Registration is now open!
May 1-4, 2025
Antiochian Village
Bolivar, PA
with keynote speaker Fr. Josiah Trenham
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A note for speakers and young adult volunteers: please contact Mindi (office@saintemmelia.com) BEFORE you register!
Cost:
Household (1 or 2 parents) registration = $190
Registration per child (3-18) = $55
Meals = $114
Meal packages must be purchased for each adult and child 5 and older. Each meal package includes all meals for the whole weekend, as well as snacks.
Special Diet (GF and/or Dairy Free): $30
Housing: $325 for the weekend
Scholarships and volunteer discounts are available! Please do not let finances be a barrier to your attendance. Contact Marcy (programs@saintemmelia.com) for more information.
Location:
This year, we will be gathering at Antiochian Village Camp (Bolivar, PA) and staying in the camp cabins. Each cabin has two sides with private bathrooms and a shared common room. Families will stay in one side of the cabin and share the common room with another family. If you would like to share with a particular family, or if you have more than 10 people in your family, please let us know at programs@saintemmelia.com.
If you have any questions about lodging, food, or other facilities, please email us, NOT AV Camp.
Workshops & Speakers
Keynote Speaker: Fr. Josiah Trenham
A native Southern Californian, Father Josiah attended Westminster Seminary California, receiving his M.Div. in 1992 while studying under some of the most influential teachers in the Reformed tradition. In 1993, he was ordained to the Holy Priesthood of the Orthodox Church and in 2004 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Durham, England. Father Josiah has published numerous articles and two books and is also the founder of Patristic Nectar Publications, a non-profit ministry. His weekly homilies are entitled The Arena Podcasts, and are available on Patristic Nectar Publications, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can find links to his homilies here. His video reflections are available on YouTube under Patristic Nectar Films.
Andrew Kern and his wife Karen have raised five children to adulthood and now have nine grandchildren. He is the founder of CiRCE, a research institute for classical educators at home and in schools. He has been researching, speaking, teaching, and consulting in the Christian classical renewal since 1993, during which he has taught in home school co-ops and classrooms, consulted with over 100 schools and co-ops, and helped Karen home school their children. Andrew speaks regularly at home school and classical conferences.
In addition, he is the co-author with Dr. Gene Edward Veith of Classical Education, The Movement Sweeping America and, with Andrea Lipinski, of The CiRCE Guide to Reading. He also led the development of CiRCE’s classical rhetoric program, The Lost Tools of Writing, and he loves Homer, Shakespeare, Anne of Green Gables, and Endeavour. Like Shakespeare, he knows a little Latin and less Greek. Except a lot less than Shakespeare.