Sisters Luke Boiarski and Nancy Gerth, along with eight other Sisters from the Charity Federation, joined 22 young adults from Canada, Kansas, New York and Ohio in New Orleans, La., from January 4-9 to continue assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina. The group did interior and exterior painting, assisted with a plumbing project, worked on yard clean up, and assisted with arranging a food pantry at Corpus Christi Parish. While in New Orleans, the group stayed at the House of Charity, a newly acquired house for the Charity Federation.
Would you like to change someone's life? The SCN Lay Mission Volunteer Program, sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, invites lay women and men of all ages and religions into service with economically poor people in Belize, Mexico, Appalachia and New Orleans.
Friday, January 22, 2010
New Orleans - January 2010
Sisters Luke Boiarski and Nancy Gerth, along with eight other Sisters from the Charity Federation, joined 22 young adults from Canada, Kansas, New York and Ohio in New Orleans, La., from January 4-9 to continue assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina. The group did interior and exterior painting, assisted with a plumbing project, worked on yard clean up, and assisted with arranging a food pantry at Corpus Christi Parish. While in New Orleans, the group stayed at the House of Charity, a newly acquired house for the Charity Federation.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Sister works to rebuild communities
Imagine waking one morning knowing your world would soon be ripped apart and likely never able to be wholly returned to that treasured state called "home".
Click here to read the whole story from the The Times Leader.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)