Historic Timeline
1992 |
Edmundite Missions Corps founded, year-long volunteer program for college graduates to serve in housing, education, recreation, and other outreach to poor communities. Edmundite priest assigned to St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, Marrero, LA. Father Paul McQuillen, S.S.E. assumes post at the church/school. |
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1994 |
Bishop Perry Middle School, New Orleans, opens, Catholic school provides small classes and individual attention to young male students from poor inner-city neighborhoods. Mary's Food and Fashion, Pine Apple, opens thrift Store and snack bar provides clothing, household accessories and low-cost meals in rural Wilcox County. |
1995 |
Edmundite priest assigned to St. Joseph's Parish, Tuskegee, Father Charles McNiece, S.S.E. assumes post at church/school. |
1997 |
Uniontown Community Center opens, Perry County, center provided adult day care for the elderly, hot lunch program and a clothing give-away opens. |
2000 |
Rebuilt Vredenburgh Community Center after its destruction by fire. |
2001 |
St. Peter Claver Church, New Orleans, named top parish in the U.S. Excellent Catholic Parishes by Paul Wilkes, names the church one of the top eight parishes in the country. |
2002 |
Missions helps found and support the Selma AIDS informational and referral office. |
2003 |
Bosco Food Kitchen in Selma, which serves meals to the hungry 365 days a year, serves its one-millionth meal. |
2004 |
Through a generous benefactor to the Missions, the Ana Maria Food Pantry opens in Pine Apple, providing the only source of nutritious food for the hungry poor in eastern Wilcox County. Hurricane Ivan roars through Selma and Wilcox County, damaging several Missions buildings and homes of those served by the ministry. |
2005 |
Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast, sending hundreds of homeless victims of the storm to the Selma community. The Bosco Food Kitchen offers two meals a day for several months to accommodate the need. The Missions offers refuge through emergency assistance and other ministries to the hurricane victims in its four service counties. The Lowndes County catholic Center reopens as the Good Shepherd Catholic Center offering a variety of educational and outreach programs to children and seniors, a food pantry and jail ministry. |
2006 |
A large expansion of the outreach center in Wilcox County at Pine Apple is built that includes a new Ana Maria Missions Kitchen, serving meals to the poor and the homebound, and an expansion of the Ana Maria Food Pantry. A laundromat was also added. |
