ESL (English as a Second Language) Conversation classes at Irvine UCC from IUCC’s DEI Committee

Every Wednesday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Free!

Click Here to Sign Up!

We are offering weekly classes where English learners can improve their English skills by having real-life conversations in a caring and supportive environment. We hope that these English conversation classes will help all neighbors overcome language and cultural barriers and empower everyone to live out their lives with greater confidence and success. At the same time, the IUCC community will be enriched and strengthened as we show God’s love for our neighbors in practical ways. These classes will serve as an opportunity to learn about each other’s cultures, connect with each other and form meaningful relationships.

We need the help of IUCC members to spread the word out about these classes to the community. Please forward the above flyer to your friends, neighbors, and others in your social network.

Anyone who’s interested in coming to the FREE class can sign up online using the QR code or click here to sign up. To access the flyer in your preferred language, click here: English, Chinese,

Flyer Versions (with QR code):
English
Español
中文

DEI will be discussing the PBS Documentary:  Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History.  Episode 1: "Let My People Go" (video link)

Please email us at deibookclub@iucc.org for the Zoom Link all future updates. See you soon!

Calling all parents and guardians! The Parents Comma Group is meeting on 2nd Sundays and sharing a meal together over lunch.

Childcare is provided at IUCC!

Adults - meet at the tables at the Woodbridge Village Center

💒 Special Collection Offerings on Sunday, March 15 🌏

On Sunday, March 15, we will be collecting for One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) where we live out our covenant with the wider Church in shared ministry, compassion, and hope.

For more than 75 years, One Great Hour of Sharing has helped Christians bring God’s hope and healing with trusted local and global partners to

🌪️Respond to disasters and humanitarian crises

🍞Support development work and fight poverty

🧳Assist refugees and displaced families

⚖️Advocate for justice and dignity

 Learn more about One Great Hour of Sharing:

 https://www.ucc.org/giving/ways-to-give/our-churchs-wider-mission/one-great-hour-of-sharing/

Donate during the OGHS collection, mail a check, or give online. Write “OGHS” in the memo so we make sure your gift is correctly directed!

Thank you for your generosity and for being part of this love offering to the world. 

Whoever you are, wherever you are on your faith journey, you are WELCOME here!

We offer two Sunday services: a Traditional Service at 9:30 a.m. and a Contemporary Service at 11:15 a.m. Adult Sunday School is offered during the 11:15 a.m. service. The traditional service features our amazing Chancel Choir singing wonderful anthems tied to the morning’s theme. The contemporary service is more casual, led by an energetic praise group composed of our choral interns. We welcome you to come as you are and dress according to your personal style.

Sunday services typically include: information about church events, music, prayer, meditation, and a message from the pastor. We celebrate communion on the first Sunday of each month, and everyone is welcome to partake. Our services are also streamed live on Facebook.

Calling all supportive adults - parents, guardians, family members, and loving friends - of Rainbow Kids!

🏳️‍🌈🌟🏳️‍⚧️

OCEC has launched an LGBTQ+ Parent Support Group in partnership with Irvine United Congregational Church (IUCC), an open and affirming congregation for over 30 years. Although the group will meet on the IUCC campus, it is not a religious group.

This peer-led support group offers a space where parents can connect with others on similar parenting journeys. It's a place to share joys and frustrations, swap tips and resources, ask questions, and build a vibrant, supportive community.

We welcome all parents, guardians, family members, and loving friends. During meetings, we will also provide a dedicated space for kids, staffed by caring adults.
The group meets regularly on the 3rd Sunday of each month.   Please reach out to Myrna Bohan -myrnabohan@gmail.com to RSVP and for meeting time and location. 

✍️Great American Write-In
Make your voice heard⚖️

Delhi Community Center, 505 E Central Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92707

Saturday, March 14,2026, 9:30 AM-1:30 PM

The Great American Write-In is a free annual community event that gives everyday people a powerful way to influence public policy. More than 60 organizations and advocacy groups will be on hand sharing information about some of today’s most pressing issues, including education, health care, human and civil rights, and the environment.

