by Katie Guertin-Anderson and the Tahoma Hope Community
May the Welcome Center be a place where…
People of all abilities are invited to foster the mission of L’Arche Tahoma Hope.
Bridges connect our community across growing divisions, and where fear, weakness and vulnerability become our strengths and offerings to create a more understanding world.
Volunteers can donate the most precious commodity in our universe, the gift of time.
All who enter feel loved, safe and that they belong.
New beginnings are celebrated—with patience in the chaos and hope in the unknown.
We can dance, sing and be silly.
Our lives are celebrated.
We can learn more sign language.
New friendships are built — to both draw people into our community and to launch some of us out into the community around us.
May the Welcome Center inspire…
Creativity, growth and fun engagement.
Discovery of interests and passions that have lain dormant.
Nourishment for our bodies and our spirits and improvement in our cooking skills.
Growth in listening — to self, to others, to the whole.
Sparks of new growth in our community.
Possibility!
May this labyrinth remind us of our own spiritual paths toward wholeness, wisdom, belonging and connection.
May the offices here offer open doors where those with differing experiences can grapple together in the search for common ground.
May the Welcome Center be filled with the joy and laughter of our core members, and may their joy and laughter spill over into every corner of the L’Arche Tahoma Hope Community.
The Welcome Center is so much more than this building. We know that true welcome, hospitality, love and belonging rest within each of us… those who have dreamed, envisioned, funded and built this space, and those who will abide here and make it home. Whether it is here or somewhere else, may we all find places of welcome in our lives — places we can be whole, places in which we are loved truly and fully, places where we are known and celebrated — places where we belong.
