What are Weekend Camps?
We’re hosting two Weekend Camps this program year!
One will be October 12-13, 2024 and the other will be April 12-13, 2025.
Each camp will last throughout the day on Saturday, and the afternoon on Sunday.
The camps will be hosted at the Fellowship, and will have three options running concurrently:
- Two options for learning and connection will be available to adults
- One option will be for children
The goals of the camp are:
- Provide a longer, more concentrated amount of time for people to connect with each other, make new friends, have fun, and feel connected to the Fellowship.
- Provide an opportunity for learning, deepening our understanding of ourselves and our values, and exploring what it means to be UU.
- Spend some time all together — all three “track” options will spend mealtimes and some “centering” time each day together, and also spend time focusing on the person’s preferred area of learning.
IMPORTANT INFO:
Camp Times:
- Saturday, October 12 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Sunday, October 13 – (After services) 12:00 to 3:00 pm
Food:
- Saturday, we will provide a light breakfast
- There will be a time both days to enjoy our BYO lunch together
- There will be snack breaks both days
Fee:
$40 per person (adult or child) .
Free for those adults who are ONLY volunteering as leaders or helpers in the adult or kids camp.
Fee includes light breakfast, snacks, camp materials, and a t-shirt.
Financial assistance is always available. Please email Rev. Christina if you would like to be considered for a lower-cost or no-cost camp registration. Requests will remain confidential.
Deadline for Registration:
September 22, 2024
Details About the Weekend Camps
October 12- 13 – Our Values Take Flight
In the spirit of our newly approved UUA Values, we will “soar” like JETPIG (with Love at the center, JETPIG = Justice, Equity, Transformation, Pluralism, Interdependence, and Generosity).
Saturday we’ll have a light breakfast together and both days will have a chance to eat our BYO lunch together. There will be centering time together as a whole community, and then we’ll break into our “tracks” for focused learning and connection time.
TRACK 1 – Adult – Exploring Our Values
Join Rev. Christina and the “Three M’s” – Margaret Alexander, Mary Ellyn Vicksta, and Mike Yonkers for a deeper dive into what it is that you believe. Unpacking our theology, exploring our morals and values, and learning different ways to think about beliefs can help us live our lives in deeper, more meaningful ways. One of the goals of the Exploring Our Values track will be to begin writing (or completely write) a Credo statement. A credo is a statement of what an individual believes about the big questions– life, death, meaning, purpose, theology, and how to be good. If you have ever attended a “This I Believe” service, you have heard people’s credos.
The three sections of this track will be:
- What is theology, and what is my theology?
- What are UU values, and what are my values?
- What do I “know in my heart”? — Credo writing
TRACK 2 – Adult – Living Our Values
Join Rev. Hannah for a Fellowship retreat learning track about Living Our Values! This is for anyone who wants to deepen their skill-set around carrying our UU values out into the world, whether you think of yourself as an “activist” or just a person trying to do good in the world, whether as a volunteer or a professional.
The three sections of this track will be:
- Building Relationships Across Difference
- Thinking Strategically
- Sharing Our UU Values through Activism
TRACK 3 – Kids – Our Values Take Flight
Join Ms. Kim, Rev. Christina, and a flight-school of wonderful adult volunteers to explore our UU values, learn about pigs and rockets and flight, practice the JETPIG song, play cooperative games, learn more about what it means to be UU, and more.
There will be groups for kids ages 4-6, and separate groups for ages 7-10. We will interact with other groups, but we will also spend focused time in our groups as a team, creating a mascot and a cheer, and creating relationships with the others in our team.
Kids over the age of 10 can either help out in the camp or attend the adult tracks.
** IF YOU ARE WILLING TO HELP OUT, PART OF THE TIME OR ALL OF THE WEEKEND, AS AN ADULT VOLUNTEER AT THE KIDS CAMP, PLEASE LET MS. KIM KNOW AND COMPLETE THE ADULT CAMP REGISTRATION FORM **
