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Emmanuel E-pistle
9/21/2009
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Outreach
We value our active outreach ministry. We believe that God calls us to bless others with that which God has blessed us. Our location in the heart of Newport offers ample opportunity to do so within our own community and beyond. Compassion for our neighbors is an Emmanuel tradition.
Newport may have a reputation as a wealthy and cosmopolitan resort city, but it also suffers from one of the highest poverty rates in Rhode Island. We thus have a history of starting outreach programs to those in need. Some have long since grown beyond our walls to become community-wide institutions. These include: Island Hospice, the Church Community Corporation (affordable housing), and the Maher Center (a sheltered workshop) whose roots include a former Emmanuel support group for parents of special-needs children. Our “Soup’s On,” offering free hot meals, began in 1982 and has since become part of a community network that helps insure that hungry people can find sustenance for body and soul throughout the year. We have also been a long-time supporter of Lucy’s Hearth, a shelter for homeless women and their children. We do not define the word “neighbor” narrowly. Over the years, our annual mission trips have helped people in need from Grenada in the Windward Islands, to Appalachia and New Mexico, to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. During Easter Week in 2009, we sent 14 people to the Broadmoor District of New Orleans, our fourth consecutive trip to help Katrina’s victims.
Parish Companionship with St. Anna's in New Orleans
