Pendle Hill A Quaker center welcoming all for Spirit-led learning, retreat, and community
Pendle Hill is a Quaker adult education, retreat, and conference center on Plush Mill Road in Wallingford. Since 1930, we have worked to foster a more spiritually fulfilling, socially just, ecologically sustainable, and nonviolent human presence on this planet. Every year, people from many faiths and backgrounds come from near and far to experience our educational programs in arts and spirituality, community activism, leadership training, and spiritual deepening. We also provide hospitality and nutritious home-cooked, locally grown meals for those studying with us, on personal retreat, or using our conference facilities to carry on their own work. Our 25 ecologically diverse acres, including our large organic garden and hoop house, offer many opportunities for learning about sustainable living, ecological identity, and inner transition.
Education Learning at Pendle Hill is both experiential and intellectual, rooted in the principles of The Religious Society of Friends. Such learning includes dialogue, personal study and contemplation, collaborative exploration, openness to divine leadings, and interaction with the natural environment. Sustainability Pendle Hill Seeks to be a living, nourishing model of sustainability in a spiritual community. We work to experience and support a way of living that is environmentally, socially, and fiscally sustainable. Social Action and Justice We commit to being a living testimony to a social order that manifests God’s love for everyone. We work to be inclusive, respectful, and supportive of all people. We strive courageously for peace and justice.
Our vision: to create peace with justice in the world by transforming lives