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The St. Iakovos Retreat Center is a beautiful 137-acre facility nestled in Kenosha WI with a glistening 11-acre lake with over 50 acre pinewood forest. Our unique facility offers a peaceful setting for overnight retreats and camps as well as a joyful environment for celebrations such as weddings and family reunions. Our “getaway from it all” retreat space, provides a place for relaxation, self reflection and team building. Corporations and businesses can host strategy planning, workshops and conferences. Additionally we offer state of the art Sports Fields and Activities. Natural beauty and outdoor space to learn and grow, recreate and relax, St. Iakovos Retreat Center offers you the perfect setting for your personal and group needs.

Camps & Retreats

St. Iakovos Retreat Center specializes in hosting guests of all ages for focused retreats and camps. We provide a 137-acre natural playground complete with outdoors activities, and plenty of indoor space to have studies and fellowship time. Our chapel seats 35, with plenty of outdoor area to tent for special services. Our main Tomaras Lodge is the central core to retreats complete with a large great room for gathering, a professional kitchen, cafeteria, dining hall, and lodging accommodations for 30 - 200 guests.

Our two cottages provide communal sleeping areas for a "camp style" experience. Our property features a 11 acre lake for water recreation with boats and fishing gear. Enjoy plenty of games together from basketball, sand volleyball, soccer, and softball. The barn with farm animals is a guest favorite and our 50-acre pine forest complete with 2.1 miles of winding trails, is relaxing and inspirational.

Enjoy fireside chats and laughter in our gathering circle outdoors or at one of our three fireplaces. Come for the fellowship and learning. Stay for the respite away from our busy lives.

Weddings, Reunions & Family Group Events

St. Iakovos Retreat Center provides the perfect backdrop to your special occasions. Whether a wedding, family reunion, anniversary party, graduation party or another milestone event, we are sure to provide a memorable experience

With 137 acres and four lodging style choices, we can host up to 200 guests. With various event venue gathering locations indoor and outdoor, your can choose a chapel, lakeside, or main lodge wedding area. Our Dining Hall boasts large windows looking out over the lake, a stone fireplace and large doors that open to access a large patio and outdoor fireplace.

Imagine your event taking place on the property with friends and family gathered around together without having to stay overnight elsewhere. Spending extra relaxation and recreation time with family before and after your event is easy.

Business, Corporate Events & Conferences

St. Iakovos Retreat Center is the ideal “getaway” to focus on your business goals, host an employee holiday party, picnic, or schedule learning, training workshops or conferences. Strategic planning and team building is made easy using the resources we provide. Your overnight stay will be comfortable with several lodging styles to serve 200 guests. Our amenities and recreational team building activities provide fun breaks from meetings

With plenty of room for together meetings and areas to break-off for quiet, learning, study, or reflection time, we provide flexible options in customizing your special conference, workshop of meeting needs. Our multiple facilities and 137 acre property gives each employee a chance to motivate teams while building important business models, processes, and strategies.

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• In-house Chef, cafeteria, and banquet size dining hall • Large main lodge with 26 modern “hotel style” rooms. • High Tech conference visual presentation tools. • Great Room overlooking the lake for large gatherings • Outdoor sports activities for team building; • Picnic and BBQ areas • Nearby attractions for off campus team building field trips include a winery, a Wisconsin DNR state park of over 4,500 acres, multiple golf courses, Kenosha and Racine lakefront cities, shopping and antique malls, delicious restaurants, and the famous Mars Cheese Factory.

Accomodations

Tomaras Lodge is a 21,000 square foot, fully accessible, multi-level, all-inclusive building with 26 hotel style accommodations. Seated on the shores of 11-acre Friendship Lake with breathtaking views of the water and beach as well as the entire property of St. Iakovos Retreat Center.

The Cottages provide bunk style communal arrangements and sleeps 32 people divided into two separate sides. Additional amenities offered in the cottages are heating and air-conditioning, Wi-Fi access, The Log Lodge sleeps 21 with two separate sleeping areas, two bathrooms, a large gathering room, full kitchen, and fireplace, outdoor pool, and bbq pit.

Sports & Activities

St. Iakovos offers many diverse activities for our guests to engage in. From team sports to quiet moments in our wooded forest or chapel, water activities on the lake, or a visit to our barn to feed the animals. We offer a perfect natural setting for your group. Here is a list of some of our popular activities: • Sand Volleyball • Basketball • Bags • Soccer • Softball • Circle fire pit circle and S’mores • Barn with farmyard animals and wagon rides

• Great room overlooking the lake with couches, tables, fireplace, and balcony for meeting, relaxing, reading or board games • Hiking in our 50-acre pine forest with over 2.1 miles of winding trails. • Marina at our nine-acre pristine lake and dock complete with canoes, kayaks, rowboats, paddleboats, life vests. • Fishing • Picnic and BBQ areas

· Opening grassy areas for outdoor games and competitions. • Chapel • Playground • Swimming Pool · Nearby attractions for off campus team building field trips include a winery, a Wisconsin DNR state park of over 4,500 acres, multiple golf courses, Kenosha and Racine lakefront cities, shopping and antique malls, delicious restaurants, and the famous Mars Cheese Factory.

Coming Soon

St. Iakovos Retreat Center is ever growing and expanding in it's offerings to our guests. Through grant funding, the soccer field, softball field, and handicapped accessibility to our basketball court and fields are all underway. We are excited to build a competitive Sports Campus to be completed in the near future. With a long range plan for future enhancements, St. Iakovos Retreat Center is grateful to be building upon our foundation of providing fellowship, faith, service and hospitality to all who stay or visit with us.

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Saint Iakovos Retreat Center 920 224th Avenue

Kansasville WI 53139 Phone 262-864-9090