Host coordinator
Abe Okwuosa
Abe hosted the Kenton house for six years and now spends Tuesday nights driving between the others. He answers the network phone and remembers everybody's allergies.
Hosting
Open the door. Make the rice.
Every Lantern house began with someone who said yes to one evening a week. Here is what that actually involves.
What a host does
Less than you think, more than nothing
Hosts open their home once a week, make one main dish and keep an eye on the clock. The conversation is led by a different person each week, and there is a schedule for washing up.
Every host is paired with a coach from another house and meets with the other hosts on the first Saturday of the month for breakfast and honest talk.
- A living room that seats twelve, chairs can be borrowed
- One main dish a week, reimbursed if you ask
- Background check and a short safeguarding course
- A year's commitment, then a review
Becoming a host
Four months from yes to your first supper
Step 1: Coffee with Abe
An hour to talk through your home, your week and your worries. No commitment.
Step 2: Visit three houses
See how other hosts do it, from the chaotic to the very tidy.
Step 3: Co-host for eight weeks
Help run an existing house before it splits and half of it comes to you.
Step 4: Open your door
Your first evening, with your coach in the room and a pan of something in the oven.
For hosts
Guides and forms
Everything a new host needs, all short.
- 1.8 MBDownload
The host handbook
The rhythm of an evening, splitting a house and when to call for help.
Guides202616 pages
- 420 KBDownload
Luke, autumn reading plan
A chapter a week with three questions for each.
ReadingsSep 20266 pages
- 58 KBDownload
Safeguarding course sign-up
Needed once for every host and co-host.
Forms2026–27
- 900 KBDownload
Supper for twenty on $40
Twelve recipes the hosts swear by.
GuidesMar 202610 pages
Nothing matches.
The people behind the hosts
Coordinators
Lantern has no paid pastor. Three volunteers keep the houses connected.
Talk about hosting
Start with coffee
Leave a note and Abe will suggest a time. It is a conversation, not an application.
- AddressMail: PO Box 11804, Portland, OR 97211
- Phone(555) 017-2604
- Emaillanterns@example.org
- OfficeTexts answered most evenings
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