St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

St. Andrew's is pleased to welcome Recovery Room. Meetings are open and begin at 6:15 PM on Wednesdays in the Parish Hall (enter at 8017 Zimple).

St. Andrew's hosts several scouting programs including, Boy Scouts, Junior Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Venture Scouts, and Brownie Scouts.

The Chalstrom Parish House of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church serves as a STAIR tutoring site.

About STAIR:

Start The Adventure In Reading (STAIR) is a local, volunteer-based non-profit literacy program that provides volunteers from throughout the community to tutor and mentor public school students who need help learning to read and are in danger of academic failure.  STAIR’s overall mission is to improve the reading skills and self-esteem of lower elementary school students. http://stairnola.org

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Book Club meets once a month to discuss books having to do with the lived experiences of a diversity of people. We have primarily been focused on the lives and struggles of people of color but are also doing work with other marginalized peoples including LGBTQ+, people who are neuro diverse, and the poor.

The Episcopal Church, under Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, encourages us to prioritize Creation Care. Along with Evangelism and Racial Reconciliation, Bishop Curry has asked us to mark Going Green as a hallmark of the work of the Church. Under the direction of or Going Green Chair, Martha Fleming.

St. Andrew's is taking actionable steps through Sustain Island Home, Energy Audits for the Church and School, evaluation of procurement, ridding our campus of single use items etc. 

We are also running special campaigns around the Feast of St. Francis in the fall and Earth Day in the Spring.

St. Andrew's sponsors an OPEN meeting of Overeaters Anonymous.

"Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food."

Together New Orleans is a broad-based coalition of congregations and community-based organizations in the greater New Orleans area, with the capacity to address community problems large and small. The coalition is deliberate about crossing the lines of race, religion, neighborhood, and political affiliation. We work on issues affecting families and communities, and we are a strictly non-partisan organization.

 Together New Orleans has three basic goals:

1. to build relationships across our community based on trust and a willingness to listen to each other, 
2. to equip our members and leadership with skills and practices to get results, and
3. to achieve change on concrete issues, as part of our common call to justice.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church is a member of the Carrollton/St. Charles group.  The meetings are currently on zoom and meet monthly for 90mins.

Are you seeking comfort and healing after the death of a love one?

The ministry of  Walking the Mourner’s Path seeks to serve individuals who are in grief through a series of Eight Weekly Workshops.

Together in the small group workshops individuals:
– Acknowledge the pain and brokenness
– Recognize that each journey through grief is unique
– Share stories
– Experience both tears and laughter
– Find Healing and Joy

“Together we do what I cannot do alone.”

St. Andrew's believes that it is not necessary to always reinvent the wheel. Rather, when someone is doing something well, we are called to work with and support...not always run. This is why we are pleased to support the work of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church's ministry to the hungry. We send a team from St. Andrew's monthly to work and demonstrate God's care for the poor. 

​St. Andrew's as a dedicated team of volunteers who make sandwiches for Mt. Zion's ministry on the second Tuesday of every month at 11:30 AM at Chalstrom House.

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New Orleans Community Fridge is a mutual aid effort that provides a network to empower our neighbors in supporting each other through the offering of free food in Community Fridges. With the presence of Community Fridges, everyone has the opportunity to provide and to receive collective care as we work towards dismantling the systems that oppress us.  No one is fed, until everyone is fed.

NOCF has been adapting existing models, heavily inspired by NYC and Los Angeles, to create networks that specifically support our New Orleans communities.

St. Andrew's is working to keep the fridge at 8511 Hickory stocked. 

Saint Andrew's has a team that supports the Episcopal Prison Ministry (Church of the Transfiguration) at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) is sustained by both lay and ordained volunteers, who visit the prison to conduct worship services, teach classes, and most importantly, to make manifest the love of Christ by reaching out to build relationships and show concern for “the least of these” (Matt 25:40). As many will attest, the ministry that occurs is never unidirectional (i.e. from us to them), but rather, both groups find Christ in the other. In 2002, Episcopal volunteers began leading a Disciples of Christ in Community program (DOCC) at Angola – the first time a DOCC program has been offered to incarcerated persons. 

In partnership with Together New Orleans, in order to give our most vulnerable neighbors a break from the oppressive heat, Chalstrom House (the church's parish house at 1031 S Carrollton) serves as a cooling station when excessive heat warnings have been issued.