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Volunteer Blog (Page 6)

Hello from Wellstone House!

The new residents of Wellstone House are so excited for this year! We’ve been spending the last (almost) month getting to know our neighborhood, our job placement sites, and perhaps most importantly, each other. Our house, in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis is beautiful, homey, and welcoming! Despite our love for our new home, we quickly learned that our house has some fun “quirks,” including dead animals! We started off our LVC journey strong when we bonded over a dead mouse just before going to bed on our first night together. At 11:30 PM after quickly deciding bedroom assignments, this discovery was a uniqueRead More →

2018-09-18
By: Natalie Jacobson
On: September 18, 2018
In: Volunteer Blog
Tagged: Carleton College, Community, Minneapolis, Twin Cities, Volunteer

Greetings from Casa Oscar Romero!

Greetings from our casa to yours! My name is Jamie and I’m one of the six LVCers living in Chicago in Casa Óscar Romero. My fellow housemates are Bre, Namarig, Levi, Weber, and Liam. We have had a great first few weeks together so far! Our house is located in the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago, and our placement organizations are located all throughout the Chicagoland area. My placement is at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Churchwide office near O’Hare. I am the assistant for the ELCA’s Justice for Women program. I absolutely love my placement and can’t wait for the upcoming months ahead.Read More →

2018-09-17
By: Jamie Ulrich
On: September 17, 2018
In: Volunteer Blog
Tagged: Chicago, Community, Thiel College, Volunteer

Humor, Uncertainty, & Hammarskjöld

Three weeks ago, I boarded an afternoon Southwest flight and moved across the country. Thankfully, this was not the first time I had done such a move, from Wisconsin to Washington DC, having interned in the District during the summer of 2017. And I was even more grateful to not be alone. Whereas my last move was solo, now I was accompanied by 16 mostly strangers, all bound for DC. I say strangers, but maybe folks-I-met-five-days-ago-and-lived-with-in-close-quarters-and-did-a-lot-of-soul-searching-orientation-work-with is the more apt term – or “FIMFDAALWICQADALOSSOWW” for short. Lutheran Volunteer Corps Orientation had challenged my comfortability in many ways – from little to no introvert time toRead More →

2018-09-14
By: Wes Isberner
On: September 14, 2018
In: Volunteer Blog
Tagged: Community, UW - La Crosse, Volunteer, Washington DC

Howdy from the Heartland!

The new members of Hillstrom House are stoked and ready to stir up a storm (in the spirit of the Stormchasers, the local baseball team) in Omaha, Nebraska! The five of us have settled well in our new home in North Omaha, a former convent complete with two kitchens, a small chapel, and a flourishing garden. After exploring the many secrets and amenities of the house, we got busy acquainting ourselves with the city. Old Market, which initially drew our interest, is a quaint commercial district downtown by the Missouri River, complete with rustic breweries, a free art gallery, a labyrinthine bookstore, and a weekendRead More →

2018-09-12
By: Joey Sechrist
On: September 12, 2018
In: Volunteer Blog
Tagged: Community, Omaha, Volunteer, Wittenberg University

Welcome to Winona!

Three weeks ago, I moved across the river from my hometown of St. Paul, into a 100-year-old house in Minneapolis. I did this with five housemates I’d met four days earlier at LVC’s National Orientation in Chicago. The housemates, in the photo from left to right, are Cassandra, from Ohio via the University of Dayton; Adam, from Iowa via Luther College; Hannah, from Wisconsin via Augsburg College; Kristen, from Colorado via St. Olaf College; and Disket, from India via St. Olaf College (I’m second from the right). As the only Minnesotan in the group, I might be expected to be the resident expert on theRead More →

2018-09-11
By: Linnea Peterson
On: September 11, 2018
In: Volunteer Blog
Tagged: Community, Luther College, Minneapolis, Twin Cities, Volunteer
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