An Inside Look at Our Community
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Meet Nurse Patti
Meet Nurse Patti! Chip recently interviewed our Community Nurse to get to know her better.
Chip Gets Interviewed
Usually, Chip is the one asking all the questions in an interview. This time, his boss at the office, Amy, turned it around and interviewed Chip! Learn more about L’Arche’s own 007.
Get to Know Emma!
Emma grew up around L’Arche and is now living at Sunrise House. Get to know her better in this interview from her housemate, Chip!
L’Arche on the Radio
Learn more about L’Arche from popular St. Louis Radio Host and Sports Director Martin Kilcoyne as he talks with his sister Paula, the Executive Director of L’Arche St. Louis! Paula and Martin joined John Carney on The Big 550 KTRS on December 15, 2022.
Aging Gracefully in L’Arche
The dream of L’Arche lived in the hearts and minds of a small group of St. Louisans years before our first home opened in 2011. The dream has always been for people with an intellectual disability to have the opportunity to live fully and age gracefully. Is this not the dream of each of us?
Guten Tag!
Sunrise House welcomed Paula to St. Louis at the end of August. She came all the way from Germany to share life in our community over the coming year. Chip interviewed “New Paula” so that we can all get to know her better!
Just Clowning Around
This was the second summer for the L’Arche St. Louis Theater Program! We were visited by Mary Ruppert of L’Arche USA who helped participants discover their inner clowns. Chip was curious to know more about her and shares what he learned in this interview!
We’re Still L’Arche
"The whole entire world is a very narrow bridge and the main thing is to have no fear at all" - Epigram attributed to Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
When I think of the Spring of 2020, I can almost see this “very narrow bridge.” Back then, that bridge was the slim margin of error that could let the virus into one of our homes and leave someone sick - maybe even isolated in an ICU, far away from loved ones.
A School of the Heart:
“My college graduation was a celebration of one type of learning and the attainment of new skills. My arrival at L’Arche was the beginning of another, equally important, type of learning that would involve a very different set of skills.”
From Assistant to Board Member!
This interview is a continuation of Chip’s, “Get to Know Our Board Members,” series! This time, he talked with Board member Jason. Jason first came to L’Arche St. Louis as a live-out Assistant way back in our early years! Learn more about him from Chip’s questions!