Help Support Lantern Light

31 chances to win

$10 for 1 ticket or $25 for 3 tickets

Please join us in supporting the mission of Lantern Light, Inc. and give yourself a chance to win over $1000 in cash prizes. Lantern Light was established in 2005 to provide services for the homeless and working poor in New Orleans. We continue this mission today with your support. Since Hurricane Katrina, our numbers have grown. We now serve lunch to 170-250 guests a day – Monday through Friday. In addition to meeting our guests basic needs we help them get birth certificates, state ID cards and some prescriptions. We also have a mail room if they need an address for receiving mail.

With your purchase of a raffle ticket in our Christmas Fund Raiser you will have 31 chances to win anywhere from $30 to $500 on a single day during the month of December 2015 (Calendar below tells how much on each day). Daily drawings take place at Lantern Light. Winning tickets are re-entered for all the remaining drawings. Everyone has 31 chances to win! Checks for the winning tickets will be mailed to the winners.  Entries received after Nov. 30, 2015 are allowed but are only entered into drawings held after the date of their receipt.

Each entry is $10 or $25 for 3 tickets. You may purchase tickets with the “BUY Now” button below or enter by mail. To enter by mail, download your entry form here. Please complete the ticket(s) attached and return it with your donation. Tickets purchased online will be filled out and placed in the drawing by Lantern Light.

Please make all checks payable to: Lantern Light  and mail to: 1802 Tulane Ave. New Orleans, LA 70112

For more information, phone (504)273-5573

THANK YOU

Please leave your phone number in the special instructions. If, when buying more than one ticket, you would like different names on the tickets, please enter the list of names in the special instructions too!

Read on for a few facts regarding Lantern Light Ministry.

COUNTDOWN TO LACE CURTAIN NIGHT

Become part of the International Irish Famine Commemoration this Friday

at the Irish Cultural Museum of New Orleans

In recognition of the International Irish Famine Commemoration the Irish Cultural Museum will host a fundraising event featuring food, history and music this Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. in the 900 block of Conti Street. Members of the Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Club will parade through the French Quarter at 5 p.m. to kick-off the Lace Curtain Night street event that will feature samplings of dishes from popular New Orleans restaurants. Guests will enjoy cuisine from K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, Le Foret, Reginelli’s, Dickie Brennan’s restaurants, Finn McCool’s, Drago’s, Parkway Bakery and Tavern, and others during the special heritage celebration.

The evening will include the premier of An Gorta Mór: the Great Hunger at the Irish Cultural Museum. At 6 p.m. visiting Irish Minister of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphries will officially open the exhibit, which was made possible through funding by the Emigrant Support Programme of Ireland. During the Famine Commemoration the museum will display a bronze sculpture by renowned Irish artist Rowan Gillespie, who executed the dramatic Famine memorial on the Custom House Quay in Dublin. Gillespie’s The Victim, on loan by Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, represents those who died from starvation and disease during the Irish Famine of 1845 to 1852. In recognition of historic and modern day hunger the Irish Cultural Museum will also feature a Hunger Awareness art exhibition.

     Highlighting the evening is a special performance by The Poor Clares, one of the city’s best known Irish bands who are reuniting in the Crescent City for the 2014 International Irish Famine Commemoration. Twenty years ago members Betsy McGovern, Patrick O’Flaherty, Justin Murphy and Beth Patterson brought the music of Ireland to New Orleans in a distinctive style that was said to mix County Down and deep down South. Lovers of Celtic music won’t want to miss this reunion of The Poor Clares.

Presented by the St. Patrick Foundation, a portion of the proceeds from Lace Curtain Night will benefit the Lantern Light ministry at the St. Joseph Rebuild Center, which provides food and assistance to the poor and homeless of New Orleans. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased in advance at www.icmnola.com or at the gate on the night of the event. For more information call 504-481-8593.For information on the International Irish Famine Commemoration in New Orleans November 6 – 9 visit www.ifnola2014.org.

Lantern Light will be selling Gumbo and Shepherd’s Pie. The income from the sale of these items will help us feed our daily guests.  For the past two weeks we have had over 200 daily for lunch.

We look forward to seeing you at the Irish Fest.

Last month we let you know of a way that individuals, organizations, and companies could donate a gift certificate, unique gift, or priceless item to attract bidders and help raise funds for their favorite non-profit organization. The program is put on by Gulf Coast Bank and Trust Company is called Auctions in August. As of 8/25/14, over $59,000 has been bid to help local charities.

Lantern Light Ministries has been named the benefactor of one item. Photography by Marianne Hawkins Sabrier has donated a photo session and a 16×24 inch fine art gallery wrapped canvas to one lucky high bidder. One hundred percent of the item proceeds will come to Lantern Light. You can find the item at http://auctionsinaugust.com/aaAuctionItem.asp and search for “Lantern Light Ministries” on the Charity drop down menu. You can take a look at Marianne’s work on her website here.

So if you’re in need of photography or know of someone who is, please consider bidding or passing this on to others who may also be interested. But hurry, the auction ends on 8/29/2014 at 8pm.