L’Arche Blue Ridge Mountains needs your help in order for our community to grow.

L’Arche Blue Ridge Mountains is the newest of 16 communities of faith and lifelong homes for people with developmental disabilities and their assistants in the United States. We are one of 130 communities worldwide. Recently we began building our second home.  We invite you to support our growing community through your generous gift. For more information about L’Arche www.larcheusa.org

More than just a home, L’Arche is a unique community where core members and assistants participate in the workings of the home, in relationships with each other, and in the celebration of each other’s gifts.  L’Arche provides an exceptional level of care while maintaining a strong spiritual presence in our home.

Many assistants say that their experience in a L'Arche community has helped them grow personally and find meaning and direction in life.  Life in L’Arche is shared and celebrated.
Katie, one of our former live-in assistants, was married last summer.  It was such a joy for the community to travel to and join in the celebration of her wedding.  During the reception a core member and I went out to the deck for some fresh air.  Looking back through the window, watching our community’s core members and assistants dancing and laughing with quests, we witnessed the full measure of love and celebration that is the heart of L’Arche.

Our community is expanding, we are growing, and it is only through your support that this is possiable. Your donations improve the lives of our core members each day in every aspect of their daily lives.

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How Your Gift Helps

• $1,500 provides mortgage for one month
• $700 provides groceries for one month (we have a garden and use the Food Bank)
• $600 pays for utilities for one month
• $375 pays for one month medical supplies not funded by Medicaid
• $350 pays for one core member or assistant to attend a L’Arche Retreat
• $50 allows us to buy materials to recycle candles and make new candles worth
• $300 $45 fills the gas tank for our two used vans
• $40 provides one dinner at the house
• There are many other ways your gifts can help and they are essential to us.