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# Glenview Parish Hosts Storytelling and Faith Lenten Event
- URL: https://uoj.news/news/86516-glenview-parish-hosts-storytelling-and-faith-lenten-event/
- Published: 2026-02-21T10:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T16:13:40.000Z
- Description: A Chicago-area parish will host a Lenten retreat on faith-based storytelling led by Fr. Sergius Halvorsen.
- Author: Tobias Straney
- Tags: #Category: News, St. Tikhon's Seminary, Conferences, Lenten retreat

**GLENVIEW, IL** — Sts. Peter & Paul Greek Orthodox Church will host a Lenten Retreat March 6–8, 2026, featuring [guest speaker](https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story%5Ffbid=949760194250287&id=100076489440692&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=EW4U9hmOjSF2K12g) Fr. Sergius Halvorsen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Rhetoric at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. The retreat is sponsored by the parish’s Creticos Memorial Lectures.

The weekend will focus on “Faith Based Storytelling: Sharing the Good News through the Sacred Art of Narrative.” Services and presentations include the Akathistos/Salutations Service, Great Vespers, and the Sunday Divine Liturgy, at which Fr. Halvorsen will serve as homilist. Lectures will address themes such as “Faith Made Perfect in Weakness” and evangelization through personal narrative.

[![](https://uoj.news/content/images/2025/12/86516-glenview-parish-hosts-storytelling-and-faith-lenten-event-image-8cfa62dd1023.jpg)On this topicSt. Tikhon’s Monastery to Host Lenten Retreat on March 21](https://uoj.news/news/85733-st-tikhons-monastery-to-host-lenten-retreat-on-march-21/)

Fr. Halvorsen serves as a priest of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) and is attached to Holy Transfiguration Church. The retreat is free and open to the public, though advance [registration](https://ssppglenview.org/lentenretreat/?fbclid=IwVERFWAQGt%5FhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeXGEVPyDz2-50WGjiTIUz%5FUWZlynuOkqH6YuR9z-SaZ5HTShbVnA2uvXBxSQ%5Faem%5Fl9Vhxy%5FjhofNoi6u-Y3TBQ) is required for meal planning by February 27.

Previously, the [UOJ reported](https://uoj.news/news/86362-serbian-orthodox-diocese-announces-2026-great-lenten-retreat-in-pittsburgh/) that the Serbian Orthodox Diocese announced their 2026 Great Lenten retreat in Pittsburgh.