Wednesday, July 26, 2023 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
New Orleans, LA – The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana has received a grant of $1,250,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to develop a creative, new approach to Christian Education. The Diocese of Louisiana will use grant funds to launch “Episco-parenting Care...
Friday, June 2, 2023 | Community Ministry, Message from Bishop Duckworth
Happy Pentecost! It is hard for me to believe that 6 months have passed since my ordination and consecration as the 12th bishop of Louisiana. And, what a wonderful whirlwind it has been! The time has been filled with blessings that are hard to describe and...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
The Gaudet Committee announces the awarding of 24 community grants for the 2023 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, March 15, 2023 | Community Ministry, Reflections
by Deacon Jay Albert Deacon Jay Albert at Interfaith Prayer Service for the Homeless While serving at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lakeview, New Orleans, as my first assignment, I looked for an outreach program that would involve the laity. I wanted a program that...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
The Gaudet Committee announces the awarding of 18 community grants for the 2022 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...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 | Community Ministry
Lester Mut with Khalid Hudson, the lead organizer for Together Baton Rouge by Lester Mut, a seminarian for the diaconate; St. Margaret’s, Baton Rouge One of our seminarians for the diaconate, Lester Mut, has partnered with Together Baton Rouge to work towards a...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 | Community Ministry, Reflections
“You can’t help anyone if they don’t want help.” I can’t count the number of times I have heard that statement from family, friends and or coworkers who would rather tolerate the inappropriate behavior of an individual under the influence of alcohol or other drugs...
Friday, December 31, 2021 | Community Ministry, Reflections
by the Very Rev. Stephen Crawford, rector of St. Mary’s, Franklin, and member of the Gaudet Fund Committee. Frances Joseph Gaudet is a Saint. It really is a marvelous thing that we would recognize this. It was a hundred years ago (1921) that the Episcopal...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
Greetings, I’m John Pitzer, one of the co-chairs of The Community Mission Appeal, also known as CMA. CMA is a way for the Diocese to help certain ministries that are in need of financial help and support. Formerly known as the Bishops Annual Mission Appeal, the...
Friday, October 8, 2021 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
Three Things You Can Do to Help with Hurricane Recovery in the Diocese of Louisiana:Southeast Louisiana is still reeling one month following Hurricane Ida. Your help is needed now more than ever. 1. Volunteer for Hurricane Ida reliefVolunteer with our diocese to clean...
Monday, September 13, 2021 | Community Ministry
Trinity Loaves and Fishes NEW ORLEANS, September 5-11, 2021 — Trinity Loaves and Fishes volunteers making sandwiches and feeding hundreds of people every day this week throughout the French Quarter and Central City. [Photographs provided by Trinity Loaves and...
Monday, September 6, 2021 | Community Ministry
Trinity Loaves and Fishes NEW ORLEANS, August 31, 2021 — Deacon Ben Nobles and Trinity Loaves and Fishes distributed meals made by Culture Aid NOLA. NEW ORLEANS, September 1, 2021 — Trinity Loaves and Fishes handed out 14 cases of water in New Orleans....
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
Food/Water/Supplies Parish-by-parish List by NOLA.com https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_640ba81a-0c24-11ec-8e55-f370fd879aa7.html Parish-by-parish list by WWLTV...
Thursday, August 5, 2021 | Community Ministry, Reflections
by the Rev Séamus Doyle, member of the Addiction Recovery Ministry; permanent supply priest for St. John’s, Kenner, and St. Timothy’s, LaPlace In 1936, in his book, Toward the Future, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote: “The day will come when, after...
Thursday, July 22, 2021 | Churchwork, Community Ministry
by Karen Mackey, Diocese of Louisiana The Formation of the Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative After Hurricane Katrina A week after Hurricane Katrina, the Very Rev. David duPlantier, dean of Christ Church Cathedral, was listening to an NPR’s All Things...
