Diving Deeper 2022: Healthcare, Employment, & Spirituality
Thank you to everyone who joined us during our Diving Deeper series this year! We enjoyed rousing and reflective discussions about human-centered healthcare, employment and disability, and the spirituality of L’Arche.
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“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.
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Goodbye to “The Red Door”
After many years of thoughtful discussion, discernment, and understanding of our limitations, the board and leadership of the community have determined that we are to sell our much loved Euclid Street House.
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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.
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Overcoming Together: 2021 Annual Report
As we approach the second anniversary of pandemic shutdowns, regulations, and policies, thank you for helping us overcome together. We couldn’t do it alone, and we wouldn’t want to.
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Living in Solidarity
For John O’Connor, the idea of the body of Christ exemplifies solidarity: “Each member of the body is important and we would be incomplete without each other,” he says.
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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.
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Overcoming Together: Virtual Fundraiser
Linda Potter and Tim Shriver joined us as keynote speakers. Thank you to everyone who joined us to grieve, pray, hear stories, and sing. Even in times of hardship, we know that we are better when we are together.
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Our Brother Andrew, Rest in Peace
It is with great grief, shock and sadness that the L’Arche Greater Washington D.C. community shares the news of the passing of our dear brother Andrew. Andrew died Tuesday morning, following a short illness. His mom, stepdad, dad and sister were at his bedside. Andrew was able to hear our messages, have songs sung, books read, and see us on FaceTime, all in keeping with his planned wishes.
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How We Advocated: Our Vaccine Story
After months of advocacy work, every single core member has received at least a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine! How did it all happen? We look back on the timeline of events and how we were called to advocacy.
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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.
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Capitol Attacks Community Response
I can, every once in a while, tucked into our corner of the city, forget that we as L’Arche GWDC are in Washington, DC, the capital of the USA. What we cannot forget, as we live in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol, is the need of L’Arche.
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