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Our Need for Social Connection

We need each other. You might be thinking, of course L’Arche believes we need each other, they’re an intentional community! The truth is though, connection is absolutely vital to everyone.

Practicing Solidarity: L’Arche Around the World

L’Arche GWDC belongs to the International Federation of L’Arche. We belong to our sisters and brothers around the world who live out the same mission of L’Arche in so many different ways.

“I Believe In L’Arche” | An Interview with Community Member Sue Bodner

Sue Bodner has been a L’Arche GWDC friend and community member for over four decades! We recently caught up with her to hear her L’Arche story. 

Eileen gets animated! Project Impact video

Liddy’s L’Arche story: Enoughness

“No place makes me feel more in love with this earth, with this here and now, with these treasures right before my eyes, than that warm and bright L’Arche bubble."

Disability & Finances: A Conversation with Liz Yoder, Specialized Financial Planner

We sat down with Liz Yoder to talk about her work in disability and finance. Liz is currently a Special Needs Certified Financial Planning® Professional and Founder of Dependent Financial Planning.

Light of L’Arche: Virtual Fundraiser

Thank you to everyone who showed up to celebrate the Light of L’Arche Fundraiser! Don't miss Dr. Yuko Gibson, MD, former assistant and Home Life Leader at GWDC, sharing her experience of transformation at L'Arche.

“Continue to be a part of the story”: An interview with donor and friend, Erica

My hopes for L’Arche are that it would continue to be a place of welcoming and belonging for so many both core members and individuals with disabilities and also the assistants and others.

We all help each other: Thank You Assistants (National DSP Week)

We are full of gratitude for our assistants! Without assistants, “we wouldn’t be able to do the things that we do, we wouldn’t be able to be who we are today,” says Luke Smith, Community Leader and Executive Director of L’Arche GWDC. 

Diversity Commission: “I Am From” Poems

The L’Arche GWDC Diversity Commission guides our community in celebrating diversity and creating spaces for unity, faithfulness, and reconciliation around diversity in our community. The “I Am From” series of poems came out of reflection workshops the Diversity Commission held.

Claymation Videos with Joseph and James

Joseph and James at Euclid House have been creating claymation videos! Joseph came up with the idea, even though he had never worked with claymation before.

Wake ups, coffee, eggs, toast, Adele on Hazel’s iPod… “We used to call snow a four-letter word!” Kelly says with glee in her voice. “And why is that?” I ask. I’m standing at the kitchen window watching Fritz and Gerhard pour salt on the wheelchair ramp and the driveway–and I, for one, am hoping for a blizzard.