2025 Event Summary
Participants in a program, retreat, private stay and event
2025 Associate Membership
2025 Private Stay
A short get away, personal retreat or a restful overnight stay on your way through Sorrento, British Columbia! Book a stay at Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre - stay in one of our lodges, cozy cabins, cabanas, or campsites. Give our reservations desk a call at 1.866.694.2409. The grounds at Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre […]
2025 Week 2 Adult 19+: Stay and Play
Sorrento Centre
2025 Week 2 Adult 19+: Creative Journaling - Everyday Enchantment - Miracles in the Mundane
With Kathie MacDuff
Sorrento Centre
Here’s my simple definition of miracles: they are things that make our lives better than they would have been if they hadn’t happened. What makes them miraculous? That we take notice of them. This allows us to shift our focus onto the everyday happenings that constantly enrich our days. Oddly, because of Covid, I am […]
2025 Week 2 Youth Age 11-18: Active Adventures Program
With Mark and Nadja Hoath
2025 Week 2 Children Age 5-10: Program
Children’s Program for 5-10 years old: The children’s program will run Monday through Friday, 9:45 am – 12:20 pm. Our Summer Youth Staff Leader, Cameron Gutjhar, will work with the Recreation Coordinator to create a themed week of fun, high-energy activities and learning based on age, interest, and abilities!
2025 Week 2 Free Drop In Play Group - Ages 5 and under
Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre’s Free Drop-in Play Group Parents and caregivers are required to remain with their child. 9:40 am to 12:20 pm; Monday to Friday, July 21 – August 8, 2025 We welcome all parents and caregivers with children under 5 years old to our free drop-in Play Group facilitated by Sorrento’s Summer […]
2025 Week 2 Children Age 5-10: Stay and Play
2025 Week 2 Adult 19+: The Turbulent 2020s - A Midterm Report
With Bishop Anna Greenwood-Lee and Rev. Christine Conkin
Sorrento Centre
The 2020’s… we know how they started. How are they going? Climate crises. Racial reckonings. Institutional church decline. Trump is back. The future is uncertain. How does our theology help or hinder us as we navigate the turbulence of our times? How do we hold fast in communities of faith in these chaotic and changing […]
2025 Week 2 Young Adult 19-39 Endowment Fund
Sorrento Centre
B.C. Bishops Create Young Adult Endowment Fund for Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre! Be Enchanted: Young Adults (19 – 39 years of age) will receive $325 to be applied to your registration for one of the Four Weeks of Sorrento Programming in 2025! Select any program during July 20 – August 16, 2025 to receive […]
2025 Week 3 Adult 19+: Sacred Groves - Trees, Forest, and the Human Imagination
With Jason Brown
Sorrento Centre
2025 Week 3 Adult 19+: Stay and Play
Sorrento Centre
2025 Week 3 Youth Age 11-18: Adventures in Family Week Program
With Mark and Nadja Hoath
2025 Week 3 Children Age 5-10: Program
Children’s Program for 5-10 years old: The children’s program will run Monday through Friday, 9:45 am – 12:20 pm. Our Summer Youth Staff Leader, Cameron Gutjhar, will work with the Recreation Coordinator to create a themed week of fun, high-energy activities and learning based on age, interest, and abilities!
