Koinonia Retreats
Koinonia (translated from the Greek as community) is a unique retreat experience for college students, which provides opportunities for learning, leadership, and Christian fellowship. Developed from a model used by many Catholic university centers across the country, Koinonia is led by students, who serve as peer mentors to retreatants over the course of a weekend-long, offsite retreat that explores the teachings of the Catholic Church, as well as the personal faith of each participant. Students who participate in the Koinonia experience enter into a larger community of faith, which is sustained through reunions, special liturgical events, and future retreats in which they may take on leadership roles.
There will be three opportunities to do Koinonia this spring:
March 28-30
April 4-6
April 11-13
The John Paul II Newman Center will continue its Koinonia retreat experience in the autumn semester of 2008. It will be led by a team of ten student leaders and offered to thirty student participants, and promises to be the start of an incredible spiritual and community building tradition here at the Newman Center. The Koinonia Retreat model has been shown to be an incredibly effective tool in building strong communities of faithful leaders in a college environment, and the John Paul II Newman Center looks forward to extending the Koinonia community to include the UIC campus.
Contact Jackie Posek (Jackieposek@jp2newman.com) if interested!