Wendy DeBoer

M.A.

Life at LSTC is a communal project, more than anywhere I’ve ever been before.

Everyone pretty much knows everyone else, and they can tell when you are struggling or happy
or doing stupid things. But it isn’t like college, not like living in a dorm. It’s a bit more real, with families and dogs and new babies and people losing and gaining jobs. I guess it’s like a small town—if everyone in that small town not only believed in God, but also wanted to devote some part of his or her life to God’s work.

We have people from different walks of life, different cultures, even different languages, but you know that you can say “God” in casual conversation without raising eyebrows.

Of course, if we are a small town, we are a pretty strange small town, indeed; located in the middle of a big city, and in a part of a big city where things like poverty and homelessness are a part of life. It’s an odd juxtaposition which reminds me, lest I get too comfortable in my cozy little “God bubble,” that we cannot remove ourselves from the world, that we are part of the world.

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