Participants move from table to table, learn about the issues, and then take action by writing letters and postcards to government and corporate decision-makers in the hope of creating meaningful change. In past years, as many as 550 visitors have generated more than 4,250 pieces of mail in a single day.

IUCC’s Advocates for Peace and Justice and our DEI Ministries will have a table at the event. Please stop by, say hello, and sign or write a few letters. It’s a simple but powerful way to help change the world.

Monthly Prayer Group – All Are Welcome

Join us on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 PM in the Peace Room for a time of shared reflection and spiritual practice. At IUCC, we believe in the power of prayer—and we recognize that it looks different for everyone. This group is open to all and offers a space to explore a variety of ways to pray, whether through silence, words, movement, or stillness. Together, we seek a deeper, conscious connection with the Sacred—something greater than ourselves.

No experience necessary. Just come with an open heart.

ESL (English as a Second Language) Conversation classes at Irvine UCC from IUCC’s DEI Committee

Every Wednesday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Free!

Click Here to Sign Up!

We are offering weekly classes where English learners can improve their English skills by having real-life conversations in a caring and supportive environment. We hope that these English conversation classes will help all neighbors overcome language and cultural barriers and empower everyone to live out their lives with greater confidence and success. At the same time, the IUCC community will be enriched and strengthened as we show God’s love for our neighbors in practical ways. These classes will serve as an opportunity to learn about each other’s cultures, connect with each other and form meaningful relationships.

We need the help of IUCC members to spread the word out about these classes to the community. Please forward the above flyer to your friends, neighbors, and others in your social network.

Anyone who’s interested in coming to the FREE class can sign up online using the QR code or click here to sign up. To access the flyer in your preferred language, click here: English, Chinese,

Flyer Versions (with QR code):
English
Español
中文

Whoever you are, wherever you are on your faith journey, you are WELCOME here!

We offer two Sunday services: a Traditional Service at 9:30 a.m. and a Contemporary Service at 11:15 a.m. Adult Sunday School is offered during the 11:15 a.m. service. The traditional service features our amazing Chancel Choir singing wonderful anthems tied to the morning’s theme. The contemporary service is more casual, led by an energetic praise group composed of our choral interns. We welcome you to come as you are and dress according to your personal style.

Sunday services typically include: information about church events, music, prayer, meditation, and a message from the pastor. We celebrate communion on the first Sunday of each month, and everyone is welcome to partake. Our services are also streamed live on Facebook.

ESL (English as a Second Language) Conversation classes at Irvine UCC from IUCC’s DEI Committee

Every Wednesday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Free!

Click Here to Sign Up!

We are offering weekly classes where English learners can improve their English skills by having real-life conversations in a caring and supportive environment. We hope that these English conversation classes will help all neighbors overcome language and cultural barriers and empower everyone to live out their lives with greater confidence and success. At the same time, the IUCC community will be enriched and strengthened as we show God’s love for our neighbors in practical ways. These classes will serve as an opportunity to learn about each other’s cultures, connect with each other and form meaningful relationships.

We need the help of IUCC members to spread the word out about these classes to the community. Please forward the above flyer to your friends, neighbors, and others in your social network.

Anyone who’s interested in coming to the FREE class can sign up online using the QR code or click here to sign up. To access the flyer in your preferred language, click here: English, Chinese,

Flyer Versions (with QR code):
English
Español
中文

Join the DEI book and film club as we discuss Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart (https://amzn.eu/d/9IZyYqL)

Here is our reading schedule:

Feb 24        A Note to My Former Friend, Prologue: We need a new story, and Chapters 1-2, Pages 3-54

March 3      Chapters 3-4, Pages 55-96 

March 10    Chapter 5, Pages 97-121 and please also watch this conversation between journalist Karen Attiah and author Peter Beinart from Poetry and Prose:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBwLLJM1EGw

Email deibookclub@iucc.org for the Zoom Link and for other future updates. See you soon!

