Hummus Program plants a seed with Cultivate Small Business!
L’Arche Boston North’s Homemade Hummus Team is the only nonprofit to win a place in Santander Bank’s 2021 Cultivate Small Business Program! Cultivate Small Business is a fully virtual, 16-week program that helps early-stage entrepreneurs from Massachusetts and New Jersey in the food industry build and sustain businesses. L’Arche Boston North Executive Director Jennifer Matthews says, “We are delighted to have been selected to participate in this year’s program. Homemade […]
Read MorePassing the Torch of Leadership
Our very own Webster Bull tells the story of two incredible leaders, Swanna Champlin and Jen Matthews, and the journey our community has been on. Jen and Swanna at Taste of Spring, 2015 From Swanna to Jen: A Torch is Passed Jennifer Matthews admits that she didn’t know how to pronounce L’Arche or even where Haverhill was when she signed on as office manager on Martin Luther King Day 2006. […]
Read MoreNew Program Coordinator
Welcome Michael Richard! L’Arche Boston North is excited to announce the hiring of Michael Richard as the incoming Program Coordinator. Michael has been with L’Arche for four years, serving as House Manager at Assisi House in Bradford MA for three of those years. During his time at L’Arche, Michael has brought stability and growth to both his home and to the greater community. He has also been a prominent and […]
Read MoreL’Arche Across America: From Haverhill to Billings
Six members of the L’Arche Boston North community, traveling west from Haverhill by mini-van, reached Billings, Montana, on Monday evening, May 15. This marked the end of the firstweek of the “L’Arche Across America” tour, which will take them 8,000 miles and visit a dozen L’Arche communities in the continental USA. . First week on the road For the first four nights, core members Woody, Doris, and John D, and […]
Read MoreL’Arche Across America Rolls West
On Tuesday morning, May 9, the van was loaded with three core members, three assistants, and enough materiel for an amphibious landing. By 9am “L’Arche Across America” was underway, headed for L’Arche Syracuse. Woody was heard to proclaim, “So long, Haverhill. It was nice knowing you.” The plan is an 8,000-mile, 26-day adventure, threading its way through 12 L’Arche communities and visiting sites from Glacier to the Grand Canyon, all […]
Read MoreThe View From The Couch
April 2017– Blaine Kuss, L’Arche Assistant“ — In the past fifty years, Indiana has produced three good things: Larry Bird, The Jackson Five, and this birthday person with an affinity for Kendrick Lamar, microbiologists, and #larcheliving.” This was the clue associated with my name this evening in community’s monthly Birthday Jeopardy game. The clue tells several important things about my life, including my musical tastes—and corresponding political views. This clue […]
Read More“L’Arche Across America”: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Journey
On Tuesday, May 9, three core members and three assistants of L’Arche Boston North will set out on an 8,000-mile, 26-day odyssey across America and back. They will visit twelve L’Arche communities from Syracuse and St. Louis to Seattle and Los Angeles. Along the way they will see Niagara Falls, Mt. Rushmore, Glacier National Park, the Pacific Coast Highway, and the Grand Canyon. The Birth of a Dream The plan […]
Read MoreCollege Students Spread the Word about L’Arche
Two or three times a year, groups of college students stay a week at L’Arche Boston North, learning lessons the classroom cannot give, experiencing what words cannot adequately describe. From Boston College, Holy Cross, Iona, and most recently Stonehill College, students come and live in our homes, sleeping on spare beds, couches, and floors, and sharing community life. (In the photo above, John plays cards at Pat House with Stonehill […]
Read MoreJudi: Celebrating 25 Years in Community
Judith Ann Elizabeth is her baptismal name, but everyone in community knows and loves her as Judi. Looking back on her life—including 25 years in L’Arche—Judi refers to it as “so much fun.” That description applies to her too. (The photo shows Judi having fun with Donald in early days at L’Arche Irenicon.) Today Judi is a leader at Nazorean House, where she loves cooking, ironing, and doing housework. Judi […]
Read MoreL’Arche Assistant Travels to Trosly
“I could not stop smiling,” said L’Arche Boston North assistant Ariana Bachman about her week in Trosly, the French village where L’Arche was founded in 1964 and where founder Jean Vanier still lives today. That hardly seems to qualify as news. As head of Nazorean House and a L’Arche Boston North Assistant for nearly ten years, Ariana smiles often and broadly. For six days, December 4–9, she was one of […]
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