Volunteer

Nathalie is from France.  She comes to the L’Arche Academy two days a week and spends time with the core members there.  We soon discovered that one of our core members, Sarah, wanted to learn French, now the two of them sit down regularly and learn new vocabulary words and phrases.  Sarah loves her French session when Nathalie comes to visit!

Matt went to high school with one of our core members, Lance.  After years of not seeing one another they ran into each other working out at Matt Ross Community Center.  Matt now comes to dinner at Lance’s house regularly and the two of them go to concerts and movies together.

Peggy loved to cook.  Once a month for nearly a year Peggy would come over in the afternoon and cook a meal for the entire community to share at Prayer night, the assistants loved the break from the kitchen and the core members always loved her meals!

Del is a registered nurse.  She volunteers using her gifts on a regular basis by training new assistants on Medication Administration.  When she comes to review records she loves to do it at a home so she can interact with the core members that she has gotten to know over the years.    

Debbie was an American Sign Language school teacher.  One of our core members communicates using ASL, so Debbie started a small group meeting for interested core members to come and learn new ASL skills to help us all communicate.

Tom had a teenage son who needed service hours for school.  They had a family tradition of making homemade pizzas.  Thinking of ways to share this love with L’Arche Heartland was easy!  Every Monday night for an entire semester Tom and his son made homemade pizzas and brought them over to a L’Arche Heartland home for Monday night football with the core members!