During a ceremony on May 15th, 2025, our affiliated community minister, the Captain Reverend Nicole McKay, received her mandate from the Chaplain General and her chaplain scarf. The mandate outlines her professional responsibility to care for all in her service to Canada. The chaplain scarf, a symbol of her mandate, can be worn in her military uniform during ceremonial occasions, similar to a stole in our Unitarian Universalist tradition. Her scarf bears the emblem of the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service depicting the tree of life with the branch motto “Vocatio Ad Servitium” (Called to Serve). Rev Nicole is pictured here with her spouse after the ceremony. She is the first UU chaplain in the Canadian Forces, We celebrate this milestone in her ministry and for Unitarian Universalism in Canada.
— Barb Wentworth, Committee on Ministry