Neighborhood Benefit Christmas Tree Sale
Non-Profit Home Offers Christmas Trees
Portland – L’Arche Nehalem, a non-profit community based in East Portland in which persons with developmental disability and others live together in a family atmosphere, will be holding its annual Benefit Christmas Tree Sale at two locations from December 1-18. The tree lots, at the Safeway at SE 82nd and Burnside and in the Value Village parking lot at NE 44th and Hancock, will be open from 2:30-8:30 weekdays and 10-7 on weekends. A wide selection of reasonably priced Douglas and Noble firs, fresh cut from local farms and delivered frequently, are available from lots staffed with dozens of volunteers. This is the major fundraiser for L’Arche Nehalem, responsible for over 10% of its annual budget.
L'Arche Nehalem is one of a network of over 120 communities in 30 countries in which developmentally disabled people live as equal and valued members with assistants in a mutually supportive, faith-friendly family environment. By providing a safe and nurturing home with long-term relationships, L'Arche seeks to reveal the unique value and vocation of each person, and to change society by choosing to live in community as a sign of hope and love. More information about L’Arche Nehalem is available at http://www.larche-portland.org.
L’Arche Nehalem’s Christmas Tree Sale has been a Christmas fixture in East Portland for 16 consecutive years at 82nd and East Burnside. The second lot in the Hollywood District has been a great success since its opening in 2003. The lots and many of the trees are donated, as are hundreds of hours of labor from devoted friends of the community, some of whom have been helping with the Tree Sale since its inception. 100% of the net proceeds go directly to helping the residents of the community. The atmosphere around the L’Arche Christmas Tree Sale is a very special one. After visiting the one of the lots, a journalist from the Oregonian wrote, “In a wired world of scandals and wars, grace cuts through with the fresh-air scent of Christmas trees.” (Dec. 16, 2002)
L’Arche Nehalem opened its first home in East Portland in 1986. It was the response of two then-employees of the Catholic Archdiocese of Portland to a continual stream of requests for a residential situation for developmentally disabled persons that included the values of home, community, and spirituality. Nehalem Community became a member of the International Federation of L’Arche in 1990 and built a second house in East Portland in 1994. Four core members and three assistants live in each home, and the two homes work, play, celebrate, and pray together as a single community. As the Charter of L’Arche International instructs, “L’Arche communities are open and welcoming to the world around them. They form an integral part of life in their localities and seek to foster relationships with neighbors and friends.” Core members live and work, play and shop in their local neighborhood establishments, and a vibrant extended family of friends and neighbors support and benefit from friendship with the community.
There are sixteen L’Arche communities in the United States, with four in the Pacific Northwest and another in Southern California. The L’Arche movement began in 1964 in Trosly, France, when Jean Vanier invited two men with developmental disability to live with him. It has since spread around the world and along with Vanier has been honored worldwide as a unique model of community-based residential situations for people with disability. He is also the founder of the worldwide Faith and Light movement, which helps families of persons with developmental disability network with and support each other.
For more information, call 503-251-6901.
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Portland – L’Arche Nehalem, a non-profit community based in East Portland in which persons with developmental disability and others live together in a family atmosphere, will be holding its annual Benefit Christmas Tree Sale at two locations from December 1-18. The tree lots, at the Safeway at SE 82nd and Burnside and in the Value Village parking lot at NE 44th and Hancock, will be open from 2:30-8:30 weekdays and 10-7 on weekends. A wide selection of reasonably priced Douglas and Noble firs, fresh cut from local farms and delivered frequently, are available from lots staffed with dozens of volunteers. This is the major fundraiser for L’Arche Nehalem, responsible for over 10% of its annual budget.
L'Arche Nehalem is one of a network of over 120 communities in 30 countries in which developmentally disabled people live as equal and valued members with assistants in a mutually supportive, faith-friendly family environment. By providing a safe and nurturing home with long-term relationships, L'Arche seeks to reveal the unique value and vocation of each person, and to change society by choosing to live in community as a sign of hope and love. More information about L’Arche Nehalem is available at http://www.larche-portland.org.
L’Arche Nehalem’s Christmas Tree Sale has been a Christmas fixture in East Portland for 16 consecutive years at 82nd and East Burnside. The second lot in the Hollywood District has been a great success since its opening in 2003. The lots and many of the trees are donated, as are hundreds of hours of labor from devoted friends of the community, some of whom have been helping with the Tree Sale since its inception. 100% of the net proceeds go directly to helping the residents of the community. The atmosphere around the L’Arche Christmas Tree Sale is a very special one. After visiting the one of the lots, a journalist from the Oregonian wrote, “In a wired world of scandals and wars, grace cuts through with the fresh-air scent of Christmas trees.” (Dec. 16, 2002)
L’Arche Nehalem opened its first home in East Portland in 1986. It was the response of two then-employees of the Catholic Archdiocese of Portland to a continual stream of requests for a residential situation for developmentally disabled persons that included the values of home, community, and spirituality. Nehalem Community became a member of the International Federation of L’Arche in 1990 and built a second house in East Portland in 1994. Four core members and three assistants live in each home, and the two homes work, play, celebrate, and pray together as a single community. As the Charter of L’Arche International instructs, “L’Arche communities are open and welcoming to the world around them. They form an integral part of life in their localities and seek to foster relationships with neighbors and friends.” Core members live and work, play and shop in their local neighborhood establishments, and a vibrant extended family of friends and neighbors support and benefit from friendship with the community.
There are sixteen L’Arche communities in the United States, with four in the Pacific Northwest and another in Southern California. The L’Arche movement began in 1964 in Trosly, France, when Jean Vanier invited two men with developmental disability to live with him. It has since spread around the world and along with Vanier has been honored worldwide as a unique model of community-based residential situations for people with disability. He is also the founder of the worldwide Faith and Light movement, which helps families of persons with developmental disability network with and support each other.
For more information, call 503-251-6901.
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