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Announcements
Next Community Gathering at Abraham House
Check Back for the Date
Come and meet the Core Members, Assistants, board members, and supporters of L'Arche Wavecrest. Our gatherings include conversation, potluck, prayer, song, and plenty of friendly faces. These community gatherings are held at Abraham House. If you are interested in attending or would like any additional information, please contact us at (714) 923-1221 or via email at info@larchewavecrest.org.
Annual Tea
Saturday, August 11 at 3:00 p.m.
Please take a moment to sip a cup of tea on Saturday, August 11, at 3:00 p.m. At that time, all of our Wavecrest L'Arche friends and family will have a cup of tea at home to reflect on the spirit of Wavecrest and Abraham House. We also ask that as you reflect, you consider making a gift to support us. Even after the day passes, we will still welcome and need your support.
Founding Executive Director Karen Carr Changing Roles
Karen Carr, the founding executive director of L'Arche Wavecrest, has reached the end of her current mandate and has decided that she will not seek the renewal of her mandate. She will remain an active member of the greater L'Arche Wavecrest community. Read this cover story in the Breakers newsletter.
Search Begins for New Executive Director
The board of L'Arche Wavecrest has started the recruitment process for a new executive director. Interested candidates may contact L'Arche Wavecrest at (714) 923-1221 or via email at info@larchewavecrest.org for a complete position description and more information.
Abraham House Moves to a New Home (January 2007)
Abraham House moved to a new and larger home in the City of Orange! We moved in during the first week of January 2007, and on January 31 we hosted a volunteer appreciation night for those who helped us prepare and move into the new home. Thank you to all who made this possible.
Articles
If you would like a copy of an article, please call the L'Arche Wavecrest office at (714) 923-1221. Please note that for articles appearing in printed publications, we adhere to copyright laws by only including a brief summary of the article below and providing a link to the publication's Web site.
Orange County Register (Friday, May 4, 2007)
Community helps persons with developmental disabilities
L'Arche Wavecrest helps Orange residents make their way.
By Elizabeth Deffner
L'Arche Wavecrest – the first L'Arche community in the southwest – moved
from Fullerton to central Orange earlier this year. Part of the
International Federation of L'Arche, Wavecrest’s Abraham House is a home in
which residents with developmental disabilities – known as core members –
live with residents who do not have developmental disabilities — known as
assistants.
The six-bedroom home was ideal for many reasons, said Karen Carr, director of L'Arche Wavecrest. It keeps residents close to a high number of supportive churches in north Orange County; the home – which was remodeled to have seven bedrooms — is large enough to allow the community to increase the number of core members; it’s close to the core members' school and workplace; and it's in a quiet, friendly neighborhood that welcomed the community. (Visit http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/orange_villapark/columns/article_1681002.php for the complete article.)
Abraham House Honored with the Spotlight Award
Read the article in the Regional Center of Orange County Newsletter
(Fall 2006)
(Click
here for a copy of the article)
Article in Regional Center of Orange County Newsletter (Winter 2006)Abraham House: A Real Home (Click here for a copy of the article)
Los Angeles Times (Friday, December 26, 2003)
Disabilities' Barriers Will Melt in Home:
California's first outpost in a pioneering global movement to integrate the
disabled with the able-bodied will soon open in Fullerton.
By William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer
After a dozen years of toil, now comes the hard part: selecting three
from the pool of 16 mentally disabled applicants to live in California's
first L'Arche community. As an international movement, L'Arche communities
match disabled adults with assistants in Christian-influenced homes to share
life as family and friends. "L'Arche" means "the ark" in French, a reference
to Noah's Ark, which provided refuge from the storm. (Visit
www.latimes.com for the complete
article.)
Orange County Register (Sunday, March 3, 2002)
Fullerton to get L’Arche home, creating family for disabled
By Diane Rodecker
When God calls, you’d better not put him on hold. A Placentia woman who
has worked 16 years on a mission she believes was divinely inspired, says
she couldn't ignore God when he needed her help. Although her journey has
been slow, many Orange County people think Karen Carr is on the right path.
(Visit www.ocregister.com for the
complete article.)
Los Angeles Times (June 24, 2001)
A Healing Community of Two: L'Arche pairs caregivers with the disabled.
Together, they navigate life. The program plans to open a Fullerton site
By Mary Rourke
The communities are built from units of two, one person with a
disability, one person without, interlocking parts of a shared life. In
pairs they become family, and in pairs they navigate the world from the
shelter of "the ark" – L’Arche, as the concept was named by its French
Canadian creator. It’s a vision and a model for care of the disabled.
L’Arche has no "patients" or "clients." Disabled residents are "core members," the community's reason for being. Their caregivers are "assistants," who will spend five days and nights each week living one-on-one with their partners in a household of about six people. There's no going home at the end of a shift - this is home. And for most of the assistants, this life is also a spiritual calling. (Visit www.latimes.com for the complete article.)