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...serve food and interact with those spending the holiday at the shelter. “It’s definitely a wonderful community experience,” said Jill F. Stockwell ’08, the shelter’s volunteer coordinator. The student-run shelter, better known as UniLu because of its location under the University Lutheran Church, recruits temporary volunteers to fill the shifts of students on vacation during winter, intersession, and spring recesses. The international contingent on campus, for whom the Thanksgiving holiday does not have as much significance, will spend the break bonding with each other...
...both. “My pastoral ministry gave me motivation and questions,” Shaner says, “and my academic work gave me the energy.” Now, Shaner is an active congregation member at Cambridge’s University Lutheran Church (better known as UNILU). Although she’s not an ordained minister, she frequently preaches in the area, even presiding over sacraments at the discretion of the bishop.Shaner is also a candidate for a doctor of theology (ThD) at HDS. She aspires to work at an academic seminary and also preach...
Every winter vacation, intersession, and spring break, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, commonly referred to as UNILU in reference to the University Lutheran Church in whose basement the shelter is housed, must search for volunteers to work during the weeks that most students are at home enjoying their breaks. The shelter, which provides lodging and food for Cambridge’s homeless every night from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m., is run entirely by Harvard students. It operates from November to April, meaning that its operation sometimes coincides with Harvard vacations, times when it is notoriously difficult to find volunteers...
...Joubert, who speaks disdainfully of the “crackheads and druggies” that she says populate UniLu, the move to living full-time in the station wagon was a small sacrifice to make for her canine companion...
Shelters find themselves crunched for space as they struggle to house those who can’t find homes of their own. Yi-Chen “Lilly” Zhang ’07, a supervisor at UniLu, says that overcrowding and a lack of resources have even caused fights to erupt among those who sleep at the shelter...