NEHALEM NEWSPAGE

NEHALEM NEWSPAGE

L'Arche Nehalem 8501 SE Stephens Portland, OR 97216
(503) 251-6901 Fax: 251-6952 e-mail: mail@larche-portland.org web site: www.larche-portland.org

APRIL 2004

Our mission is to create a place to call home
for people with developmental disabilities and those who share life with them.

NEWS

The Secret of L'Arche Nehalem
A Community Retreat -- Sunday, April 25, 1-4pm

Neahkahnie House (8501 SE Stephens St.)

There will be an optional luncheon from noon to 1.

We need your memories, wisdom, predictions, comments, sense of humor, concerns, discerning mind and heart, experience, faith, realism, common sense, savvy, and, above all, your love of L'Arche Nehalem for an afternoon of prayer, sharing, stories, and discernment as together we search for the secret of L'Arche Nehalem.

This is part of L'Arche International's three-year worldwide Identity and Mission process as the L'Arche movement, at age 40, looks at where it has been and where God is calling it in the future. In this phase, we are especially looking at ways our community is called to grow, what might be different or how we might live our vision of L'Arche better and more fully. We need everybody for this process&emdash;every heart, every mind, and every voice, so please come

Any questions? Call Mary Ann or Amy at the office (503 251-6901).

Garden Party (that is, a Garden Work Party…J ) Come help get our houses’ landscaping in better shape on Saturday, April 3, from 10 to noon. Meet at Neahkahnie House. Thanks to Dave Lyons who is helping us organize this effort.
Our heartfelt condolences go out to Robyn Dowell and her family on her father Dale’s death on March 12, and to John Hartwell and his family on the death of his father Thurlow.
Marilyn Petruzzelli and Amy Barcia gave a presentation on L’Arche to a Social Work class at Warner Pacific College on March 29.
Congratulations to Alison (née O’Neal) and Rod Hilkiah who moved into their new house in Oregon City on March 28. A crew from Nehalem (Amy, Sarah, and Susan) was there to help, along with folks from their home church community and others.

Prayer Night

Annual Holy Week Footwashing Gathering followed by soup and bread supper

Wed., April 7, 4:30 p.m.

Nehalem House

LIFE IN THE HOMES

Our March Coffee Hour/Brunch was a great success. Thanks to all of you who came! We are especially grateful to Stumptown Coffee and Noah’s Bagels for generous donations of their fine drinks and foods, and to Sarah Dulaney for coordinating the donations.

CELEBRATIONS

Wed., April 7, 4:30 p.m., Nehalem House: Footwashing Gathering and Soup & Bread Supper.
Wed., April 14, 7:00 p.m., Nehalem House: Denae’s and Deborah’s Birthdays Celebration. Be prepared for kooky fun with egg roulette and a piñata, both requests of the birthday ladies!
Wed., April 28, 7:00 p.m., Neahkahnie House: Robyn Dowell’s 3^rd Anniversary.

BIRTHDAYS	ANNIVERSARIES
Maureen Cleary (April 7) Denae Overman (Apr. 11) Deborah Warren (Apr. 12) Cindy Leonard (Apr. 29, 1957)	Robyn Dowell (Apr. 29, 2001) RoseMary Lyons joined the Board (2002)

JOURNEYS

Denae Overman and Deborah Warren attended the 0-to-2-Year L’Arche Assistants Retreat at Pilgrim Firs, Port Orchard, Wash., from March 7-12. John Cook, the director of the L’Arche Washington D.C. community, animated the retreat.

WISH LIST

Keep our sister L’Arche communities in Haiti in your thoughts and prayers. At the best of times, those communities live in poverty and with great uncertainty, and the recent unrest in Haiti has made life all the more uncertain.

The particular suffering of the person [with developmental disability], as of all marginal people, is a feeling of being excluded, worthless and unloved. It is through everyday life in community and the love that must be incarnate in this, that [people with disability] can begin to discover that they have a value, that they are loved and so are lovable.

Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

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