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Reopening Survey

Your Voice Matters

Hello ACC family and friends! The Reopening Taskforce has been meeting regularly and would like to invite you to complete the following survey. Please click here. In line with medical guidance and governmental guidelines, we are prayerfully preparing to restart in-person worship services in September. As we carefully plan the logistics of this experience for our communit...

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Basse Visit Update

About 30 of us enjoyed an evening with Pastor Macklann and Rose on February 13th! We learned more about their church plant, training and mentoring program for future pastors and Christian school for Pre-schoolers 6thgrade.They brought letters from most of the children we wrote to for the December Christmas Advent project.Please stop by the information table to ask if your...

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Rebuilding Ms. Marita's Home with 91 Other Churches

About a month ago, I received an email from a Deacon from a small PCA church in the inner-city of New Orleans asking for financial help for one of their members who had a recent house fire. He shared that their mercy fund had been depleted (from multiple requests that come in weekly) and this need was too much for them to shoulder alone. The couple lives on a meager income...

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Helps Ministry Launch

The mission of the Helps Ministryis to provide and coordinate practical help for those who need it in a way that points them to Christ. This past Sunday we officially launched the Helps Ministry arm of the Diaconate. At the end of each service, we asked everyone to pull out their phone and fill out the Helps Survey or fill out the paper survey in the bulletin. Sixty peopl...

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Diaconate Commissioning Church Luncheon Remarks

Thank you everyone, thank you Diaconal team, for being willing to step forward in faith as a community to further our calling and mission from God. Our mission statement is to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ to our neighbors, to welcome them into loving community, and to equip them to glorify God. I want to share some snippets from my personal history as well as t...

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Life is Short

I began tutoring Louis* at the Variety Boys and Girls Club during the spring of 2016. What a joy it has been to watch him grow and progress academically, socially and spiritually in the last 1 ½ years! He didn't know his multiplication tables in the beginning, and now he knows them almost perfectly. His writing and spelling have consistently improved. AND I had the ...

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I Was a Stranger and You Invited Me In

At the ACC after-school tutoring program a few weeks ago Pastor David casually mentioned to me that he and Sobeyda were going to be hosting a refugee family from El Salvador. My heart jumped with excitement...what an opportunity for ACC to show the love of God! I also was encouraged by their willingness to share their living space with strangers, knowing they give so much ...

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