I am not normally an emotional person. Since my days of the post-Katrina FEMA offices to assist with disaster communications to standing up the Louisiana National Guard Headquarters in an Army Base in Baton Rouge, I have dealt with more than my fair share of crisis situations. Even in evacuating…
Dear Friends of Saint John the Evangelist Parish, Over the past several weeks, we have witnessed the destructive power of nature as we have watched people’s lives devastated by the recent storms in Texas, the islands in the Caribbean, and now in our State of Florida. Many of you evacuated…
We have all been watching the devastation in Texas from Hurricane Harvey, and our hearts and souls are yearning to help. We are blessed to have a unique opportunity to directly support those impacted with our Parish Family’s Stewardship. Next weekend, we will have a second collection specifically for two…
The Season of Creation spans five weeks between the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (September 1) and the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi (October 4). This “time for creation” offers, in the words of Pope Francis: Individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to…
As I was saying on our Capital Campaign update, we have been dealing with some significant rains recently. As a way to assist our Parish Family who may have come to the church in sunny weather but are trying to leave in a monsoon, we determined that a set of…
