Winter Family Camp

Winter Family Camp

Registration is now open for Winter Elementary Family Camp at de Benneville Pines over President’s Day Weekend. Imagine all the fun of our beloved camp, but now with snow! This camp is for children in kindergarten through sixth grade and their families. Children in second grade and older are welcome to stay in independent counselor cabins. This year’s camp will have a Superhero Academy theme to add to the fun. Academy curricula take place inside and out across our campus, and youth and families will have plenty of time to socialize, including at kid-focused worship services. There will even be a creativity space in the lodge where campers can accessorize their super persona or just have fun. Sledding, snow play, and other winter activities are often highlights at this wonderful weekend of wintertime fun. Study (and play) hard to become the very best version of yourself surrounded by the beauty of the forest in winter and share a cup of super serum (aka hot chocolate) with friends old and new at the toasty lodge fireplace.

Winter camp is the perfect way to spend quality time with the family, as well as allow children the opportunity for personal growth and foster independence. Eight children and four adults from OCUUC attended last year, and it would be great to have even more this year! Thanks to the generosity of our Share the Plate donors, all members and their children will be reimbursed 50% of the camp registration fee by the OCUUC camp scholarship fund. So don’t wait – register now!


Karen Magoon Pearson is Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church's Director of Religious Education.