Activities
Summer Camps at UUCoV:
June 30-July 4th 2025 (no camp on July 1 stat)
Camp for Youth:
Uniquely U: a radical inclusion camp
Camp for 5-10 years
Wonder Camp
Camps runs 9 am to 4 pm each day and is held on the beautiful Unitarian Universalist building and grounds on traditional WSAANEC territory.
Our camp divides into two groups: WONDER CAMP for youngers (5 to approx 10 years) and UNIQUELY U camp for young youth 10 to 16 years. Final grouping will be decided by camp directors depending on the # and age composition of who enrolls (and also by interest; we welcome your requests). We ask that all campers be of school age.
Cooking and eating lunch together will be a wonderful and special part of the camp experience. We also ask that you send a hearty snack with your child each day.
*** We will do our best to create lunches that everyone enjoys, and will also ask that campers be willing to try new foods. If your child/youth is particular in what they like to eat, please be prepared to send lunches from home as needed.
Each year our UU community participates in the Victoria Pride Parade, which happens this year on Sunday July 6. We warmly invite your family to join the fun! Please know that while UU parade leaders will be there to support, we cannot be officially responsible for your child at the parade– they must attend with a guardian who is ultimately responsible for their comfort and safety.
Camp fees are on a sliding scale basis of $100 – $200 for the week.
Past Activities
Pope Francis and Contemporary Catholicism
10:30 a.m. – Reverend Shana Lynngood – A look at the complex landscape of current Catholicism. In his short time as Pope, Francis has made a
What Is Your Ministry?
10:30 a.m. – Reverend Melora Lynngood – As Unitarian Universalists, we believe that every person has their own unique way of caring for this planet and those who
Seeds and Seasons: Feeding the Web of Life in Nepal and East Timor
10:30 a.m. – Kate Green – Unitarian Service Committee (USC) staff and farmers in Nepal are passing along wisdom and experience to the communities in Timor-Leste (East Timor).
Connections
10:30 a.m – Reverend Shana Lynngood and Faye Mogensen, Director of Spiritual Exploration for Children and Youth. As we begin a new theme – Connection: The Practice of
The Yearning of the Social Activist
10:30 a.m. – Reverend Melora Lynngood – Yearning is a familiar emotion for the social activist – yearning for peace, yearning for equity, yearning for a world
Modern Mysticism
The audio File is not available. Here are Shana’s notes:20150118 Modern Mysticism Sermon Notes 10: 30 a.m. – Reverend Shana Lynngood – As we continue our
Yearning
10:30 a.m. – Reverend Melora Lynngood – What do you yearn for? Which yearnings have led to deeper, more fulfilling living and which have led you away
Seeing with Fresh Eyes
10:30 a.m. – Dr. Paul Bramadat – What does it mean to say we live in a secular society, or that our political and legal
Story: Making Meaning of Life’s Experiences
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20141228-Service.mp3 10:30 a.m. — Oceanna Hall – Storytelling is as old as humankind. Before we could write, we told stories to try and make sense of
Solstice — Gifts of the Dark
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20141221-Service.mp3 10:30 a.m. — Reverend Shana Lynngood – As we mark the shortest day of the year we lift up the gifts of the dark. Often
Mid-Winter Pageant: A Mid-winter Tale
10:30 a.m. — Reverend Shana Lynngood, Faye Mogensen, Amalia Schelhorn – The children and youth celebrate the power of reaching out across faith groups. As part
Empowerment and the Art of Storytelling
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20141207-Service.mp3 Reverend Jane Bramadat – The ways in which storytelling can help or hinder our lives; how it can affect the way we feel about ourselves,
“True Self”?
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20141130-Service.mp3 Reverend Melora Lynngood – The challenge of bringing our authentic selves into community: What does it mean to be your ‘true self’? To what extent
What Do We Owe Each Other?
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20141123-Service.mp3 Reverend Shana Lynngood – We explore the vulnerability created by income inequality. As the poor get poorer and more people slip below the poverty threshold,
Outreach Alphabet Soup
Social Responsibility Coalition – We share and celebrate the many wonderful ways our church community reaches out to the wider community – locally, nationally and internationally.