About us

Board President - Bob Campbell- rcampbell@shaw.ca

Community Leader/Executive Director - Doug Wiebe - larche@telusplanet.net

Community Coordinator Tim Wiebe cmtycord@telusplanet.net

Administrator - Shonna Kurkilahti - shonnak@telus.net

Assistants Coordinator - Marie Moyer - marie.m@telus.net

Formation Coordinator - Patrick Lenon - jplenon@telusplanet.net

L’Arche Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada) provides an extraordinary opportunity for men and women from around the world with and without developmental disabilities to share, live, work, and learn together. Many local people participate in the life of our community as committed friends and respite workers. Sharing life with individuals with developmental disabilities at L’Arche is a counter-cultural life-style choice. It is a choice to share in the incredible gifts of individuals with developmental disabilities.

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Seeing with New Eyes:
Experiencing Musical Theatre with Brad.
Written by Samantha Cavanagh, former Assistant at Ruah House.

If you've ever been to a junior high school musical you can imagine the atmosphere: a packed house filled with the parents, grandparents, siblings and friends of the "stars in waiting" who are giving the performance of their lives in sometimes screechy pubescent voices.

At L’Arche Lethbridge we live together in an Intentional Christian Community where our lives are signs of hope and love.

L'Arche Lethbridge began on November 1, 1991 when three persons with intellectual disabilities and two assistants began living and sharing life together. A second home was opened in March of 1999.

We are people with and without intellectual disabilities, living and sharing life in community. L'Arche Lethbridge belongs to the International Federation of L'Arche, who's mission is to live together in community where our lives are signs of hope and love.