Current Chicago LVCer Marit Johnson is serving this year in the ELCA Churchwide Office, Chicago Office as the Justice for Women Program Assistant. Living in intentional community can be one of the most rewarding and challenging parts of an LVC year. Marit shares, “Practicing patience and active listening is so important when living in community. It’s difficult, but I believe it creates stronger and more honest relationships.” Marit is a graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and is from Park River, North Dakota. #LVCVolunteerSpotlightRead More →

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“You can do it! You can do it!” The encouragement pulsed through the crowd as a young woman pulled herself up onto a signpost above the heaving throngs. Successful, she reached into her knapsack and removed a black camera from within. Flushed with her acrobatic effort she carefully wedged herself up against the pole and pointed her camera at the exuberant crowd and snapped picture after picture. Later when she reviewed the pictures she no doubt saw a multicolored crowd made up of hundreds of thousands of smiling, cheering, diverse marchers – all making up the mosaic of the Women’s March in Washington DC. TheRead More →

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Greetings! My name is Jamie Ulrich and I am the LVC National Office’s new intern! I am working as the Social Media Coordinator and will be helping out with managing LVC’s social media platforms, coming up with some new ideas for marketing LVC, and updating our database. I started in mid-January and will be here until mid-April, doing lots of great work for an amazing organization! I am doing my internship at LVC as a participant of the Lutheran College Washington Semester, which is a semester-long program comprised of students from various Lutheran colleges and universities from all over the country. My home school isRead More →

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Join the LVC team! We’re accepting application through Feb 28 for our Program Manager – East position. Based in Washington, DC, this position has program responsibilities in DC, Baltimore and Wilmington. Check out the job posting on Idealist here.Read More →

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As a member of the LVC community, you likely spend at least some part of your week making the world a better, more just and equitable place. Your gift to LVC helps us launch 89 additional social justice activists like you into the world. Did you know that 91% of LVC alumni continue to participate in social justice activities throughout their life – most often by choosing careers in the field? Alumni like Dan Swenson-Klatt (1984-85) who opened Butter Bakery Café in Minneapolis 10 years ago. Butter Bakery is located beneath a supportive housing community for young adults who have been homeless or are atRead More →

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