Whats Happening In Our World
Hands-On Sunday: Community Garden
📅 Sun, Mar 15 | 2–3 PM📍 The Commons at Micah 6:8 Mission
Join us for Hands-On Sunday, an intergenerational gathering led by Micah 6:8 Mission Youth Leader Molly. Participants of all ages—from youth to elders—will engage in community garden planting and hands-on activities.
✨ Open to youth, adults, families, and seniors
✨ Hands-on activities and group discussions
✨ Explore connections between environmental health and personal well-being
✨ Community building across generations
Micah 6:8 Mission is partnering with the McNeese State University Art Department Club to create a mosaic-style public art project from recycled and repurposed materials collected in April. Student artists and community members will collaborate on the installation, culminating in an Earth Day Extravaganza & Blessing of the Commons in April.
Community Connection Sunday: Green Infrastructure
📅 Sun, Mar 22 | 3 PM📍 Village Coffeehouse, Sulphur, LA
Join Micah 6:8 Mission for Community Connection Sunday, a gathering focused on green infrastructure and building stronger local communities. This event will feature a free grocery bag giveaway, emphasizing support for Sulphur residents, though all Southwest Louisiana community members are welcome. Attendees will also receive information about utility assistance for qualifying locals and a gift card, so be sure to share the word!
✨ Open to all Southwest Louisiana residents
✨ Learn about community-driven actions and local priorities
✨ Engage in conversations about environmental and health concerns
Look Ahead to Earth Month: This gathering will also highlight opportunities to participate in April’s environmental art and cleanup events, including sorting recovered materials and contributing to the “From Reclaimed to Renewed: Creation Art for The Commons” installation.
Community Voices Gardening & Green Spaces
📅 Thursday, Mar 26 | 5:30–7 PM
📍 Sulphur Library, 1160 Cypress St, Sulphur, LA
Join us for this SWLA Better Together session featuring Coterie Council & Community Voices as we focus on gardening, green spaces, and community collaboration. This is a chance for residents, neighbors, and advocates to come together, share ideas, and explore solutions to local environmental challenges.
✨ Open community discussion
✨ All Southwest Louisiana voices welcome
✨ Take actionable steps to improve and care for your community
Earth Month Connection: Learn how to support April’s community cleanup and art installation, including volunteering to help prepare materials and guide participants during the Earth Celebration on April 18.
DeQuincy Coterie (DQC)
📅 Fri, Mar 27 | 4:30–6 PM📍 DeQuincy Library – Community Room
Residents are invited to connect, share ideas, and collaborate on local health and environmental priorities. These gatherings foster community dialogue, intergenerational learning, and actionable planning for the issues that matter most to our neighborhoods.
✨ Open to all DeQuincy-area residents
✨ Discussion and collaboration
✨ Community-driven learning and connection
Earth Month Spotlight: DQC participants will receive information about the April 11 community trash pickup and how to join the “From Reclaimed to Renewed” public art project, a chance to combine hands-on environmental stewardship with creative expression.
Blessing of the Commons
Health and Environment Summit
We hosted our second annual Health and Environment summit in 2024, and it was a great success. We invited environmental lawyers, as well as local presenters, and a few from around the country to come and educate the community on a few different issues. We of course got some legal info on how we can take action, through the legal system, when we see violations. We also had Lori Cooke, Roishetta Ozane, Breon Robinson, Vickie Boothe, Matt Rota, James Hiatt, Debra Ramirez, Lois Malvo, and Gordon Pierce all gave very compelling and informative presentations on many different topics all revolving around protecting our air land and water rights.
Debra Ramirez speaking at HES 2024 
Debra Ramirez – Concerned Citizens of Lake Charles 
Lois Malvo – Fisherville Environmental Action Now 
James Hiatt – For A Better Bayou 
Lori Cooke – Louisiana Bucket Brigade 
Lori Cooke speaking at HES 2024 
Vickie Boothe – Fenceline Monitoring Workgroup Technical Team 
Matt Rota – Healthy Gulf
Earth Day Extravaganza
On or around Earth Day every year we hold our annual Earth Day Extravaganza, where we invite local performers, speakers, and vendors to join us in a day of celebrating the earth. We have live music, good food, some good performances which include the Sulphur Tor Color Guard, local speakers, a puppet show, butterfly release, and we even have a magician.
Trash pick-up
We truly believe in protecting our environment, and we prove it by getting people out in the streets of our neighborhoods and cleaning all the trash we can find. We’re dedicated with our continued efforts to keep southwest Louisiana as clean as possible, despite the continued pollution from the refineries.
