Photographs: Final Service for All Souls

Photographs from the celebration of the ministry of All Souls Episcopal Church & Community Center on January 8, 2017. In the service. parishioners and friends shared memories of their connection with All Souls as the diocese gathered to say our difficult goodbye...

Flood Recovery Five Months Later

by Deacon Elaine Clements, Diocesan Disaster Coordinator Deacon Elaine Clements reflects on the flood relief and recovery in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana five months after the devastating floods of August 2016. The single mom had three children and another on...

Proclaiming Hope in the Age of Mass Incarceration

The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana will sponsor a 3-Day Prison Ministry Conference, Proclaiming Hope in the Age of Mass Incarceration, beginning at noon on March 27, 2017, and ending at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. The host site for the Conference will be...

Bishop’s Address to the 179th Convention

The Rt. Rev. Morris K. Thompson, Jr., Eleventh Bishop of Louisiana, addresses the 179th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana on November 4, 2016. See full transcript below video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHv6A9s9s4?rel=0   November 4, 2016 The...

Faith in the forest — Camp Hardtner celebrates 75 years in Cenla

Anniversary celebration set for SaturdayCamp Hardtner started as a summer camp for Episcopal youth from across the state, and while that mission continues, it is also a place for youth, lay adult and clergy retreats, meetings, a special needs camp called Camp Able,...

St. Margaret’s Welcomes Their New Priest-in-Charge

Sunday, September 11, the people of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church welcomed the Rev. Tommy Dillon as their new priest-in-charge. The service opened up with a renewal of the  baptismal covenant and included a time for Dillon to anoint the hands of his new...

Interim Executive Director Appointed for Solomon Center

  Bishop Thompson has appointed William “Bill” Soileau as the Interim Executive Director of the Solomon Episcopal Conference Center. Soileau is a member of Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans and has served on the Solomon Center Board for the past...

Clergy Transitions August 2016

  Deacon Charles deGravelles was assigned by Bishop Thompson to serve as deacon at St. Andrew’s, Bayou Dularge. He will continue to serve as deacon at Trinity, Baton Rouge. The Vestry of St. Margaret’s, Baton Rouge, has called the Rev. Tommy Dillon to...

Churches rally to assist flooded Louisiana | Church Times

The dioceses of Louisiana and Western Louisiana are helping to co-ordinate recovery-operations, and were urging people to donate money rather than second-hand goods to the relief effort. Karen Mackey from the diocese of Louisiana said: “The churches in our diocese are...