Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | Community Ministry
by the Rev. John Pitzer, CMA Committee Co-Chair Let Love Open the Door, was the theme this year for the Community Mission Appeal. CMA, is a grant program to assist specific ministries in the diocese who are in need of financial assistance. The funds are raised from...
Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Churchwork, Community Ministry
by Dr. Caroline Caroson, Seminarian, The University of the South I received a UTO grant in January 2018 for my proposal “Pastoral Care to Refugees in the Arab World” and for work in the Diocese of Egypt, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. This was a terrific...
Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Churchwork, Community Ministry
by Lisa Lee, Co-chair of the Mission and Outreach Committee, and the Rev. Bryan Owens, Rector, St. Luke’s, Baton Rouge This year the parish church of St. Luke in Baton Rouge is responding to God’s call to more regularly and intentionally reach out into the community...
Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Churchwork, Community Ministry
by the Rev. Drew Rollins, Chaplain, St. Alban’s Chapel, Baton Rouge St. Alban’s Chapel is a mission-driven ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana that provides a place of refuge, hospitality, and worship for the students, faculty, staff, and wider...
Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Churchwork, Community Ministry
by the Rev. Rob Courtney, Rector, St. Paul’s, New Orleans “We need to have our own ministry.” I heard these words a lot in the wake of closing our St. Paul’s Homecoming Center in 2015. The Homecoming Center was the ministry our church formed in response to...
Thursday, August 30, 2018 | Community Ministry
by Gale Roy, Arts Council of Pointe Coupee Executive Director The Arts Council of Pointe Coupee is pleased with the second round of Art on the Go camps which visited the Innis Library on Tuesday, July 10 and St. Augustine Catholic Church on Thursday, July 12. Twenty...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | Community Ministry, General Convention
by the Very Rev. Bill Terry, rector of St. Anna’s Episcopal Church St. Anna’s Church has long had a reputation of being located in a kind of hardscrabble part of town. The fact is St. Anna’s is a bit odd. But then again so are the people that are...
Thursday, May 31, 2018 | Community Ministry
May 14-18 was the week we prepared for the upcoming hurricane season. While the season officially begins June 1, we have already seen a named storm develop in the Gulf of Mexico. Please take the time now to prepare your home, family, and church. Scroll down below to...
Thursday, May 31, 2018 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
The 22nd Presentation of Honored Women By the Episcopal Church Women In the Diocese of Louisiana May 19, 2018 Christ Episcopal Church Covington, Louisiana Recognized for her ministry and service in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Delores Walker Jenkins Delores...
Monday, April 30, 2018 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
by the Rev. Jay Angerer, All Saint’s Episcopal Church, River Ridge On a snowy afternoon in Cleveland Ohio in March, I was asked to answer one of the most difficult questions any of us are ever asked to answer. “What does Jesus Christ mean to you?” Eventually, I...
Monday, April 30, 2018 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
by the Rev. Christopher Capaldo, Church of the Holy Communion, Plaquemine I was absolutely blessed to have the opportunity to help represent the Diocese of Louisiana at the 2018 Evangelism Matters conference at St. Paul’s in Cleveland Ohio. It was an opportunity to...
Monday, April 23, 2018 | Community Ministry
Join us this week on Facebook as we celebrate the Earth. Help us understand how our diocese can work together in the care of creation. Take the Creation Care Survey here: http://bit.ly/environment-survey. We will post resources and prayers on our Facebook Page, or see...
Sunday, April 22, 2018 | Community Ministry
Dear Friends in Christ, Bishop Thompson has formed an environmental commission in an effort to bring awareness of the increasing challenges facing our natural environment and therefore the people of Southeast Louisiana. The Environmental Commission will facilitate...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
The Gaudet Committee announced the awarding of ten community grants for the 2018 program year. The Gaudet Community Grant provides funding for not-for-profit agencies that create, manage, and expand educational opportunities for African-American children within the...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
On February 17, members of All Saints’, River Ridge; St. Augustine’s, Metairie; St. John’s, Kenner; and St. Martin’s, Metairie, volunteered with the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation to plant 600 trees in Manchac, Louisiana, in an effort to...