2025 Week 3 Children Age 5-10: Stay and Play
2025 Week 3 Free Drop In Play Group - Ages 5 and under
Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre’s Free Drop-in Play Group Parents and caregivers are required to remain with their child. 9:40 am to 12:20 pm; Monday to Friday, July 21 – August 8, 2025 We welcome all parents and caregivers with children 5 and under to our free drop-in Play Group facilitated by Sorrento’s Summer Youth […]
2025 Week 3 Adult 19+: Paint an Enchanted Journey
With James Hayes
Sorrento Centre
We are so beautifully and profoundly entangled with this earth and have the honour of cohabiting with it. We get to watch, in awe, it’s glimmers that brighten and enrich our journey. To be enchanted by its visual and soul-filled wonders is a blessing. We, as painters, will attempt to interpret and, in the most […]
2025 Week 3 Young Adult 19-39 Endowment Fund
Sorrento Centre
B.C. Bishops Create Young Adult Endowment Fund for Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre! Be Enchanted: Young Adults (19 – 39 years of age) will receive $325 to be applied to your registration for one of the Four Weeks of Sorrento Programming in 2025! Select any program during July 20 – August 16, 2025 to receive […]
Dine & Dance Under the Stars
1st Annual Dine & Dance Under the Stars The magic of Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre will be unveiled! Be captivated by our stunning backdrop, the shimmering Shuswap Lake. Enjoy a lush grassy carpet under your feet, the scent of roses on the evening breeze while a starlit tent welcomes you to dance the night […]
Dine & Dance Under the Stars - Single Ticket
Single Ticket $150
Dine & Dance Under the Stars - Table for 6
Table for six $900
Dine & Dance Under the Stars - Table for 8
Table for Eight $1,200
2025 Week 4 Adult 19+: Stay and Play
Sorrento Centre
2025 Week 4 Adult 19+: Knitting, Circles, and Stories
With Dr. Sylvia Olsen
Sorrento Centre
2025 Week 4 Youth Age 11-18: Adventure Odyssey
With Ven. Dr. Rob James and Jean James
2025 Week 4 Children Age 5-10: Program
Children’s Program for 5-10 years old: The children’s program will run Monday through Friday, 9:45 am – 12:20 pm. Our Summer Youth Staff Leader, Cameron Gutjhar, will work with the Recreation Coordinator to create a themed week of fun, high-energy activities and learning based on age, interest, and abilities!
2025 Week 4 Children Age 5-10: Stay and Play
2025 Week 4 Free Drop In Play Group - Ages 5 and under
Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre’s Free Drop-in Play Group Parents and caregivers are required to remain with their child. 9:40 am to 12:20 pm; Monday to Friday, July 21 – August 8, 2025 We welcome all parents and caregivers with children 5 and under to our free drop-in Play Group facilitated by Sorrento’s Summer Youth […]
2025 Week 4 Adult 19+: The Spirituality of Henri Nouwen: 4 ways to live as God's beloved
With Ver. Rev. Dr. Kyle Norman
Sorrento Centre
The Spirituality of Henri Nouwen: 4 ways to live as God’s beloved Henri Nouwen remains one of the most influential spiritual teachers of our time. A man of opposites, Nouwen was both Priest and Psychologist, Writer and Activist, Educator and Student. His ministry took him from the Ivy league halls of Yale and Harvard to […]
2025 Week 4 Young Adult 19-39 Endowment Fund
Sorrento Centre
B.C. Bishops Create Young Adult Endowment Fund for Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre! Be Enchanted: Young Adults (19 – 39 years of age) will receive $325 to be applied to your registration for one of the Four Weeks of Sorrento Programming in 2025! Select any program during July 20 – August 16, 2025 to receive […]
2025 - 5 Day Kid Camp - Age 6-12
2025 Johnston Family Reunion Lunch and Dinner Package
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Soup & Sandwich, Burger Bar, Appy Day, Fish & Chips, Taco Beef Dip, Beef Stew all served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Smoked Ham, BBQ Pork Back Ribs, Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Herb Roasted […]
2025 Johnston Family Reunion Dinner Only
Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Smoked Ham, BBQ Pork Back Ribs, Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Herb Roasted Chicken Pieces all served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea.
2025 Johnston Family Reunion Lunch Only
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Soup & Sandwich, Burger Bar, Appy Day, Fish & Chips, Taco Beef Dip, Beef Stew all served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea.
2025 Keith and Skyla Wedding Lunch and Dinner - Option 1
Lunch Friday and Saturday: 12:30-1:30 pm – Includes a main dish (such as soup & sandwich, chili, pot pie, samosa, mac & cheese etc.) served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Dinner Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 5:30-6:30 pm – Includes a hot entrée (such as chicken souvlaki, spaghetti and […]
2025 Keith & Skyla Dinner Only Package - Option 1
Dinner Thursday - Saturday: 5:30-6:30 PM – Includes a hot entrée (such as chicken souvlaki, spaghetti and meat sauce, beef bourguignon, meatloaf etc.) served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea. Wedding dinner included in package. Continental Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday included in packages.
2025 Keith & Skyla Wedding No Meals Option 1
Wedding Dinner included in your registration. Continental Breakfast not included
2025 Keith & Skyla Wedding No Meals Option 2
Wedding Dinner included in your registration. Continental Breakfast not included
2025 Keith & Skyla Lunch Only - Option 1
Lunch Friday and Saturday: 12:30-1:30 PM – Includes a main dish (such as soup & sandwich, chili, pot pie, somosa, mac & cheese etc.) served with a salad bar, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Wedding dinner included in cost. Continental Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday included in meal package.