🕊️We’re demonstrating for peace and protesting the US strikes against Iran

Bring a candle, signs or symbols of peace to the corner of Alton and Culver 🕯️

In war, we all lose: in a world full of noise, let peace be our loudest voice

Calling all Young Adults for Sacred Sunday: Brunch & Belonging

March 1st at 12:30pm

The first Sunday of every month, YAs will be meeting at the Woodbridge Village Center for brunch as an extension of Communion. Come chill and make connections in a fun and welcoming space!

Calling all elementary school kids! - During second service Sunday School this week, we will walk to the Woodbridge Village Center and enjoy a sweet treat. We will leave toward the end of coffee hour and return at the end of second service. Make sure to bring money for a treat!

First Sunday of Lent

All are welcome!

We offer two Sunday services: a Traditional Service at 9:30 a.m. and a Contemporary Service at 11:15 a.m. Adult Sunday School is offered during the 11:15 a.m. service. The traditional service features our amazing Chancel Choir singing wonderful anthems tied to the morning’s theme. The contemporary service is more casual, led by an energetic praise group composed of our choral interns. We welcome you to come as you are and dress according to your personal style.

Sunday services typically include: information about church events, music, prayer, meditation, and a message from the pastor. We celebrate communion on the first Sunday of each month, and everyone is welcome to partake. Our services are also streamed live on Facebook.

Join us for an Inclusive, Artistic, Embodied Worship with Community

✨The Gospel Project presents ✨
Holy Ground: Disabled Voices, Sacred Stories
📆Saturday, February 28, 2026

As part of The Gospel Project, Holy Ground: Disabled Voices, Sacred Stories invites us into an evening shaped by disabled lives, stories, and spiritual insight. This gathering centers voices too often excluded or sidelined in faith spaces, lifting them up as sacred witnesses whose stories deepen and transform how we understand God, community, and ourselves.

🍽️We begin with a shared meal at 5:30pm, followed by the worship gathering at 7:00pm. As always with The Gospel Project, the table comes first. Community is formed through food, conversation, and presence before we move into music, storytelling, scripture, and prayer.

🎶📖We are honored to welcome the return of the Peppermint Ridge Choir, whose music reflects joy, dignity, and deep community, embodying what it looks like when belonging is practiced and every voice is invited to participate fully. The evening will also feature Rev. Erin Beardemphl, whose pastoral and theological work alongside the Peppermint Ridge community invites the Church to listen more carefully to disabled experience as a source of spiritual truth and theological insight.

💃🏼🎭We are also honored to welcome Straight Up Abilities, an inclusive performing arts organization where artists of all abilities learn, create, and perform together. Through dance, theater, and expressive movement, their work centers access, dignity, and joy, reminding us that creativity is a shared language and that the Spirit moves most freely when every body is invited into the dance.

🎤Our keynote speaker, joining us from St. Louis, is Rev. Barbara “Bobbie” Blunt, an itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and Pastor of Buren Chapel A.M.E. Church in Herculaneum, Missouri. A seasoned pastor, chaplain, and community healer, her ministry bridges pulpit, hospital, and street-level outreach, grounded in embodied care, justice, and the sacred worth of every person.

🎵We are also honored to welcome Marleena Barber, a vocalist, cabaret artist, educator, and disability advocate whose work is shaped by lived experience. Her artistry offers audiences a powerful encounter with creativity, presence, and the sacred textures of disabled life.

🌱Joining the lineup is Helena Donato-Sapp, a young artist, poet, and disability justice advocate whose work centers intersectionality, embodiment, and belonging. Through her creative voice and public witness, Helena challenges ableism and invites communities to listen more deeply to disabled wisdom.

🕯️Through music, testimony, scripture, and theatrical storytelling, the night explores how God is revealed through bodies and minds that move through the world differently. Rather than asking how disability can be cured or overcome, this gathering asks what disabled life reveals about God, belonging, and grace.

🤍This evening affirms a simple truth: every embodied life speaks of God. Difference becomes a teacher without being demanded. Access becomes a spiritual practice rather than an afterthought. Community becomes the place where all are seen, heard, and welcomed at the table.

