About Worship at UBC

Frederick Buechner writes that worship is about singing for God, creating things for God, and basically rejoicing in God and making fools of ourselves for God "the way lovers have always made fools of themselves for the one they love."

At UBC, our services of worship are sometimes rather formal and reverent, at other times bordering on holy chaos, but usually somewhere in between. It's hard to say if our worship is "traditional," "formal," "contemporary," "emergent," or whatever labels are out there. On any given Sunday it may be more one style than the other. Regardless, joyfulness and foolishness show up every Sunday as admittedly messy people laugh together, sing together, pray together, listen together, and give together ... with love for God and love for one another.

Our music leaders and guest artists include a wide array of local musicians sharing traditional hymns, modern worship songs, as well as folk, rock, blues, gospel, and R&B tunes that challenge, comfort, encourage, and inspire. To some this may seem foolish, but it sure fosters joyful diversity!