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Andrew shiira new orleans5/6/2023 Until 1830, the majority of its residents still spoke French.Īt the start of the Civil War, New Orleans was the largest city in the Confederacy, but it was only a year until Union troops, having captured its downriver defenses, took the city unopposed. Thousands of enslaved people were sold in its markets, but its free Black community thrived. Its port shipped the produce of much of the nation’s interior to the Caribbean, South America and Europe. New Orleans in the 1800sĭuring the first half of the 19th century, New Orleans became the United States’ wealthiest and third-largest city. The final battle of the War of 1812 was fought in defense of New Orleans Colonel Andrew Jackson led a coalition of pirates, formerly enslaved African Americans and Tennessee Volunteers to defeat a British force outside the city. In 1803 Louisiana reverted to the French, who sold it to the United States 20 days later in the Louisiana Purchase. The city was ravaged by fires in 17 and rebuilt in brick with buildings and a cathedral that still stand today. For 40 years New Orleans was a Spanish city, trading heavily with Cuba and Mexico and adopting the Spanish racial rules that allowed for a class of free people of color. In 17 France signed treaties ceding Louisiana to Spain. New Orleans Under Spanish Rule and the Louisiana Purchase The oldest krewes (social clubs) that host New Orleans’ many Mardi Gras parades and balls were formed before 1860. The same year a hurricane destroyed most of the new city, which was rebuilt in the grid pattern of today’s French Quarter.ĭid you know? New Orleans’ Carnival traditions have centuries-old roots in French and Spanish Catholicism, as well as African and Native American traditions. In 1722 he transferred Louisiana’s capital from Biloxi. The expeditions of De Soto (1542) and La Salle (1682) passed through the area, but there were few permanent white settlers before 1718, when the governor of French Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, founded the city of Nouvelle-Orléans on the first crescent of high ground above the Mississippi’s mouth. At Lakeshore Church, we believe the gospel has the power to transform a city one person at a time.The first known residents of the New Orleans area were the Native Americans of the Woodland and Mississippian cultures. Our desire is to implement strategies that focus on gospel proclamation and demonstration within a neighborhood/community context. Lakeshore Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who manifest God’s kingdom by loving Jesus, leading well, and living the gospel. Our desire is to plant a gospel-centered, multi-ethnic, cultural, and generationally-led church that mobilizes its members to engage New Orleans through their spheres and platforms of influence as they love Jesus, lead well, and live the gospel. The vision of Lakeshore Church is simple: to keep the Gospel central in everything. We believe the gospel is the “power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes.” We want to saturate the city and the world with the good news by proclaiming it with clarity and love, and by practicing good deeds that glorify Jesus.We believe that the hope for New Orleans, often called the “The City That Care Forgot”, and for the nations is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.In the words of the Apostle Paul, we believe that the Gospel is of “first importance.” We should constantly reflect on it, and base our lives and ministries around it. We desire to be a blessing to the city and to the nations with our actions and our words. We believe this emphasis on the simplicity and power of the Gospel will also help us be unified. We refuse to argue over trivial matters because of the urgency of getting the Gospel to the nations.We can agree to disagree over matters that are not of first importance. In creation, God created humanity in his image. We believe that God sent Christ to redeem us that is to rescue us from our sin by dying in our place.But sin entered the world and now all people have fallen short of their purpose as God’s image bearers: to glorify God. We believe that we will one day gather with every tribe and tongue to glorify Jesus in the new heavens and new earth, restoring all things forever.Now God is at work transforming his redeemed into the image of Christ, who glorify Him. We are committed to keeping our ministry simple. We will avoid offering numerous programs. We will meet weekly for worship to know Christ and exalt Him. We will also meet weekly in sermon-based small groups for spiritual growth, community, and ministry. And we will equip covenant members to live as everyday missionaries locally and globally as they LOVE Jesus, LEAD well, and LIVE the gospel.
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