The Liberal Catholic Apostolic Church
An independent Catholic church in the liberal tradition

The work of the Foundation is currently in development. It will be established to cover a range of charitable activities in keeping with the Church's commission to continue Archbishop Nicholson's work and ministry.

Further details will follow in due course.

Lazarus House

Lazarus House is a project being developed in collaboration with the Artists for Recovery. It will be a residence for persons undergoing serious emotional distress and extreme states of mind that respects their self determination, autonomy, and provides them a safe, supportive environment where they can safely reduce dependency on psychiatric drugs and be able to develop enhanced resiliency and develop new and more productive ways of living.

Lazarus House will incorporate medical, nutritional, spiritual, and emotional needs and promote an atmosphere of equality and respect.

Lazarus House will be located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and will be similar in scope to the highly successful Soteria poject developed by the late Dr. Loren Mosher, M.D. which had a "24 hour a day application of interpersonal phenomenologic interventions by a nonprofessional staff, usually without neuroleptic drug treatment, in the context of a small, homelike, quiet, supportive, protective, and tolerant social environment."

Lazarus House is currently in need of financial support in order to be able to acquire a residence. If you are interested in supporting this important and vital project, please contact Connie Shuster at Artists for Recovery.
E-mail Connie Shuster

or contact Dr. Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D.
E-mail Dr. Edmunds

Our goal is to encourage community based alternatives for emotionally distressed individuals can feel safe, supported, and develop a greater sense of meaning while attempting to resolve challenges and obstacles. "Recovery" in our view is not being a lifelong consumer of psychotropic drugs, but actually being able to journey through and resolve those concerns that led one to distress.

Though many of these individuals come to us with labels of 'schizophrenia' or 'psychotic disorders', we do not seek to look at these individuals through the lens of a label, but as persons needing to be heard and understood.

We work in collaboration with the person's physician in the withdrawal process from psychiatric drugs and provide the support and counsel to be able to cope through their extreme emotional states and crisis.

We are seeking to be able to serve disadvantaged individuals who because of financial circumstances are often left with few options and often are forced or coerced into psychiatric 'treatments' that do more harm than good. We welcome and appreciate persons willing to support our efforts through their time or charitable contributions.

For further details see: http://www.geocities.com/stnektarios/DISTRESS5.html

The Mathew Center is the first of its kind to be devoted to research within the ISM and to bringing otherwise unavailable historical texts to the public. Currently the Center has access to a substantial physical library of material of a historical, liturgical and discursive nature which is in the process of digitisation.

The website for the Mathew Center is here.

The Romantic Discoveries Recordings project is a cultural outreach that has as its aim the issue on CD of previously unrecorded nineteenth-century piano music. Drawing on an archive of several thousand works, many of which are rare and unknown even to scholars, a series of recordings of over 100 works has been issued and has reached a worldwide audience. The currently available CDs in the series include first recordings of several unfinished Beethoven sonatas and shorter pieces, as well as rediscoveries of lesser-known composers who were considered significant in their time.

The website for Romantic Discoveries Recordings is here.

The Henselt Library

Part of European-American University, the Henselt Library compliments the outreach of Romantic Discoveries Recordings by making several thousand scores of rare and unknown nineteenth-century piano music available online for free access worldwide. Its collection offers an opportunity to appreciate the extensive legacy of the development of the piano during one of its most dynamic and central periods.

The website for the Henselt Library is here.

External charitable projects endorsed by the Church

The Church asks visitors to its website to consider supporting these worthwhile projects.

Temenos Catholic Worker
Bishop River Sims ministers on the streets of San Francisco to homeless young people involved in prostitution and drug use. His hands-on work in exceptionally difficult circumstances changes lives and helps many who are seen as outside the boundaries of normal society. Please donate to support his work if you can.

Temenos website

The Order of Christian Workers
Mendicant, interdenominational monks, nuns and Companions undertaking a wide range of ministry to those at the margins in Texas. Please support these dedicated volunteers with a donation if you can.

OCW website