In the News: 18 congregations bless Family Promise center

  Source: The New Orleans Advocate — New Orleans, Louisiana   Reflecting a broad-based community response to family homelessness, pastors and members of more than 18 St. Tammany churches recently gathered to dedicate the Family Promise of St. Tammany...

Blessing of the Fleet on Bayou Dularge

[srizonfbalbum id=10] Article and photographs by Karen Mackey, Communications Coordinator, Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana- On April 26, gaily decorated boats with colorful flags and horns blaring paraded along the muddy waters of Bayou Dularge in Louisiana for the...

Lunch With C.S. Lewis Closes for Spring Semester

by The Rev. Drew Rollins, Chaplain, St. Alban’s Chapel      Many thanks to everyone who so faithfully supports our  “Lunch with C. S. Lewis” ministry here at St. Alban’s Chapel on the campus of LSU. We closed out our spring semester series...

2015 Gaudet Community Grant Recipients Announced

  On April 21, the Gaudet Committee announced the awarding of seven community grants. The Gaudet Community Grant provides funding for not-for-profit agencies that create, manage, and expand educational opportunities for African American children within the...

In the News: Black, white and bottom of the bowl: Broadmoor rises again

Source: NOLA.com …Broadmoor had remained diverse — many say it is a microcosm of New Orleans’ broader social, economic and racial makeup. But it also had its ills. Between the 1980s and the early 2000s, many of the people who could afford to leave...

In the News: Housing for the homeless

Source: The Slidell Independent –    SLIDELL – Over two years of work to create a program that can provide truly homeless St. Tammany families with a place to stay, and rebuild their lives, is on the verge of beginning at over a dozen churches around the parish....

In the News: Gardening project benefits Episcopal

Source: Gardening project benefits Episcopal | Southside | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, Louisiana Growing lettuce is harder than Eden Guirard realized, the Episcopal fifth-grader said Feb. 5, standing in front of lush, green heads of varying sizes growing in a...

Interfaith prayer service held for homeless

[Source: The New Orleans Advocate — New Orleans, Louisiana]   An Interfaith Prayer Service for the New Orleans homeless was held Dec. 14 at St. Joseph Church on Tulane Avenue in New Orleans. Religious leaders of many faiths participated by reading passages from...