LCC Hospitality House Ministry
“Share with the Lord’s people, who are in need. Practice hospitality.” Romans 12:13
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TOUR AN LCC HOSPITALITY HOUSE!
TOUR AN LCC HOSPITALITY HOUSE!
We’re excited to show you the third LCC Hospitality House, which is located at Faith Lutheran Church in Carpentersville, Illinois. This video highlights the incredible work and support provided by the church, generous donors like you, and countless volunteers.
ABOUT HOSPITALITY HOUSE
"Show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it."
Hebrews 13:2
Hebrews 13:2
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The Hospitality House Ministry provides a tangible and spiritual symbol of God’s love through Christian Hospitality. It is a collaboration between Lutheran Church Charities and Lutheran Churches to provide low-to-no-cost short term housing for people in need. The churches open their unused property such as parsonages, closed schools and apartments to people facing a crisis. Lutheran Church Charities guides the church in developing a ministry team to journey with the individuals and families, offering the mercy, compassion, presence and God’s word while equipping them to transition to a more stable situation.
Currently, there are three LCC Hospitality Houses — with a fourth house being prepared. It is through God’s handiwork that people come together to use their God-given gifts to make the Hospitality Houses a reality. LCC Lutheran Early Response Teams (LERT) and local businesses donate their time and services to repair and maintain the homes, while surrounding churches offer unique ways to help the families in the Hospitality Houses. It is a network of people and churches coming together to support the ministry so people can experience the life-changing love of Jesus Christ. |
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OPENING THE DOOR FOR FAMILIES IN CRISIS
Pastors Phil Robarge and Walter Ramirez of Tabor Lutheran Church Chicago share how the Tabor Hospitality House has a unique purpose.
LCC's newest Hospitality House being prepared in the heart of ChicagoNorthwest of Chicago’s downtown, where towering buildings meet vibrant neighborhoods, many families quietly face a difficult reality: the cost of housing has risen beyond what they can afford.
It’s common to find multiple-generation families sharing small living spaces, not by choice, but by necessity, especially in apartments surrounding Tabor Lutheran Church. Parents, grandparents, and children often crowd into units designed for far fewer people, simply because stable housing is increasingly out of reach. For some families, even this arrangement is not enough. A job loss, a medical emergency, or an unexpected crisis can push them beyond their limits, leaving them with nowhere to turn. |
Tabor Lutheran Church is responding to this urgent need by opening the fourth Lutheran Church Charities Hospitality House to provide a safe, temporary place for families who need stability, encouragement, and the opportunity to regain their footing.
More than just a place to stay, it will be a place where families are welcomed with dignity, compassion, and practical support. When kind-hearted supporters like you invest in families, you strengthen the entire community. By supporting the Hospitality House at Tabor Lutheran Church, you become part of a ministry that brings practical help, spiritual hope, and lasting change to families in crisis. |
"HOSPITALITY HOUSE IS MORE THAN A PLACE TO STAY"
Paige Clendenin explains how much the Hospitality House in Carpentersville, IL, has blessed her family during a medical crisis.
During one family's medical crisis, Hospitality House kept them togetherIn early 2022, COVID was a menace to the Clendenin family.
Everyone got it: Husband David, wife Paige, their three adopted children, David’s mother. The entire family. Contracting the virus led to David needing a double lung transplant, and the family traveled out-of-state to Chicago for the procedure. David ended up on a ventilator for three weeks and in a medically induced coma after. With a paralyzed diaphragm, he would be in intensive care for months. All the family could do was pray. The Clendenins had been staying in a single motel room so they could be close to David, but as his treatment timeline became |
longer and more complex, the family needed a more permanent place to stay. Heightened anxiety, restlessness, and limited space to play increased strain among the children, including more frequent epileptic seizures for daughter Missy.
Their hospital case manager connected them with Lutheran Church Charities and Faith Lutheran Church in Carpentersville, IL, which had a property where the family could live until David recovered. It's called Hospitality House. “But we like to think of it as a home,” said Faith Lutheran’s Pastor Mark Frusti. |
A HOME OF HOPE: VETERAN'S FAMILY WELCOMED
Faith Lutheran Church in Carpentersville, IL, has once again witnessed how God can work through ordinary encounters to provide extraordinary care. In August 2025, the church’s Hospitality House opened its doors to a veteran and his young family, offering them refuge in a time of crisis.
The family—parents with three small children—had been working hard to build a stable life. But when financial plans to purchase the home they were renting unexpectedly collapsed, they suddenly faced eviction with only weeks to find a new place to live.
By what many call divine timing, one of Faith’s Hospitality House Care Team members crossed paths with the father at a local radio station, where he was working. In conversation, he shared the heavy burden he was carrying—the challenges of adjusting to life after military service, and the devastating reality that his family was on the brink of homelessness.
The family—parents with three small children—had been working hard to build a stable life. But when financial plans to purchase the home they were renting unexpectedly collapsed, they suddenly faced eviction with only weeks to find a new place to live.
By what many call divine timing, one of Faith’s Hospitality House Care Team members crossed paths with the father at a local radio station, where he was working. In conversation, he shared the heavy burden he was carrying—the challenges of adjusting to life after military service, and the devastating reality that his family was on the brink of homelessness.
“As a donor to LCC, it is amazing what you are contributing. Look around this house, it looks like a home. It looks like a place you could live. That is not happening without you. You are offering and participating in the story of other people who are in crisis and yet you offer stability.”
- Site Leader Eric Hawley, Trinity Galewood - Chicago
- Site Leader Eric Hawley, Trinity Galewood - Chicago