The Retreat - Fresh Eyes
Parish Retreat is a concentrated time of connection - prayer, learning, and fellowship - where we grow together in an aspect of our faith and in our relationships with one another. Memories are made, friendships are formed, and this year we are looking at Scripture with fresh eyes thanks to our speaker Brandon O’Brien.
If you’ve been around for a while, it’s a meaningful touchpoint with others who call COTC home and an opportunity to receive unique teaching.
If you’re newer, Parish Retreat is a chance to get to know people and have a deeper sense of who COTC is. It is often likened to getting more than a month of Sundays’ worth of connection and understanding in one fell swoop.
If you’re a youth, you get all that and the Slurpee Crawl.
About Our Speaker
Brandon O’Brien oversees the publishing efforts for Redeemer City to City, an organization that resources and promotes church planting in global cities. He’s the author or co-author of several books. The best-known of them is Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes. He and his wife, Amy, have two kids and they all live together in Chicago.
On Saturday, he’ll lead us in an unusual and interactive workshop about how our cultural lenses affect what we see when we read the Bible. His aim is to deepen or rekindle your enjoyment of engaging the Scriptures—particularly doing so in community.