Sunday, August 30, 2015 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
Source: NOLA.com- It was the kind of reunion of old friends and family you might see at a wedding, or (more sadly), a funeral. That’s what made the first event in the Broadmoor neighborhood Saturday (Aug. 29) such a bittersweet affair. “An...
Saturday, August 29, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: The New Orleans Advocate — New Orleans, Louisiana- The Colton family — Edwina, Robert and daughter Kimberly — now call Sixth Street, in the Faubourg Delassize neighborhood of Central City home, thanks to Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative. A subsidiary...
Saturday, August 22, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS A decade after Hurricane Katrina and the floods that devastated New Orleans, some neighborhoods and communities have rebuilt, and many houses of worship have reopened their doors. Even though the work of restoring the...
Monday, August 17, 2015 | Community Ministry
On August 1, parishioners from St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church built a community garden for neighbors living in a nearby apartment complex. Learn more about the project:
Thursday, August 13, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: L’Observateur- LAPLACE – Gardening boxes and expert advice are available to anyone willing to take St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church up on their offering of ample land and resources connected to a community gardening project. Ruth Montgomery, a St....
Sunday, August 2, 2015 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
At the 78th General Convention it was announced that 55 grants totaling $1.5 million were awarded to projects in 46 dioceses across the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church in New Orleans was awarded a grant for a project entitled...
Monday, July 27, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: NOLA.com On Aug. 29, 50 of the anticipated 10,000 volunteers serving with Mayor Landrieu’s Katrina10 Citywide Day of Service, commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, will join Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative of New Orleans to...
Friday, July 10, 2015 | Community Ministry
The St. Paul’s Senior Center, a ministry of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, New Orleans, offers a place for senior citizens to overcome the obstacles of growing older. This is achieved by developing a program that will holistically improve the quality of a...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: The New Orleans Advocate — New Orleans, Louisiana When people with a similar cause come together, you sometimes get effective — and impressive — results. That’s what the members of Habitat for Humanity St. Tammany West. …Preachers, pastors and...
Sunday, June 21, 2015 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
by Deacon Suzie Johnston Grace Church of West Feliciana is situated among ancient live oaks where deer are oft seen, grazing the margins of the church cemetery in St. Francisville. Her members come from all walks of life, but the majority of them are well acquainted...
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | Community Ministry
from the St. John’s, Thibodaux, Facebook Page In early June St. John’s in Thibodaux and Trinity Episcopal Church in Morgan City joined with Ascension Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, for a mission trip to Dulac. Rector, Fr. Doug Lasiter, and members of...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: NOLA.com- On Saturday, June 6 at 9 a.m., Habitat for Humanity St. Tammany West kicked off its Building On Faith build in Mandeville. Churches, pastors and congregation members from the faith communities came together as one to kick off the construction by...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 | Community Ministry
On Tuesday, May 19, the second grade class from Christ Episcopal School visited a future Habitat for Humanity home, decorated banners and flower pots for future homeowners, and presented Habitat for Humanity St. Tammany West with a $270 donation. Source: Christ...
Thursday, May 14, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: NOLA.com St. Anna’s is restoring the mansion, which will serve as an Episcopalian school to help children in need. Some may recall seeing the beautiful, derelict old mansion, built in 1846, right before the interstate that split the Treme neighborhood...
Thursday, May 7, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: Daily Comet- Fragments of Terrebonne Parish’s oral tradition suggest a mysterious origin for a small pocket of bayou residents. Published explanations are hard to find, but a sketchy account appears in “Some Personal Recollections of The...
