A sampling of my photojournalism work for the Tennessee Register:
St. Stephen Catholic Community in Old Hickory welcomed a large number new members into the church at the Easter Vigil on Saturday, March 31, 2018. 
St. Stephen Catholic Community in Old Hickory welcome a large number of new members into the church at the Easter Vigil on Saturday, March 31, 2018. 
About 1,800 middle school students and their chaperones attended the Holy Fire retreat event at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville on Satruday, Dec. 1, 2018. 
Dominican Sister Mary Diana Dreger, who is a medical doctor, talks with a patient at St. Thomas Family Health Center South in Nashville. 
Abby Eryan, a first-grade student at St. Edward School in Nashville, Tenn., gets a kiss from Tom the service dog March 6, 2019, who belongs to U.S. Army veteran Chris Stout, founder of the Veterans Community Project. 
A volunteer helps Samuel Roberts put together a train track at a free child care center at St. Stephen Church in Old Hickory, Tenn. 
Heba Ibrahim, 8, left, the youngest daughter in a family of Kurdish refugees, receives a rose from a friend of the family in Nashville. The girl’s family had been in Turkey after fleeing Syria’s civil war and was now relocating to the U.S. 
Children participating in Catholic Charities’ summer program for refugee youth play outside the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville. 
People attend a Feb. 1, 2017 vigil sponsored by the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition in Nashville in response to President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order suspending the entry of refugees into the United States for 120 days. 
Zach Wood, a participant in the Therapeutic Equine Assistance Method program, rides on a horse May 13, 2019, on the grounds of the First Presbyterian Church in Oak Hill, Tenn. The program is an ecumenical outreach ministry to serve adults who have disabilities and also to help veterans. 
Volunteers at the McGruder Family Resource Center in North Nashville, assisted neighbors affected by the tornado on Wednesday, March 3 with clothes, food, baby items, cleaning supplies, and hot meals. 
Holly Street in East Nashville was one of the hardest hit areas by the 2020 tornado. 
Lori and Jim Birckhead of Our Lady of the Lake Parish own By Faith Farm, with a mission of involving the community in sustainable agricultural practices
I had the opportunity to travel to Haiti in 2012 with the Parish Twinning Program of the Americas. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the trip:
Children and their families from all over Kenscoff, Haiti attended the Jean Paul II School 25th anniversary celebration. 
Children from Jean Paul II School in Kenscoff, Haiti rehearse for a parade and performance marking the 25th anniversary of the school’s founding. The students played on rented instruments and are looking for donations so they can continue learning music at school. 
Women wash clothes under a bridge in Kenscoff, Haiti. Clean water is a scarce resouce in Haiti. 
Jean Paul II students drum during the school celebration. 
A Jean Paul II student dressed as an angel for the school’s anniversary celebration. 
A Haitian farmer balances a sack of recently harvested crops while walking in the mountain village of Furcy, Haiti. Haitians are struggling to reclaim their agricultural economy after years of unchecked deforestation and foreign food imports have left it in shambles. 
Fog rolls in across the mountains of rural Haiti. 
The beautiful, calm Caribbean waters offer a stark contrast to the post-earthquake chaos of Port-au-Prince. 
Personal Photography
Theresa Laurence 