Reclining around their large, oak wood table after dinner, they bounce jokes off one another and lean back with boisterous laughter, occasionally jumping up to write a particularly funny line on the quote board, before suddenly shifting into a somber conversation about workday frustrations or tough lessons from life in the city. I had the pleasure to witness this dynamic group of LVCers when I sat down with the Bonhoeffer Burrow over the weekend for a quick interview. We talked food, art, transit struggles, hangout spots, and more. Keep reading to catch the highlights. So let’s start with the name. I understand it has toRead More →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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