2025 Keith & Skyla Wedding Lunch and Dinner - Option 2
Lunch Saturday: 12:30-1:30 pm – Includes a main dish (such as soup & sandwich, chili, pot pie, samosa, mac & cheese etc.) served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Dinner Friday, Saturday: 5:30-6:30 pm – Includes a hot entrée (such as chicken souvlaki, spaghetti and meat sauce, beef […]
2025 Keith & Skyla Dinner Only Package - Option 2
Dinner Friday - Saturday: 5:30-6:30 PM – Includes a hot entrée (such as chicken souvlaki, spaghetti and meat sauce, beef bourguignon, meatloaf etc.) served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea. Wedding dinner included in package. Continental Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday included in packages.
2025 Keith & Skyla Lunch Only - Option 2
Lunch, Saturday: 12:30-1:30 PM – Includes a main dish (such as soup & sandwich, chili, pot pie, somosa, mac & cheese etc.) served with a salad bar, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Wedding dinner included in cost. Continental Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday included in meal package.
2025 Keith & Skyla Wedding Dinner - Option 3
Keith and Skyla are excited to share in celebrating their nuptials with a wonderful wedding dinner. Please choose this option if you are just attending the wedding celebration Saturday and have not signed up for a meal package. Please feel free to book accommodation for the evening if you are needing a place to rest […]
2025 Creative Journaling: The Happy Class Tuesdays
With Kathie MacDuff
Creative Journaling: The Happy Class Tuesdays, 9 – 10:30 am PST/10 – 11:30 am MST September 9, 16, and 30; Oct. 7, 14, and 21, 2025 (No class Sept. 23) Cost: $75/six weeks Why do some people eat escargot? Because they don’t like fast food! Did you laugh? Compared to most children, adults spend less […]
2025 Creative Scrapbooking Fall Retreat
2025 Creative Journaling: The Happy Class Thursdays
With Kathie MacDuff
Creative Journaling: The Happy Class Thursdays, 6 – 7:30 pm PST/7 – 8:30 pm MST September 11, 18; Oct. 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2025 (No class Sept. 25) Cost: $75/six weeks Why do some people eat escargot? Because they don’t like fast food! Did you laugh? Compared to most children, adults spend less time […]
2025 Chicks By The Lake Quilting Retreat
2025 Walking towards enchantment: A pilgrim's way - Lunch and Dinner
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Soup & Sandwich, Burger Bar, Appy Day, Fish & Chips, Taco Beef Dip, Beef Stew all served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Smoked Ham, BBQ Pork Back Ribs, Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Herb Roasted […]
2025 Walking towards enchantment: A pilgrim's way - Dinner Only
Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Smoked Ham, BBQ Pork Back Ribs, Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Herb Roasted Chicken Pieces all served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea. Dinner from Sunday September 21 to Wednesday September 24
2025 Walking towards enchantment: A pilgrim's way - Lunch Only
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Soup & Sandwich, Burger Bar, Appy Day, Fish & Chips, Taco Beef Dip, Beef Stew all served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Lunch will be served on Monday September 22-Wednesday September 24
2025 Fall Writing Retreat Lunch and Dinner
With Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Meal Package includes: Sunday Dinner to Friday Lunch, Continental Breakfast included Monday - Friday Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Soup & Sandwich, Burger Bar, Appy Day, Fish & Chips, Taco Beef Dip, Beef Stew all served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates […]
2025 Fall Writing Retreat Sept 28 - Oct 3
With Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Writers will enjoy five morning master classes with Gail, each on a different aspect of craft, that will help you develop your project to the fullest. Following the morning workshop sessions, explore the Shuswap or write in this restful atmosphere for the remainder of the day. Lunch and Dinner package includes Sunday Dinner - Friday […]
2025 Fall Writing Retreat Dinner Only
With Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Meal Package includes: Sunday Dinner to Thursday Dinner, Continental Breakfast included Monday - Friday Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Smoked Ham, BBQ Pork Back Ribs, Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Herb Roasted Chicken Pieces all served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea.
2025 Fall Writing Retreat Lunch Only
With Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Meal Package includes: Monday to Friday Lunch, Continental Breakfast included Monday - Friday Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Soup & Sandwich, Burger Bar, Appy Day, Fish & Chips, Taco Beef Dip, Beef Stew all served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea.
2025 Fall Writing Retreat No Meals
With Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Choose this package if you want to opt out of meals prepared by our kitchen staff.
