the women of the church, but also offer personal and spiritual growth. We also provides service to the church (e.g., collating The Call and getting it ready for mailing) and the wider community (e.g., a Birthday Party is held yearly for children at Moulton School). All women in the congregation are eligible for membership. We usually meet in the afternoon, the 2nd Wednesday of the month, September through May.
YouthTime
YouthTime gatherings are for youth in 9th-12th grade, to work on exciting projects or just to have fun together. Read more about YouthTime on the Youth page.