"When researching the need for L'Arche in Atlanta, I learned there is an appalling number of people in our state who are forced to live in institutions simply because they have a mental disability. My prayer is that L'Arche in Atlanta will welcome people from some of these institutions and that it will be a sign of hope for the larger community. I also pray that L'Arche in Atlanta can help change the heart of our state so that it will provide a welcoming and life-affirming place for people of all abilities.

- Talley, Friends of L'Arche Atlanta Fundraising Committee Chair

Media & News

Pathways, Winter 2012
L'Arche International Comes to Georgia

Episcopal News Service, August 19, 2010
L'Arche communities: differing abilities, one life together
By Sharon Sheridan and Matthew Davies

Twenty years ago, Curt Armstrong went to France, intending to learn French and pick grapes before heading for graduate school. He ended up becoming an assistant in a L'Arche community, where people with and without cognitive disabilities live together, and found a calling. Today, he and his wife Ð who met through L'Arche Ð are helping to launch a new community of the worldwide, interfaith organization in Atlanta. Read More ...

Atlanta Business Chronicle, August 19, 2011
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - Mason gets hands-on with L'Arche renovation

Channing Mason is helping shine the light of compassion in a state that once pushed its mentally and developmentally disabled into its darkest corners. Read More ...

Construction Executive Magazine, November 2011
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT - Constructing an Integrated Community
By Heidi Hahn

To Channing Mason, director of operations for Benning Construction, contract negotiations and building code compliance are part of a regular day at the office. But for the L'Arche staff in Decatur, Ga., these highly specialized skills are what allowed the nonprofit organization to put more of its resources toward helping others. Read More ...