Logo with two wooden blocks, the text 'One Parish, One Prisoner' above the blocks, and 'Underground Ministries' below.
Logo for Low Income Housing Institute featuring mountain and house graphics.
Logo of University District Food Bank featuring a gray apple and text.
Silhouette of the Seattle skyline with the Space Needle, the city name 'Seattle' in stylized script, and 'est. 1993' below.
Line graph showing data points over time
Musalaha partnership logo.

For the neighborhood.

Illustration of a dragon with the words "TEAM 4 ELEMENTARY" underneath.
Black and white illustration of a fashion boutique storefront with mannequins and clothing displays.
Logo of New Horizons with a stylized horizon and a sun, in black and gray colors.
Logo for Compass Housing Alliance with a geometric design in black and white.
Logo of community services organization featuring a hand holding a flower within a circular design.
Logo of the Fred Hutch Cancer Center, featuring a stylized abstract design above the text 'Fred Hutch Cancer Center'

Union’s Partners

Our partnerships with local and international organizations are foundational to how we show up for the neighborhood.

Union is part of a mixed use space, with 415 Westlake and Kakáo Cafe being the other ways that we interface with the South Lake Union community. Each arm of the triad exists to seek the welfare and common good of the neighborhood through life-giving partnerships and by building relationships.

Whether it is a tutoring program for school-aged children, making and serving meals for housing insecure neighbors and families undergoing cancer treatment, or participating in a network of support for an individual being released from prison. Partnering with these organizations has a bidirectional influence: Union is blessed and changed by the people we develop relationships with, as we work together for the flourishing of all.

Multiple hands stacked together in a gesture of unity or teamwork.

From Lament to Hope

During COVID-19 isolation, Union Church looked outward to find ways to reconnect again. Once a week, the church made and distributed burritos to anyone who wanted one, as an opportunity to visit, socially distanced, with each other and come together for the common good.

Three beef and rice burritos wrapped in aluminum foil with cross sections showing rice, seasoned ground beef, tomatoes, lettuce, and green peppers.

In the Breaking
of Bread

Jesus is revealed to us “in the breaking of bread,” a lesson we have learned over and over during the years of ministry and partnership. Read this beautiful reflection (written during COVID-19) on how we as a community have been mutually affected by the ministry of food.