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Sravasti Abbey is seeking volunteers for upcoming monthly community building/offering service days at the abbey during the warm season, beginning Saturday, June 27.

The idea is to strengthen the abbey’s support community and, at the same time, take a bit of the workload off the shoulders of the nuns, according to volunteer Sarah Conover.

 The abbey has expanded in recent years, which means  it’s become more challenging for the nuns to keep up with the maintenance of buildings, gardens and forest projects.

“The distance of the abbey from its lay supporters makes it efficient to have scheduled days where a group of us can come together and pitch in,” Conover wrote. “We have probably all felt that spending time at the Abbey—whether working or meditating—helps us to reconnect with goodness, virtue and generosity. We believe these monthly service opportunities will help us cultivate those same qualities in our lives at home.”

Volunteers to help maintain the property will gather on the last Saturday of every month through October.

Monthly dates will be from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. June 27July 25, Aug. 29, Sept. 26, and Oct. 31. 

For information or to volunteer email [email protected].

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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