2025 Inspired by Nature Lunch and Dinner
With Catherine Nicholls
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM – Includes a main dish (such as soup & sandwich, chili, pot pie, samosa, mac & cheese etc.) served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Dinner: 5:30-6:30 PM – Includes a hot entrée (such as chicken souvlaki, spaghetti and meat sauce, beef bourguignon, meatloaf etc.) served […]
2025 Inspired by Nature Dinner Only
With Catherine Nicholls
Dinner: 5:30-6:30 PM – Includes a hot entrée (such as chicken souvlaki, spaghetti and meat sauce, beef bourguignon, meatloaf etc.) served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea.
2025 Inspired by Nature Lunch Only
With Catherine Nicholls
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM – Includes a main dish (such as soup & sandwich, chili, pot pie, samosa, mac & cheese etc.) served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea.
2025 Wisdom Rhythms and Relationships - Oct. 5-9 Lunch and Dinner
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Soup & Sandwich, Burger Bar, Appy Day, Fish & Chips, Taco Beef Dip, Beef Stew all served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Smoked Ham, BBQ Pork Back Ribs, Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Herb Roasted […]
2025 Wisdom Rhythms and Relationships - Oct. 5-9 Dinner Only
Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Smoked Ham, BBQ Pork Back Ribs, Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Herb Roasted Chicken Pieces all served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea.
2025 Wisdom Rhythms and Relationships Lunch Only
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM – Includes a main dish (such as soup & sandwich, chili, pot pie, samosa, mac & cheese etc.) served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea.
2025 A Wisdom School on Wisdom Rhythms and Relationships Online
Join us online at the Sorrento Centre. There will be an invitation to a ‘Wisdom way of knowing’ through a daily rhythm with periods of silence, centering prayer, teaching, conscious conversation, Gurdjieff Exercises and Movements, chanting, mindful work, lectio divina, and contemplative reflective time.
2025 Associates Thanksgiving Oct 10-13
Please join us for Associates’ Thanksgiving Weekend October 10-13, 2025! We are excited to host our Associates during this long weekend. Members of our Board of Directors will also be in attendance, meeting Saturday morning and then turning their attention to the many fall tasks involved with putting parts of the Centre to bed for […]
2025 Associates Thanksgiving Lunch and Dinner
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Soup & Sandwich, Burger Bar, Appy Day, Fish & Chips, Taco Beef Dip, Beef Stew all served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Smoked Ham, BBQ Pork Back Ribs, Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Herb Roasted […]
2025 Associates Thanksgiving Dinners Only
Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Smoked Ham, BBQ Pork Back Ribs, Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Herb Roasted Chicken Pieces all served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea. Thanksgiving dinner will be served on Sunday Evening. Dinner will be served on Oct 11-13
2025 Associates Thanksgiving Lunch Only
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm Menu alternates daily with Soup & Sandwich, Burger Bar, Appy Day, Fish & Chips, Taco Beef Dip, Beef Stew all served with a garden salad, whole fruit or fruit salad, dessert, coffee and tea. Lunch will be served on Oct 11/12.
2025 Associates Thanksgiving Meal Only
Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm Menu Turkey Dinner served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea. Thanksgiving dinner will be served on Sunday Evening.
2025 Contemplative Retreat Lunch and Dinner
With Henri Locke and Leslie Black
Meal Package includes: Dinner Friday, Lunch and Dinner Saturday and Lunch Sunday. Continental breakfast is included in your package and will be on Saturday and Sunday. Cost: 88.20 includes gst Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM – Includes a main dish (such as soup & sandwich, chili, pot pie, samosa, mac & cheese etc.) served with a garden […]
2025 Contemplative Retreat Dinner Only
With Henri Locke and Leslie Black
Dinner only meal package: includes dinner on Friday and Saturday. Continental Breakfast is included for Saturday and Sunday. Cost: 51.45 Dinner: 5:30-6:30 PM – Includes a hot entrée (such as chicken souvlaki, spaghetti and meat sauce, beef bourguignon, meatloaf etc.) served with a hot vegetable, a specialty salad, dessert, coffee or tea.
2025 Sagebrush Quilters Fall Retreat
2025 Summit Drive Church - Women's Retreat
developing caring, passionate followers of Jesus Christ Welcome to Summit As a church we seek to develop followers of Jesus Christ who are committed to: Passionate worship, Loving relationships, Spiritual Growth, Serving through our gifts, Sharing our faith.