The Grace Church Fall Retreat is built around a series of talks, meals, and fellowship opportunities. It is a great time to get away (but not too far away!), relax, learn, and be rejuvenated. Nursery care and children's programming is available.
Note: Scroll to the bottom of the page for an archive of past Fall Retreat recordings.
Can we rely on the Gospels in our Bibles? There are four of them, and they aren’t all exactly the same. How were these four chosen? Aren’t there others? Do the four we have conflict? Contradict each other? At the 2025 Grace Anglican Fall Retreat, join the Rev. Dr. Jacob Rodriguez as he answers these questions and others with Good News: God’s Word is trustworthy. Dr. Rodriguez will discuss the reliability of the eyewitness Jesus tradition, the formation of the Synoptic (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) tradition, the relationship between the Gospel of John and the Synoptic Gospels, and examine some of the evidence for the Four-Gospel canon as opposed to the apocryphal Gospels.
Silver Heights Camp
501 Camp Ave.
New Albany IN, 47150
Note: this is NOT an overnight retreat. We'll all sleep in our own beds on Friday night.
Friday, September 5
6:00pm - Potluck dinner with "main meat" provided.
6:30pm - Childcare opens
7:00pm - Session #1
9:00pm - Optional fellowship trip to Upland Brewing Company
Saturday, September 6
8:15am - Childcare opens
8:30am - Gather and welcome
9:00am - Session #2
10:00am - Small group discussions/Break
11:00am - Session #3
12:00pm - Catered Boxed Lunch
1:00pm - Session #4
2:00pm - Retreat ends
Saturday afternoon: Optional fellowship trip to Huber's Farm
Optional Meet-up: 3:30pm at the pond deck (where they feed the fish)
Adults: $50 for one person or $90 per couple.
Children: $15 each.
For financial assistance, or for a discounted rate for partial attendance, please contact Pastor Nick.
The Rev. Dr. Jacob Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Trinity Anglican Seminary. Before coming to Trinity, he served in various ministries for 12 years in Ethiopia, Oxford, and Washington, DC. These included theological education, discipleship mobilization for Muslim background believers, and pastoring ministry. In 2021, he completed a DPhil in New Testament and Early Christianity at University of Oxford. His thesis, entitled Combining Gospels in Early Christianity: The One, the Many, and the Fourfold, was given the 2023 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. He is an ordained priest in the Anglican Church in North America, and is delighted to serve at Trinity and help train up the next generations of gospel-centered clergy for the urgent task of church mission in North America and beyond. He and his wife Tessa have three children, and they love to serve others through hospitality.
