Old Haverford Friends have united in support of the Black Lives Matter movement on 6/14/2020.
Here are some other ways to get involved:
Indivisible.org – actions in solidarity with Black Lives and community.
American Friends Service Committee – movement for Black Lives,
Poor Peoples Campaign – a national call for Moral Revival.
Color of Change – the nation’s larges online racial justice organization,
The Friends Community Garden has taken first place for the community vegetable garden category in the Penn State Cooperative Extension of Delaware County garden contest.
Michele Taylor, one of our FCG committee members, had submitted our garden for this contest on behalf of the FCG committee a few months ago.
In notifying us of our first place, Penn State wrote:
“…you had an amazing use of the space with lots of interesting small plots and vegetable varieties. We applaud all your efforts with the community there.”
The award will be presented at a luncheon Sept. 26.
Thanks to all of our gardeners for helping to make our garden so special. This award goes to everyone who plants, weeds, harvests, mows, cleans up debris, etc. despite record breaking heat and drought conditions.
Our garden is certainly a team effort! Keep up the good work!
Congratulations!
Bonnie McMeans
Run of the Mill String Band, featuring “old time” music performed by Greg and Palmer Loux and friends, performed at Old Haverford Meeting on Saturday April 25th at 7PM. Great music and fun!
Lyn Back (right) introduced Pat Clark (left), who was formerly with American Friends Service Committee, and recently served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine the events around the massacre in Greensboro NC in 1979. She visited Old Haverford on March 8th to give an account of the healing process that resulted from the Commission’s work 25 years after that incident, and to provide some perspective on how we can move forward from where we are, with respect to racism in our communities and our country.
On Sunday December 7th, Friends gathered at Pendle Hill, a Quaker conference center in nearby Wallingford, in order to focus on Mindfulness. Our retreat was attended by 41 Friends, approximately a dozen of whom were children. The retreat was facilitated by Gloria Shepard, for the adults, and by Madeline Schaeffer and Marissa Donohue, for the children. We learned techniques for quieting the mind, and for meditation, both sitting and walking. We approached the subject with a “beginner’s mind.” We enjoyed fellowship and lunch served by the wonderfully accommodating Pendle Hill staff. All in all, the day was a valuable experience for all who attended. Late breaking news is that Overseers and Worship & Ministry are planning to have a refresher session probably in April — we’ll keep you posted!
Old Haverford Friends gathered for outreach at our tent along Karakung Drive for the Haverford Township Heritage Festival on June 1st.
Since the Meeting was founded in 1683, and the Meetinghouse dates back to about 1700, the festival featured an image of the meetinghouse on one of the glasses they were using to serve craft beer.
Photo credit: Matt Carlson (Thanks Matt!)
On Saturday, Kyle will begin installing the new windows purchased for the First Day School area, Library and Kitchen. These new windows provide much better thermal insulation than the old ones, which should reduce our fossil fuel usage for heating this space. Please bear with us as we make these improvements.
Also, on Wednesday Feb 19, our new bench cushions arrived and were installed. We are working with a church in Philadelphia to see if they might be able to make use of our old cushions which are still serviceable if no one has allergies to horsehair.
Well Friends, we’ve updated our website to use WordPress rather than Drupal. Hopefully this will allow more of you to be involved in maintaining the content on this site. If you’d like to try it out, see me at Meeting and we’ll set you up with an account.