St. Augustine's Episcopal Church

Parishioners from St. Augustine's Episcopal Church volunteer with the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration for worship services at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, LA.

Prisons we visit:

Louisiana State Penitentiary

Members of St. Augustine's Episcopal Church volunteer as CASA advocates.

About CASA:

The mission of the National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association, together with its state and local members, is to support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused or neglected child can be safe, establish permanence and have the opportunity to thrive. http://louisianacasa.org/

St. Augustine's Episcopal Church partners with a local public school, Bissonet Plaza Elementary, to provide support to students and families.

St. Augustine's Church has a "sister" church in economically depressed Tela, Honduras, Church of the Holy Spirit.

Shoebox Ministry

Each Christmas, the Christmas shoebox ministry elves of St. Augustine Episcopal Church send about 100 individually-wrapped shoeboxes fully-stuffed with gifts to the children of our sister church in Tela, Honduras, The Church of the Holy Spirit. Each box is designated a girl or boy of a particular age (lower school, middle school, high school). We include toys, personal items, and school supplies. 

Everyone and Anyone can join this ministry. We prepare all year by gathering gifts. Our all-hands effort is in October when we assemble and wrap the shoeboxes and prepare them for delivery to Tela.  You can make prayer cards whenever you have some free time. And you can pray for this ministry unceasingly. 

Contact: Susan Scotton

During Holy Week, parishioners of St. Augustine Episcopal Church collect socks to donate to the homeless.

St. Augustine's hosts its Pumpkin Patch every year in October featuring thousands of pumpkins and gourds in a myriad of sizes and colors.  We also sell jewelry, activity and carving kits, and our world-famous pumpkin bread!  School field trips are welcome, and we host the Pumpkin Palooza, a festival for the entire neighborhood, on a Saturday during the month.  The Patch serves as an opportunity for the community to come together to unload pumpkins and man the cash register and as outreach to the community.  Our volunteers are thrilled when a buyer says he or she has been coming to our Pumpkin Patch for twenty years!