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A Day in the Life

Somehow, it is already October and we are almost two months into the year of service with LVC. The leaves are changing, the air is getting chillier, and I am still getting used to my new life here in the Twin Cities! My name is Bex Klafter, I’m originally from New York City (yup, I grew up in Manhattan), and I graduated from Carleton College in June with a BA in Environmental Studies. Through LVC, I’m living with 5 other volunteers in “Redeemer House” — right across the street from where I work at Redeemer Center for Life! RCFL, for short, is a non-profit focusingRead More →

2018-10-15
By: Bex Klafter
On: October 15, 2018
In: Volunteer Blog
Tagged: Carleton, Food Justice, Minneapolis, Twin Cities, Volunteer

TAMVU, TAMEU, TAMWU!  Food and Community at Redeemer House

At National Orientation, our LVC leaders succeeded in preparing us for the challenges of communal living.  As a house, Redeemer spent hours considering our communication styles, our conflict resolution skills, and the goals and expectations we had for ourselves.  However, nothing could have prepared us for just how much fun we would have! For cynical folks like me, this introduction may seem extremely canned and insincere.  Don’t get me wrong, like any LVC house we have ongoing debates, struggles, and conversations around how we want to live, where our priorities lie, and how to spend our money and time.  But I really must emphasize howRead More →

2018-09-20
By: Dylan Walker
On: September 20, 2018
In: Volunteer Blog
Tagged: Community, Minneapolis, St. Olaf College, Twin Cities, Volunteer

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

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

LVC17 Volunteer Spotlight: Grace Corbin

Grace (right) with Twin Cities Volunteer Emily Campbell (left) at the Pipeline 3 Protest organized by Honor the Earth and MN350 One fun fact about #LVC17 Volunteer Grace Corbin is that she is one of three twins serving in the Twin Cities this year (LVC Staff Member Deirdre Kanzer “promises” she didn’t do that intentionally…). She is from Grantsburg, WI and is a recent alum of Augsburg College (now Augsburg University), where she received a degree in Youth and Family Ministry. She is a huge Harry Potter fan, a body hair advocate, and loves music and volleyball. Grace is serving at the Minneapolis Area Synod ofRead More →

2017-11-02
By: Deirdre Bagley
On: November 2, 2017
In: Volunteer Profile
Tagged: Community, Cultivate Justice, ELCA, Living LVC Values, Twin Cities, Volunteer, Volunteer Profile, Volunteer Spotlight
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