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Community Rentals. Powell House welcomes many types of events, including non-profits, social services, schools, and faith-based gatherings, family reunions, weddings, and personal sojourns.  For businesses and state agencies the meeting areas lend themselves to going deep with a topic or team building. In a quiet, natural setting, our buildings offer a choice of simple elegance or wheel-chair accesibility. 

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Support Powell House. Powell House receives a little more than half of its income from guest fees.  The remainder comes from individual's donations , Quaker monthly meetings and the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

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Welcome to Powell House.org Powell House is the conference and retreat center of 
New York Yearly Meeting - Religious Society of Friends. 
Our mission is to foster the spiritual growth of Friends (Quakers) and others and to strengthen the application of Friends' testimonies in the world.

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Adult & Family Programs. Powell House offers more than 20 weekend retreats each year led by gifted and respected leaders, such as June Berger, John Calvi, Linda Chidsey, Ann Davidson, Mikey Edgerton Haines, Arthur Larrabee, Sue Regen, Christopher Sammond and Anne Thomas.

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Youth Program at Powell House. Youth conferences are for those who wish to grow, share, and care in community. Chris DeRoller and Mike Clark, youth directors, lead the conferences

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Our Blog. Stay up to date with everything at Powell House. Visit PoHo Accessibile or PoHo Musing to get the latest information...

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Work - Messiah Sing

We had over 100 participants from toddlers to over 80 years old doing many different kinds of work.  This photo represents one of the crews putting on the siding for the Anna Curtis Center.  There was work done on the patio as well as building a bunk bed and cleaning up sticks and branches on the grounds.

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Scary Quakers - 10th -12th grade

Halloween at PoHo - we will look at the power held and created by ordinary people around the world and why that might be scary to some.  Check out this blog for music and articles.  Add your own suggestions to make a playlist of protest, peace and empowerment songs for the conference.!

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Feeding The Fire

Growing in Relationship with God  -  A series of retreats sponsored by NYYM’s Spiritual Nurture Working Group

If your heart yearns for a deeper relationship with the Divine and a hunger to live in the Power that transforms us and our world... .

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Yes! The steam boiler in Pitt Hall has been replaced and we are totally open again. Thank you for your help, contributions and patience. The previous boiler had split open.

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Powell House Interactive Map

Open this map to begin your exploration of our trails, ponds & buildings.  Ice skating, crosscountry skiing, swimming, and hiking ... 

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Community Rentals

Work groups, congregrations, schools, family reunions....

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