Lives of Service

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Join the Pendle Hill maintenance team for a working weekend of fun, service, fellowship, and celebration as we engage in weather-appropriate work projects to spruce up Pendle Hill’s grounds and buildings. There will be opportunities for worship sharing, as well as plenty of guided work for all levels of strength and ability.

Work projects are likely to include:

1. work in our organic vegetable garden;
2. enhancements to an outdoor gathering space: bench construction and wheel-chair ramp construction; artistic firewood stacking;
3. interior painting of a hallway.

Work will range from light to heavy (painting and sanding being the light end, firewood stacking medium work , and ramp construction or garden mulching is the heavy end of project choices).

Leader(s)

Lloyd Guindon has carefully tended the Pendle Hill grounds for over 30 years. A graduate of the Barnes Foundation’s Arboretum School, he is trained as an arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture. A lifelong Quaker currently active in Chester Monthly Meeting (PA), Lloyd is also a poet.

Bob Denison is a licensed clinical social worker providing hospice services. He is a member of Chester River Monthly Meeting (MD) and a former Pendle Hill resident student and board member with a gift for spiritual nurture.

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