♿This gathering is planned with accessibility and multiple ways of participation in mind. ASL interpreters and childcare will be available.

👉 RSVP for the FREE event here:

https://forms.gle/frZT2ccTW1Hv6gZY7 

Calling all young adults ~ Each young adult should bring their own book, audiobook, or podcast and we will silently read together for an hour. Then, we will spend time together sharing what our books are about what we've learned!

Meeting at Hola Adios Coffee Shop in Tustin.

ESL (English as a Second Language) Conversation classes at Irvine UCC from IUCC’s DEI Committee

Every Wednesday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Free!

Click Here to Sign Up!

We are offering weekly classes where English learners can improve their English skills by having real-life conversations in a caring and supportive environment. We hope that these English conversation classes will help all neighbors overcome language and cultural barriers and empower everyone to live out their lives with greater confidence and success. At the same time, the IUCC community will be enriched and strengthened as we show God’s love for our neighbors in practical ways. These classes will serve as an opportunity to learn about each other’s cultures, connect with each other and form meaningful relationships.

We need the help of IUCC members to spread the word out about these classes to the community. Please forward the above flyer to your friends, neighbors, and others in your social network.

Anyone who’s interested in coming to the FREE class can sign up online using the QR code or click here to sign up. To access the flyer in your preferred language, click here: English, Chinese,

Flyer Versions (with QR code):
English
Español
中文

Calling all parents and guardians! The Parents Comma Group is meeting on 2nd Sundays and sharing a meal together over lunch.

Childcare is provided at IUCC!

Adults - meet at the tables at the Woodbridge Village Center

First Sunday of Lent

All are welcome!

We offer two Sunday services: a Traditional Service at 9:30 a.m. and a Contemporary Service at 11:15 a.m. Adult Sunday School is offered during the 11:15 a.m. service. The traditional service features our amazing Chancel Choir singing wonderful anthems tied to the morning’s theme. The contemporary service is more casual, led by an energetic praise group composed of our choral interns. We welcome you to come as you are and dress according to your personal style.

Sunday services typically include: information about church events, music, prayer, meditation, and a message from the pastor. We celebrate communion on the first Sunday of each month, and everyone is welcome to partake. Our services are also streamed live on Facebook.

🎲 Games & Grub Social 🎯

♟️Join us for a relaxed, joyful evening of board games, card games, and good food. Bring your favorite game or just show up ready to play. All ages are welcome, and friends are encouraged to come along.

📆Friday, February 20 at 6:30pm

📍 Plumer Hall at IUCC

Come for the games. Stay for the community.

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Drive-Thru Ashes

7:00pm - Ash Wednesday Service

Lent is a time for reflection, renewal, and drawing closer to the heart of God—a season not of shame, but of grace; not of scarcity, but of deepening faith. In our progressive Christian community, we embrace this season as an opportunity to listen, to question, and to walk together in love. With open hearts and open minds, we journey to discover where God’s Spirit is leading us next.

ESL (English as a Second Language) Conversation classes at Irvine UCC from IUCC’s DEI Committee

Every Wednesday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Free!

Click Here to Sign Up!

We are offering weekly classes where English learners can improve their English skills by having real-life conversations in a caring and supportive environment. We hope that these English conversation classes will help all neighbors overcome language and cultural barriers and empower everyone to live out their lives with greater confidence and success. At the same time, the IUCC community will be enriched and strengthened as we show God’s love for our neighbors in practical ways. These classes will serve as an opportunity to learn about each other’s cultures, connect with each other and form meaningful relationships.

We need the help of IUCC members to spread the word out about these classes to the community. Please forward the above flyer to your friends, neighbors, and others in your social network.

Anyone who’s interested in coming to the FREE class can sign up online using the QR code or click here to sign up. To access the flyer in your preferred language, click here: English, Chinese,

Flyer Versions (with QR code):
English
Español
中文

We come together as a church to weigh on matters of our church

When - 10:30am between first and second service

Where - Hybrid - in the Sanctuary and Zoom (check e-blasts for info)

Together, we will vote to approve the 2026 budget and celebrate and exercise the power of congregational polity that makes our church community unique.

