Thursday, December 22, 2016 | Community Ministry
The 2017 Grant recipients of the Community Mission Appeal have been announced. Thank you to everyone who gave to the Community Mission Appeal. The Community Mission Appeal exists in order to support the development and continuing strength of mission work at parishes...
Thursday, December 22, 2016 | Community Ministry
Gaudet Community Grant Applications Available Application due January 31, 2017 The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana desires to fund not-for-profit agencies that create, manage, and expand educational opportunities for African American children within the Diocese of...
Saturday, December 10, 2016 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
photographs and article by Marilyn O’Leary, Evangelism Chair, All Saints, Ponchatoula On December 3, we invited all ages in the community to a pre-Christmas tea our church, All Saints, Ponchatoula. We are a small congregation and had only the vision of a member...
Monday, December 5, 2016 | Community Ministry
Deacon Jay Albert discuss HIV/AIDS on World AIDS Day at St. George’s Episcopal Church, New Orleans, on Dec 1, 2016. Clergy from all faiths gathered at St. George’s Episcopal Church during this HIV/AIDS Awareness Week to renew their commitment and encourage faith...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 | Community Ministry
“This is wonderful,” she said. “This brings our community together. It’s important that we talk to each other.” St. Augustine’s, Metairie, is participating in this seven-month long program that creates better understanding among the...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 | Community Ministry
On this week’s show, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving by saving a place at the table for several remarkable stories.First, we spend a day riding along with the volunteers of the Trinity Loaves and Fishes food truck as they cater to the hungry and transient in New...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 | Community Ministry
St. James Episcopal Day School is an award winning, faith-based school serving grades Pre-K 3 through 5th in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Read what the students of St. James Episcopal School is doing this Advent to assist those affected by the August flooding in...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 | Annual Convention, Community Ministry
The Rt. Rev. Porter Taylor 179th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana – Grace and Addiction: Saved by Grace – Keynote speech and sermon of the Rt. Rev. Porter Taylor, Sixth Bishop of Western North Carolina. Full text can be found here:...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 | Annual Convention, Community Ministry
Flood Recovery- Working Towards the New Normal The flood recovery video presented to Convention on Friday, November 4. Part 1: Working Towards the New Normal – Interview with Bishop Thompson on impact of the flood on the diocese and Louisiana, impact of the...
Monday, October 17, 2016 | Community Ministry
Almost immediately, the United Methodist pastor received texts and messages from her members with a heartwarming request—“Let’s invite the Baptists and the Episcopalians to worship with us!” Read the article here: Louisiana Conference: Episcopalians, Baptists find a...
Saturday, October 15, 2016 | Community Ministry
Bearden’s discovery of St. Augustine’s pumpkin patch was a serendipitous moment for her, but for many longtime residents of the neighborhood and church parishioners, the pumpkin patch has been a favorite fall tradition for almost a quarter of a century....
Monday, October 10, 2016 | Community Ministry
As the waters of the Flood of 2016 started to recede, the Episcopal community began to rise up. In the ugliness of the carnage, the Episcopal community went to work for others and on rebuilding physical damage and loss to the school. In those early moments,...
Monday, October 10, 2016 | Community Ministry
The first day of school 2016 was a day we will never forget. We watched the unprecedented rainfall and prayed that it would stop. The waters rose and receded and we were eventually able to return to school to face our new “normal.” The PreK-4 students came back with...
Monday, September 26, 2016 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
On Saturday, September 24, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, WWOZ Radio, St. Anna’s, St. Paul’s. and the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana organized a team of over 60 people to gut eight flood-damaged homes in Baker, Baton Rouge, Denham Springs,...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 | Community Ministry
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 by: MARY GRACI The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, in partnership with WWOZ, are hosting a Community Day of Service where volunteers will help gut houses for victims of the recent floods in the Baton Rouge area. The volunteer day will...
