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
Building Bridges, Reaching Out, Making Harmony
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20140525-Service.mp3 Rosemary Morrison – Our second Unitarian principle calls us to compassion, our last principle reminds us we are connected to all existence. Connection with ourselves,
Peaceful Disobedience
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20140518-service.mp3 Betty Krawczyk – “What are the mental and spiritual processes involved in making decisions that may call for great self-sacrifice? Sacrifices that may lead to
Nurturing our Nature
Reverend Shana Lynngood – On this Mother’s Day we will look at the nurturing influences in our lives. How can we at every age and stage
Loving Kindness
Rev. Melora Lynngood Continuing with our preaching theme of “Living with Compassion,” we take a look at the Buddhist practice of “Loving Kindness” meditation, which
Our Place in the Family of Things
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20140427-service.mp3 Reverend Shana Lynngood and Faye Mogensen – This intergenerational service takes its title from the closing line of Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese. How do
Salvation for Unitarians?
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20130420-service.mp3 Reverend Melora Lynngood – We are Christians, Buddhists, Atheists, Spiritual Seekers, and more; this Easter Sunday, we take a look at the many concepts
RideShare: A Gift of Spirit
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20140413-service.mp3 RideShare: A Gift of Spirit – As we struggle with the multitude of challenges facing our planet today, we will do well to remember
The Wonder of Creation
Reverend Shana Lynngood and Faye Mogensen – In this inter-generational service we will begin a month focused on the Earth by looking at Creation stories.
The Transforming Power of Ritual
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20140330-service.mp3 Amanda Tarling – Meaningful rituals provide a conduit to deepen our connections and enrich us. They mark both the transient and permanent in the
Living with Compassion: The Larger Circle
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20140323-service.mp3 Reverend Shana Lynngood and Kristina Stevens – Our ties to the Canadian Unitarian Council: How does our congregation support the larger web and well-being
A Morning of Ekphrastic Poetry
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20140316-service.mp3 Anne Swannell – Ekphrasis is a rhetorical device which approaches one medium in terms of another, so … in this case, poetry that helps
Where’s the I in We? (11:30 a.m. service)
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20140309-service.mp3 Reverend Shana Lynngood – You have likely heard the adage there’s no “I” in team. In a community such as our church there are
Who Do You Say We Are?
Transcript of Sermon by Rev. Melora Lynngood, First Unitarian Church of Victoria March 2, 2014 Near the end of Jesus’s life, so the story goes, he
Spiritual Humanism
https://victoriaunitarian.ca/wp-content/uploads/20140223-service.mp3 Reverend Shana Lynngood – A year ago I preached a sermon entitled Spirituality for Atheists. This sermon could be seen as a companion piece