Twice a year, Our Redeemer hosts retreats at Koinonia—one in the winter and one in the summer. These retreats offer a time for fun, relaxation, and fellowship, providing a break from the busyness of everyday life. With no set schedule, you are free to unwind in whatever way feels right for you—whether it’s reading a book by the fire, enjoying meaningful conversations, hiking scenic trails, tubing down snowy hills in the winter, or rafting along the Delaware River in the summer. Join us for a refreshing getaway where you can simply be with God and one another.
Located in the Catskill mountains about 2.5 hours from Seaford, Koinonia is situated on 1,200 acres of forest, with numerous facilities that offer opportunities to be surrounded by God’s creation. Koinonia (Koi-no-NEE-ah) is a New Testament Greek word meaning community, which is our primary focus of our retreats when we go as a church.
Koinonia is located at 165 Lakeview Road Highland Lake, NY
Let us give you an overview of what a typical ORLC Retreat at Koinonia looks like in the Winter and the Summer.
We try to book our retreats out in advance so to give everyone plenty of time to plan and prepare. In the Winter we look to book a weekend in late January or early February. In the Summer we look to go early to mid August, a last final vacation before school begins again in the Fall. Scroll down to see the upcoming dates that we currently have scheduled.
Conference Center
Much of the activity takes place in the Conference Center. The Conference Center has 20 motel style room, across two wings. Each room has at least two queen beds a peice, with some rooms have additional twon beds, along with bathroom and showers in each room.
The two wings come togehter in a great room where we have our meals, do crafts, play games, puzzels, or to reach or chat by the fire. There is an additional Agape Rooms where more activities can take place.
Meals are prepared by Koinonia Staff and we always make sure to have a well stocked community snack table.
This is your headline
This is your sub-headline
Hillside Cabin
a place for youth
For future retreats, we hope to fill the Conference Center rooms with adults, couples, and families with young children. Just down the road, the Hillside Cabin provides accommodations for up to 16 middle and high school youth, along with their adult chaperones. This setup allows the youth to have their own space in the evenings while still bringing everyone together for activities, events, and meals throughout the weekend.
This will allows families to come to retreat together (even if they stay in serperate parts of camp), as well as allowing youth the opportunity to attending if the rest of their family is unable to join (a permission slip will be needed and we will coordiante your child to ride up with another family).
At our Winter Retreat we get the opportunity to explore God's creation
Summer Retreats
early-mid August
Insert your content. Try to limit your content to a maximum of 2 - 3 sentences so that you don’t lose your readers interest. A great way to break up large amounts of text is to create additional blocks.
Questions & Answers
Koinonia is a Lutheran Camp.
The Conference Center is a hotel envirorment. With a great room to hang out with a fireplace and 20 rooms down two wings. Most room have two queen beds, each with bathroom. There are some rooms that sleep more.
When some people hear church retreat they wonder if we have structed prayer time
You. Anyone. Bring yourself. Bring your family. Bring your friends. We've had couple attend. Singles attend. Families of 2 to 6. You can invite your extended family or friends, even if they are not members of ORLC. As long as we have the space, the more the merrier.
Very accomidating ot food diets and restrictions.
Snack table.
This is the answer to the question. Give enough detail to adequately answer the question, but consider using multiple questions so that each answer is concise.
This is your headline
Testimonials
"It is relaxing, and fun to hang out with my family and other kids my age."
"The best part is seeing all my friends and running around crazy."
"First thing that comes to mind is extremely beautiful and spiritual. Relaxing. The best weekend I've had as an adult, ever!
"A great place to unwind and be yourself with Family and friends"
"We play games- and ROAR"
"I like everything about the weekend. The freindships. The conversaitons. The quiet time."
"Even though I am not a member of the congregaiton because I do not live locally, I was welcomed with open arms and we had the best weekend. The kids are asking to come back! Looking forward to being with everyone again at beautiful Koinonia"
"The perfect place to unwind and disconnect with family and friends"
"I had so much fun playing outside and inside."
"Eating together and seeing the delicious meals Chef Lou made for us"
"I really enjoy staying up late and hanging out with all my friends."
Join us for our Upcoming Retreats
Use links below to fill out a form a deposit to sign up for our upcoming retreat.
