New Orleans, like many recent college graduates, needs direction.  Both the city and the graduate are poised to move onto better things but have so many questions - When? What? and Who will help?  How do we move on, rebuild, or restart our lives in a way Christ would want?

The New Orleans Fellows Program hopes to enable

young, Christian leaders to reshape New Orleans

in the image of God’s Kingdom. 

Young men and women with a heart for the city come to the New Orleans Fellows Program and, through work, study and prayer, learn to serve as an example, inspiration, mentor and friend to the struggling. 

In turn, the Fellows, themselves, will be transformed.  Instead of choosing the trappings of success, New Orleans Fellows choose to follow Christ and to serve others.  Learning to incorporate their passion for social justice and love of God into their adult lives, the Fellows leave with an understanding of how to navigate the difficulties of the real world without compromising their Christian values. See Colossians 1:10-13.

Further, individual transformation yields community transformation.  By having young urban-minded Christians serve New Orleans, the city and her residents will be renewed. See 1 Thes. 1 6-7.  For, we know transformed lives transform lives.