Calendar of events
Here you will find all of our congregation’s Sunday Services, Board and Committee meetings and other events. Use the calendar controls to see events for past or future dates. For a quick look at recent Sunday Services, click here!
Part of our human condition is a longing for belonging. What does it mean to belong to a group, to a community or to this congregation? How do we derive purpose and greater meaning from life by joining a group?
Learn about the work of the Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees (VICCIR) that provides mental health services to any refugee and immigrants in Southern Vancouver Island that are survivors of extreme trauma.
Adrienne Carter is one of the founders of the Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees. She was born in Hungary and together with her parents escaped during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Having spent months in various refugee camps, they arrived to Canada in 1957. Adrienne completed her education at McGill University with a Masters in Social Work. She worked for many years in various parts of the Ministry both in Montreal and in Victoria. In 1999 she began working with Medecins Sans Frontier in addition to her job with Child/Youth Mental Health in Victoria. With MSF she completed 15 missions in various parts of the world. Then she joined the Centre for Victims of Torture where she was sent to Kenya to work with a Human Rights organization for one year and Jordan for 2.5 years to work as psychotherapist trainer to local Jordanian counsellors who in turn provided direct mental health work to thousands of Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
We have an ethical duty to future generations and to other species to leave the Earth in a better state than it is now. We also have an ethical duty to the rest of humanity to take no more than our fair share of the Earth’s biocapacity and resources. How do we re-establish a sense of reverence for nature, and once again see the spirit in nature? What does this mean for the place where we live, and what is the role of faith communities in bringing this about?
Trevor Hancock is a public health physician and a retired professor of public health. He was the first leader of the Green Party of Canada in the 1980s, and co-founded the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Locally he is leading the Conversations for a One Planer Region and writes a weekly column for the Times Colonist.
Jack of the Green is a figure in British folklore who is both male and female and who represents rebirth and the cycle of growth and is considered the keeper of the forest.
Jennifer Ferris, has been active as a storyteller for 30 years. She has performed in schools, community events, senior’s facilities, nature sanctuaries at festivals in Canada and USA. She gives workshops to adults, children, families and businesses.
Join us as we celebrate the tunes and traditions of midwinter!
Dana Lynn Seaborn is a retired CUUC chaplain with an interest in, well, pretty much everything.
What does it mean to be virtuous, and how does this goal manifest in our Unitarian Universalist principles? Which of the classical virtues match the UU principles, and which virtues have we abandoned? Let’s prepare for the year 2020 with 20/20 vision about virtue!
Peter Scales joined both of Victoria’s congregations when he moved here from Kingston in 2004. After 21 years as a federal servant he semi-retired to part-time work as a historian, philosopher and multi-uncle.
The Garden of Eden; Original Sin; the Abrahamic God: like a growing number of people in the world today, we Unitarian Universalists tend to regard these concepts as the product of ancient people trying to explain life’s great mysteries. Though imaginative and compelling, these accounts fall far from the mark, or so it would seem. Today, few among us give serious consideration to these ideas and the stories that birthed them, believing that they have little of value to offer us. But what if there is something of importance to be found in these myths and fables? What if, despite their lack of literal truth, these concepts nevertheless contain revelations that could help us better understand ourselves and the world at large? Join us as we explore these questions.
Ollie Belisle is a spiritual explorer and tour-guide whose goal is to open hearts and blow minds. Whether through his writing, YouTube channel, or daily conversations with friends, family, colleagues, and total strangers, he attempts to introduce new ways of looking at ourselves and our world in order to reveal the life-altering power of perspective.
Why is it that so many of us consider ourselves spiritual but not religious? What does that mean exactly? In this talk I will explore my own forays into Christianity, and how my own search for spiritual truth was at odds with my rational mind’s ultimate inability to accept the dogma of the Christian Church.
What is a ritual? A Jewish Universalist look at the neuroscience of rituals, and their role in community building, health, and grateful, astonished living.
In a world where there are so much is conditional, what we are all really looking for is unconditional love.
Dar is a member of the First Unitarian Church of Victoria and facilitates their Radical Welcome Group. They lead FUCV’s Spiritual Care Team at Our Place.
Long before humans invented religions, we looked with awe at the night sky, the changing seasons, the coming of the rains, and the beasts. Today some people refer to the pre-religious people as ‘pagan’ and yet many of us hold pagan-inspired beliefs related to ‘Christmas’ trees and ‘Easter’ eggs. What is paganism, and what is UU paganism? Come and learn!
