Volunteering at Gwynedd
Attending Sunday worship and volunteering are good ways to get acquainted with the Gwynedd community. There are many opportunities for volunteering with our various committees.
Communications Committee: Contact
Carol Ritting
Needed:
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Several OWL techs to connect the on-site Sunday worship with the on-line Zoom worship. If you can use Zoom, we can teach you to connect the on-site devices to the Zoom community. If we get three more volunteers, each will only have to serve once every other month.
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Several volunteers who can do any of the following. Editors, writers, recorders of meeting notes or reviewers of content on our website.
Religious Education Committee: Contact JB Baker-McAllister at
gwyneddyfds@gmail.com
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Volunteers are needed to teach Youth Quaker Education classes on Sundays.
Family Promise of Montco PA (formerly Inter-faith Housing Alliance): Contact Marcia Wise at
wise.marcia@gmail.com
Gwynedd works with FPM-PA to support local families and children who are experiencing food insecurity and/or homelessness to access the resources they need. Food is collected and transported to their food bank and housing is supplied for about a month during the year in conjunction with other local faith groups.
American Friends Service Committee Sale (AFSC): Contact clerk
Chris Mrozinski
AFSC sale is a flea market of donated, quality goods that raise money to support the (AFSC) projects here and abroad. Much help is needed to sort, display, sell and take down the sale.
Peace and Justice Vigil: Contact Judy Inskeep at
inskeeps4peace@verizon.net
Volunteers are needed to stand vigil by holding signs on Rt 202 in front of the Meetinghouse at 9AM on Sunday before worship, weather permitting (not during rain, ice or snow). Bring your own sign message or borrow one of ours.
Gwynedd Property Committee: Contact Barbara Schwarzenbach
bschwarzenbach@me.com or Michael Buckley at
muniman50@yahoo.com for Maintenance and Paige Menton for landscaping at
paigementon@gmail.com
The Property Committee takes care of our grounds, historic meetinghouse, cemetery and school building, adjacent Hilltop-Avalon group housing property as well as the newer Gwynedd Friends School and the caretakers’ cottage. Help in maintenance or landscaping is always needed.
Learn to run Zoom at Meeting: Contact Ranvir Bakshi at
rkbakshi@comcast.net
Learn to follow the written procedures to run the hybrid Zoom program in the Meetinghouse during worship and other activities. Participants always work with an experienced partner.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL):
Contact Deb Hejl (
deb.hejl@gmail.com) for information about how to be informed about national legislation that reflects Quaker values.