Click here for Zoom Info

Your voice and presence are vital as we set the course for the year ahead!

All are welcome as we honor Fat Sunday!

This Sunday we come together as ONE. Join us as we mark the last Sunday before Lent with joy, laughter, and a full heart. Fat Sunday is a beautiful threshold moment in the church year. We celebrate before we enter the reflective season of Lent. Pastor Sarah is also back from Sabbatical!

Come ready for warmth, community, and a spirit of celebration as we gather at the table and in worship.

The Congregational Meeting will then take place after the 9:30am service with Coffee Hour and Fellowship to follow.

Normally we offer two Sunday services: a Traditional Service at 9:30 a.m. and a Contemporary Service at 11:15 a.m. Adult Sunday School is offered during the 11:15 a.m. service. The traditional service features our amazing Chancel Choir singing wonderful anthems tied to the morning’s theme. The contemporary service is more casual, led by an energetic praise group composed of our choral interns. We welcome you to come as you are and dress according to your personal style.

Sunday services typically include: information about church events, music, prayer, meditation, and a message from the pastor. We celebrate communion on the first Sunday of each month, and everyone is welcome to partake. Our services are also streamed live on Facebook.

♥️✨Valentine’s Day Bingo✨♥️

Proudly presented by IUCC and hosted by Cucu Chanel and her Drag Queen Divas!

Buy Tickets : Here

This is one of our most joyful, over-the-top nights of the year. Whether you’re wildly in love, happily single, or showing up with a tender or broken heart, this is the perfect way to celebrate the holiday. Come as you are. Love in all its forms is welcome here.

Wear red and bring your Valentine spirit. Bold, sweet, sassy, or ironic. We love it all.

• 📆 Friday, February 13, 2026, 7:00 pm

• 📍 Irvine United Congregational Church - 4915 Alton Parkway, Irvine, CA 92604 – Plumer Hall

💵 $30 Entry Fee - includes access to all Bingo games and the show!

• 🎁GREAT PRIZES!

• 🎤GREAT PERFORMANCES!

• 🍽️GREAT FOOD & DRINK!

• 🖊️ Dobbers, 🍕food, and 🍹beverages will be available for purchase.

• ⚠️Must be 18+ to play

• 🔴Red attire encouraged (but not required!)

• 🚪Doors open at 6:30 pm – Limited capacity!

💝 Valentine-themed treats & surprises throughout the night! 💌

❓Questions? - Email Pastor Craig at iucc@iucc.org

Monthly Prayer Group – All Are Welcome

Join us on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 PM in the Peace Room for a time of shared reflection and spiritual practice. At IUCC, we believe in the power of prayer—and we recognize that it looks different for everyone. This group is open to all and offers a space to explore a variety of ways to pray, whether through silence, words, movement, or stillness. Together, we seek a deeper, conscious connection with the Sacred—something greater than ourselves.

No experience necessary. Just come with an open heart.

ESL (English as a Second Language) Conversation classes at Irvine UCC from IUCC’s DEI Committee

Every Wednesday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Free!

Click Here to Sign Up!

We are offering weekly classes where English learners can improve their English skills by having real-life conversations in a caring and supportive environment. We hope that these English conversation classes will help all neighbors overcome language and cultural barriers and empower everyone to live out their lives with greater confidence and success. At the same time, the IUCC community will be enriched and strengthened as we show God’s love for our neighbors in practical ways. These classes will serve as an opportunity to learn about each other’s cultures, connect with each other and form meaningful relationships.

We need the help of IUCC members to spread the word out about these classes to the community. Please forward the above flyer to your friends, neighbors, and others in your social network.

Anyone who’s interested in coming to the FREE class can sign up online using the QR code or click here to sign up. To access the flyer in your preferred language, click here: English, Chinese,

Flyer Versions (with QR code):
English
Español
中文